EFOF News Features

Free Help with Healthcare Enrollment

Publish by 20 WCJB-TV February 3, 2015 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The second enrollment period to sign up for Obamacare ends in two weeks. Getting help with enrollment is as easy as a phone call. New data shows the Sunshine State is leading the country in healthcare enrollment – more than 1.2…...

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Programs Offer Assistance With Signing Up for Health Insurance

By Brooke Baitinger, WUFT-FM January 30, 2015 Farah Marcellus traveled half an hour from her home in Starke, Florida to the Millhopper Branch Library in Gainesville to receive help signing up for health insurance. Closer health insurance enrollment options were available to the 37-year-old, but on Jan. 22 she drove the longer distance to meet with a…...

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Uninsured get Help Signing Up for Health Insurance at Wooly

By Kendall Prior, The Independent Florida Alligator January 26, 2015 Uninsured members of the community were able to compare medical insurance options and enroll online at The Wooly over the weekend. Enroll America, The Links Inc. Gainesville chapter and the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida held the event Saturday to help…...

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Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Going Well in Jacksonville, Advocates Say

By John Burr, Jacksonville Business Journal January 23, 2015 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell stood Friday afternoon in the expansive donated storefront in Regency Square Mall urging people in Jacksonville to sign up for the Affordable Care Act. As of Jan. 16, almost 1.3 million people in…...

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ACA Enrollment Event Set for Saturday

Published by The Gainesville Sun January 21, 2015 Health care navigators, insurance brokers and insurance agents will be on hand Saturday to help people without healthcare coverage enroll for insurance through an Affordable Care Act plan. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Wooly, 20 N.…...

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ACA Enrollment

By Nicholas X. Duran, Miami Herald January 21, 2015 The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board approved a partnership with Enroll America to help families sign up for health insurance. When the marketplace first opened in 2013, privacy concerns were a major topic in the news. So much so that the…...

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Epilepsy Foundation of Florida Holding Office Hours for Insurance Enrollment

Published by Action News Jax January 12, 2015 The Epilepsy Foundation of Florida (EFOF), a state licensed and federally certified provider of in-person Navigation assistance for Floridians wanting to shop and enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace, will be holding open office hours throughout the state this week. February 15…...

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2.6M Hispanics Sign Onto Obamacare Dropping Uninsured Rate 7.7 Percent; Florida Signees Lead Nation

By Daniel Chang, Bradenton Herald January 14, 2015 With a month remaining to sign up for a health plan through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, Florida leads the 37 states using the federally run exchange in the number of people who selected a plan or were automatically re-enrolled, the…...

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Free Help Enrolling in Health Coverage at Local Libraries

Published by The Gainesville Sun January 6, 2015 A certified HealthCare Navigator will be available at six Alachua County Library District locations through Feb. 15 to provide information about health insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act as well as assist with signing up for health coverage. Anyone wishing…...

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Florida Lidera en el Numero de Personas Inscritas en el Obamacare

By Nicholas Nehamas, El Nuevo Herald January 1, 2015 Más de 670,000 floridanos se han inscrito para recibir cobertura de salud en el 2015 bajo la Ley de Atención Asequible de Salud (ACA), la mayor cantidad en cualquier estado que esté usando el mercado federal, según datos federales dados a…...

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