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Really don't know. >> whether she is with cowin or not, mcbride will soon leave jail and must again attempt to control her drug addiction in president order to raise her two children. >> you're going to have a seat at the usual chair to your left. >> her case manager has known her for two years, a span in which mcbride has been in and out of santa rita on various parole violations. >> miss mcbride has come into custody each time a different persona, a different host of problems, a different level of motivation. and how long that motivation is sustained is questionable. >> in order to take adva...

Day tomorrow and the next day and the day after that as we can. you know, what's interesting is insurers and pharmacies go through this every year. they went through this before the affordable care act was ever passed because people change policies, because seniors change programs in the part d program. they know how to handle this. we've worked very closely with them because we know they'll be a spotlight tomorrow. we don't want anybody to have problems but we know some people will. that's why we've set up a toll-free number. 1-800-318-2596. i want to repeat that one more time. it's 1-800-318...

And that was about a week ago i was finally able to do it. and it is still sitting in a quu somewhere. case worker will verify this information is okay. when that happens i have permission to go through and pick out my health insurance. >> wait a minute, let me get this straight. you have done all the necessary things on healthcare.gov to enroll in the affordable care act to get coverage and you don't know at this point if your enrollment has actually activated coverage. so you are you still waiting to hear from insurer? >> i do not have health insurance. it has not been activated yet. so, wha...

>> and holly, let's talk caseload when it comes to child protective services. i know i've covered these stories in multiple states, and it almost seems like this is a problem across the country. >> it absolutely is a problem. i can guarantee you when they start to look into it, this caseworker probably had anywhere between two to three times the amount of cases that they are supposed to be able to cover. it's kind of the same thing we see with any public agency, you know, you look at a public defender's office, rosa, you look at these social service agencies. they are funded by taxpayer dollar...

Their jobs over this? because it almost seems like no one knew where this child was, the parts parents obviously di not, and state services obviously were not checking in with these kids. >> there is a -- >> there's an old saying that the fish stinks from the head down, and i can tell you as a person who has worked in foster care for a very long time, that the higher-ups basically are praying every day that something like this doesn't happen, because they know that there are so many holes in the system. i think governor patrick himself has said there's going to be a bigger investigation into t...