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Emily Bazar of the California Healthcare Foundation Center for Health Reporting joins the show for her regular explainer of the Affordable Care Act, Ask Emily.
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Emily Bazar of the California Healthcare Foundation Center for Health Reporting joins the show for her regular explainer of the Affordable Care Act, Ask Emily.

Emily Bazar of the California Healthcare Foundation Center for Health Reporting joins the show for her regular explainer of the Affordable Care Act, Ask Emily.

We've talked so much about the state-run health insurance exchanges, and all the issues associated with them. In California the website is called Covered California, but that's just one piece of Obamacare.

There's also the expansion of Medicaid, the public insurance option for low-income residents, which has ballooned since Obamacare began.