Covered California hits the road to promote health plan
His goal: to fight a big change in federal health policy change that allows people to skip health insurance without paying a penalty next year.
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He noted that those who have been covered by the policies his organization sells saw a total of 22,000 broken or dislocated arms or shoulders and more than 50,000 cancer diagnoses last year, hinting at the "life can change in an instant" theme of this year's tour.
"Not one of those people that got a cancer diagnosis, not one of those people that broke a leg thought, 'oh, this is the year that I'm going to break a leg, this is the year I'm going to get cancer," Lee said.
Before his speech, Lee said that his organization projects that the Trump administration's decision in 2017 to do away with the Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate," the requirement that most Americans must buy health insurance if they don't have it or pay a penalty, is going away in 2018.
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