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Are You Exempt from Obamacare?

Today is the last day to start an application for 2014 insurance under the Obamacare laws. Todays roundup of stories starts with answering the question “are you exempt from Obamacare” laws? Being exempt means you will not owe fines if you do not secure health insurance.

The following story is a report on recruiting Obamacare signups by the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. The last two stories include a heartwarming story of a couple that got insurance just in time, and a report on the threat by Hobby Lobby to drop health insurance for employees.

Are you exempt from Obamacare?

By: Melissa Gundersen
EL PASO, Texas — As thousands of people in the Borderland rush to buy a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act by Monday’s looming deadline, there are some people who will be off the hook.

Interest in health care surges as enrollment deadline nears

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius speaks to the media Saturday as people (in the foreground) sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act at an event held in the Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Miami.

Couple tells of signing up for health insurance just in time

DECATUR – At age 55, Lloyd Turner has been paying for health insurance since he was a teenager.

“We have paid health insurance to somebody every since we’ve been working,” Turner said, referring to Shawn, his wife of 35 years.

Why dropping health insurance is no solution for Hobby Lobby

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