Florida tops nation in Obamacare enrollment
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31.
Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained so-called Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Access to quality, affordable health care is essential - especially as we tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a prepared statement. Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids & Families, which works to sign up people for insurance, attributed the success to increased awareness of coverage options.
The claim: A homeless facility in San Diego was closed to shelter migrants
A viral image of a purported homeless shelter in San Diego is being shared on social media alongside the claim that it was recently shut down to move in migrants. Homeless shelter in San Deigo (sic) is being closed to US Citizens and opened to put iLLEGALS in it, reads a March 29 screenshot of another Facebook post.
Accompanying the text is an alleged image of the homeless shelter. Outrageous, the user captioned the post, which has over 1,000 shares.
In a similar version of the claim, a user shared a text post that reads, San Diego just kicked out 1400 homeless people to shelter illegals.Any more questions?? Another user claimed in a post with 1,500 shares that the alleged eviction of homeless people took place at the San Diego Convention Center.
The Biden administration has extended the enrollment period by three months, until Aug. 15, as part of the effort to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 500,000 people nationally have signed up for Obamacare through March 31 since the special enrollment period began. Of those, more than 146,000 were in Florida.
Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31.
Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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