In This Issue

On Sunday the health care marketplace at Healthcare.gov closed for this year. We thank all of you who helped people connect with health insurance and trust that you signed up for the coverage you need.

Recently President Obama released his fiscal year 2016 budget proposal. We begin this issue with a fact sheet that highlights the budget's investment in domestic HIV/AIDS activities across federal departments and agencies.

The CDC has just released the next phase of the national Know More Hepatitis campaign to encourage everyone born from 1945-1965, a high risk group, to get tested for Hepatitis C.

On February 7th National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day marked the one-year anniversary of the AIDS.gov Black Voices blog. We run a list of topics that Black Voices bloggers have covered.

In the waning days of this year's open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, Florida had enrolled more people for health insurance than any other state. Our friends at Kaiser Health News explain how this Republican-controlled state has turned into such a success for Obamacare.

Finally, we run the next to last installment of our series about how the Affordable Care Act unfolded in Mississippi.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill