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Chat: What do you want to know about the Affordable Care Act?
Alondra Manzanarez and her father David wait for care at the South Central Family Health Center. They do not have insurance and have been coming to the center for three years.
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Do the details of the Affordable Care Act still have you scratching your head? Have questions about how it will affect you?
Join us June 29 at 1 p.m. PDT for a live chat with KPCC health care reporter Stephanie O'Neill and Kavita Patel M.D. of UCLA to gain insight into this complex law and have your pressing questions answered.
Panelists
Kavita Patel, board-certified internal medicine physician, former director of policy for the White House Office of Public Engagement & Intergovernmental Affairs, where she played a key role in designing the health care reform legislation and adjunct assistant clinical professor at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine
Sponsor
Stephanie O'Neill, health care reporter for Southern California Public Radio
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