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RALEIGH · January 28, 2021—North Carolinians have a new opportunity to enroll in health insurance for 2021 on HealthCare.gov, but only for a limited time. This new special open enrollment period starts February 15, 2021, and ends May 15, 2021.   With job losses continuing to mount amid the COVID-19 resurgence, and millions of people having lost their job-based health insurance since the start of this public health and economic crisis, the White House has opened up HealthCare.gov to give people who need health insurance a new opportunity to get covered, but they must act...

Those who missed the opportunity to sign up for Obamacare last December will soon have another chance to enroll, and that means 650,000 more North Carolinians could have health insurance.

Unsplash Conover homeschooling mom, Jessica Frierson, remembers last July 4 weekend well. That was when two of her daughters started to complain their throats hurt. Frierson thought it was just the dry air. “One by one, the other children started getting it,” she says. It turned out to be COVID-19. “My 4-year-old and my 8-year-old were pitiful, they would lie on the floor and cry, just sob ." Soon, all six children got the virus. Then her husband was admitted to the hospital with double pneumonia after he tested positive. Frierson took care of everyone … until one day last August. Fri...