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The ACA Remains in Place; 2017 Open Enrollment ends January 31

· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

The Affordable Care Act is still in place for 2017, and as our friends at the NC Justice Center remind us, nothing has changed for this year. Plans, prices, deadlines, and requirements to have coverage are the same.

The deadline for open enrollment is January 31. To get free, expert help enrolling, visit Keep NC Covered or call 1-855-733-3711.

Please continue to contact our Senators and Congressional Representatives to let them know that health care matters to North Carolinians. Those determined to undo programs that save people’s lives want to believe they have a mandate to do so. By speaking up, we make it clear they do not.

The Council is a part of a coalition of organizations working to keep desperately needed health care provisions fully in place and to expand Medicaid. The most vulnerable among us would also be the most harmed by changes under consideration. Too many are already suffering. Let our elected officials know that affordable health care that is available to everyone is a moral obligation.

 

 

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.