Schools Help Families Enroll in Covered California, Medi-Cal

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A parent talks to a health care enrollment specialist at a Sacramento school district health insurance sign-up event. Photo courtesy of All In For Health/The Children’s Partnership

By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource

With huge numbers of California children still uninsured, schools are beginning to take the lead in letting families know that affordable health care coverage is available.

In school libraries and courtyards from Sacramento to Los Angeles and beyond, trained enrollment counselors have been invited to set up folding tables, commandeer desk space and corral parents before the Feb. 15 sign-up deadline for Covered California, the state’s online health insurance marketplace created under the federal Affordable Care Act.

Read the complete story at EdSource.
 

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