In This Isssue

This is a very, very important week for people purchasing health insurance on HealthCare.gov. If you want your insurance to begin on January 1, 2015, you only have 6 days left to buy it.

To help you in your decision-making, we run a Q&A by our friends at Kaiser Health News that answers several readers' questions about plans, premiums and provider networks. We also continue with a series about how the Affordable Care Act has failed in Mississippi.

The HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents has updated its guidelines for the use of ARVs in people living with HIV-1, who are co-infected with HCV and in treatment.

And as our nation grapples with the value of Black people's lives and racial bias in law enforcement, the courts, and the criminal justice system, Colorlines reports on journalist Maya Schenwar's book, "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better."

Yours in the struggle,

Phill