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Outside of open enrollment, a special enrollment period allows you to enroll in an ACA-compliant plan (on or off-exchange) if you experience a qualifying life event.

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Mary Lou Retton’s health scare story included some important lessons for consumers, many of whom may assume that the celebrity’s health scare is a sign of barriers to affordable health coverage.
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Stay calm and find another MNsure plan photo

Stay calm and find another MNsure plan

September 18, 2014 – When the dust settled on the screeching headlines … of impending MNSure doom … the reality was "thank goodness there's an exchange and…

‘Bros’ on board – and other promising signs photo

‘Bros’ on board – and other promising signs

May 11, 2014 – With 8 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare's exchanges – 28 percent of them young adults – the collapse of the Affordable Care Act…

‘Health insurance’ that is too good to be true photo

‘Health insurance’ that is too good to be true

May 8, 2014 – "Among the plans available outside of open enrollment, there are less expensive options – that provide very little in the way of coverage…

Exchanges: too big to succeed? photo

Exchanges: too big to succeed?

April 13, 2014 – This is the time for brainstorming, but how much are we willing to change? Could we revamp the whole process if it meant a more…

March ACA enrollment madness? photo

March ACA enrollment madness?

March 27, 2014 – "When you hear a final tally next month of the millions who have signed up for coverage through a public exchange, know that millions more…

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’ photo

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’

March 27, 2014 – "The vast majority of our clients are thrilled to find out they qualify for subsidies. But to some people, the premium tax credits feel…

‘I don’t need health insurance!’ photo

‘I don’t need health insurance!’

March 24, 2014 – “… And if you’re thinking “well, that would never happen to me …” consider all of the other ways that you could wake up…

Cruel irony: millions too poor for Medicaid photo

Cruel irony: millions too poor for Medicaid

March 20, 2014 – In states that have not expanded Medicaid, the people who most desperately need help paying for health insurance – those with the lowest…

Colorado: ‘battening down the hatches’ photo

Colorado: ‘battening down the hatches’

March 19, 2014 – Six of the country's most successful state-run exchanges have overcome technological hurdles, dealt with massive volume, created innovative…

Enrollment: ‘Beating the clock’ isn’t enough photo

Enrollment: ‘Beating the clock’ isn’t enough

March 17, 2014 – With just two weeks remaining before the window slams shut on the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period, unquestionably, the best…

Shhh! The ‘secret’ that slashes health costs photo

Shhh! The ‘secret’ that slashes health costs

March 16, 2014 – Lost in a lot of the political rhetoric is a simple fact about being covered: When you have health insurance, you save money every time you…

ACA’s surprisingly successful exchanges photo

ACA’s surprisingly successful exchanges

March 12, 2014 – If North Carolina were pulling up the enrollment rear, it probably wouldn't surprise anyone. The state has a Republican Governor and…