Línea Abierta : HEALTH ACTION 2013: DAY ONE: HOUR 2.




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Summary: HEALTH ACTION 2013: DAY ONE: HOUR 2. Health advocates are announcing "the biggest push for outreach and enrollment in health insurance in the nation's history". This edition includes a conversation with a top health official about the deadlines coming up for the Affordable Care Act in healthcare markets, subsidies for working families, the new beneficiaries of Medicaid, and those who could end up without coverage because of a mistake when the law was written. Also, interviews with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, about her own experiences with healthcare, and with a promotor of immigrant rights about immigration reform and how it could affect health reform. Guests: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justice, United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., www.supremecourt.gov (pretaped interview); Vanessa Cárdenas, Director of Progress 2050, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., www.americanprogress.org ; María Gonzalez Albuiexech, Communications and Markets Director, Healthcare for All Massachusetts, Boston, MA.