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Boston Calling: The Obamacare Learning Curve

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09/11/2013

The Obamacare Learning Curve

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, The Obamacare Learning Curve

Efforts to help immigrants sign up for a new affordable healthcare plan in the US

The Affordable Care Act is designed to change give all Americans access to healthcare - but many immigrants remain unaware of the new programme.

Affordable healthcare has long been out of reach for many Americans. The Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law by President Obama, is designed to change that. But despite the publicity surrounding the recent roll-out of “Obamacare", many immigrants remain unaware of the new programme. We hear how outreach workers in some immigrant communities are trying to change that. 

We also hear about why some Mexicans living along the Mexican side of the US border want to secede, sample a new documentary on the history of film that doesn’t focus on Hollywood, and get a first-hand account of pop artist Andy Warhol’s 1976 visit to Tehran.

(Photo: Riffat Rahman, a healthcare advocate, conducts outreach about the Affordable Care Act in a Los Angeles neighborhood called Little Bangladesh. Credit: South Asian Network)

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