In This Issue

If you haven't done so already, there are only 26 days left to purchase insurance on the federal health insurance marketplace at Healthcare.gov. Time to get moving.

We continue our series on the challenges the Affordable Care Act is facing in Mississippi.

As we count down to the end of open enrollment, AIDS.gov reports on the work of several Champions for Coverage, organizations that work to get the word out to their communities and educate people about the Marketplace, as well as about the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinators' role in implementing the Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis.

This tax-filing season is the first that will require people to figure out how the Affordable Care Act impacts them, especially those who were uninsured for all or part of the year or received a premium tax credit. Our friends at Kaiser Health News help.

Over the past year we've run several installments of Colorlines' Life Cycles of Inequity series exploring the ways in which inequity shapes the lives of Black men. Here we share a video titled Early Mortality, which includes several Black men talking about being diagnosed with HIV.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill