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State Insurance Regulators Warn of Obamacare Scams
By Kenny Goldberg Obamacare kicks off in a big way Oct. 1. That’s when the state’s online health insurance exchange known as Covered California opens for business. Believe it or not, scam artists are already in the game. Obamacare requires all Americans to have health insurance by Jan. 1. Californians can shop for plans and…
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Cindy Marten On Common Core, Testing, New Funding Formula
By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh, and Peggy Pico San Diego’s new school superintendent is not just overseeing her first year running the county’s largest school district. She is also overseeing San Diego Unified School District’s transition to the new Common Core education standards. Plus, new guidelines will change how school testing is done. This school…
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For Refugee Doctors, Journey Back to Practicing Medicine Is the Longest
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Najwan Al Ani sits in her El Cajon apartment and flips through a tattered study guide for the first phase of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. She used the workbook to study for and pass the test in 2011, and now it’s…
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Health Exchanges Open for Enrollment Next Week
By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Click here to listen to Speak City Heights reporter Megan Burks on KPBS Midday Edition. It’s been a long wait for both supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act. But the main provisions of Obamacare are about to be rolled out to the public. A week…
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Number of Undocumented Immigrants In U.S. May Have Grown
By Adrian Florido Researchers have a new estimate for the number of immigrants living in the country illegally. It is Pew Research Center that is responsible for the number we all cite when talking about the number of unauthorized immigrants currently in the U.S.: 11.2 million. But Tuesday, Pew senior demographer Jeffrey Passel said that…