Tech Firms Rush to Build Health Exchanges Before Deadline

Note to Self | Sep 25, 2013

The Affordable Care Act has been contentious, confusing and abstract, but that might change on October 1 when states are required to launch websites where people can chose among different health plans.

When the sites go live, it will be the first time millions of Americans will come into direct contact with Obamacare.

Eric Molinksy reports on the last minute rush to meet the deadline, not only from the companies building the exchanges, but from insurance companies as well.

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'It's chaos': LIRR commuters face shutdown, workarounds on first weekday of strike

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The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore

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On an off-Broadway stage, actors bring immigrant stories alive and spark public debate

Immigrants' stories have been unfolding on an off-Broadway stage in an uncommon way. One is of a doctor in her 40s who fled Zimbabwe. Another featured a Colombian woman who regretted leaving her homeland for the United States. A third entered into a marriage of convenience with an American after overstaying her visa, and then suffered a violent assault in the subway.