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Self-Employed & ACA


Calvin W. Goings Regional Administrator Calvin W. Goings

Self-Employed? Sign Up for Health Care Coverage by March 31st

With only a couple weeks to go during the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period, now is the time for self-employed business owners to sign up for a plan.

With new Health Insurance Marketplaces (also referred to as Exchanges) open, self-employed business owners and other consumers can purchase private insurance coverage from a range of options and depending on income and residency, potentially qualify for additional subsidies like Medicaid or tax credits.

Coming up, there are some important dates self-employed business owners need to know if they want to sign up for coverage for this year.

Open enrollment for 2014 coverage ends March 31, 2014.  An exception would include a qualifying life event that provides you with a special enrollment period such as marriage, divorce, birth or adoption of a child, or loss of a job.

If you don’t have health coverage in 2014, you may have to pay a penalty.

The next Open Enrollment period is proposed to begin on November 15, 2014 for health insurance coverage that begins January 1, 2015.

To browse coverage options, assess potential subsidies, and purchase your plan online through the individual marketplace, simply go to www.healthcare.gov.

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Invisible Man


The ACA’s Impact On African American Men Goes Unnoticed

We frequently use this space to highlight, explain, push back against, celebrate, or summarize issues that are discussed a lot in the news. Today, we want to do the opposite: call attention to an issue that is missing from our national dialogue.

It’s easy to get caught up in the daily political debates over the Affordable Care Act, but the stakes are higher than that: this is a real (and historic) law that has real impacts for real people. African American men, in particular, are a group that will benefit an enormous amount from the law. And they are a group for whom the current health system is failing. The infographic from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation below sheds light these challenges and on the importance of reducing disparities in health care access and building a culture of health among all Americans.

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the SBA and ACA


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Affordable Care Act 101 Webinar

 With new health insurance marketplaces open, the SBA and Small Business Majority are hosting a free Affordable Care Act 101webinar so small business owners can learn the basics of the Affordable Care Act and how they can enroll in health insurance marketplaces.

 Join us on Thursday at 2pm ET:

 February 27 | Click to Register

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A simple way to save lives


My name is Rory Graves, and I am from Bothell.

I know more than most how gun violence can affect families and the communities they live in.

I know, because my mom’s husband of more than 20 years shot her in 2012.

Thankfully she survived, but far too many women in Washington — and far too many women in the rest of America — aren’t so lucky.

But there’s something we can do THIS YEAR to help reduce the number of people murdered by their intimate partners, and that is to pass House Bill 1840.

The Washington state Senate will be holding committee hearings Wednesday — click here now to tell your senator to support this lifesaving bill.

Contact your senator today!

As a young mother, I had hoped to look to my mom for support and advice raising my kids. Instead, I spent more than a year helping her recover and lived in fear that her attacker would show up at my door to finish what he’d started — or, even worse, kill me and the rest of my family.

We know that the presence of a gun in domestic violence situations increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent — that’s right, 500 percent.

And House Bill 1840 would make it illegal for anyone subject to an order of protection to own a firearm.

Given the dysfunction in our state legislature, I figured there was no way this could pass — but the state House passed it unanimously last week. Now we have an incredible opportunity to make a simple change in the law — and save a lot of lives. My mom and I are going to Olympia to demand they support this legislation. Will you raise your voice with us?

Speak out now, and tell your state senator to support House Bill 1840.

We need to give police officers the tools they need to keep guns out of the hands of known domestic abusers.

Thank you for your support.

Rory Graves