California health exchange to hand out millions in outreach grants

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California health exchange to hand out millions in outreach grants

Tomorrow in Los Angeles, nearly $30 million worth of federal grants will be awarded to various California groups to help get out the word about health insurance.

CICERO, IL - FEBRUARY 22: Fourth-grader Arylu Paniagua, 9, receives an immunization shot from registered nurse Patricia McGleam in the Loyola Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, parked outside Columbus West Elementary School, February 22, 2005 in Cicero, Illinois. The Loyola Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, the first 'doctor's office on wheels' in the Midwest which provides free medical care to underserved and uninsured children, reached its 1,500 clinic visit in the community with this stop. The unit, the first if its kind in the world, serves as a national model for other children's hospitals and started traveling in the fall of 1998 with one community partner and now has 350 community partners in the Chicago area. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Tomorrow in Los Angeles, nearly $30 million worth of federal grants will be awarded to various California groups to help get out the word about health insurance.

Tomorrow in Los Angeles, nearly $30 million worth of federal grants will be awarded to various California groups to help get out the word about health insurance. The grants will be awarded by Covered California, the state's health care exchange which has been hard at work establishing a marketplace to compare coverage plans.

For more on this we're joined now by Dana Howard, a spokesperson with Covered California.