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   September 2015

Taking a deeper dive: Health care Navigators seek the uninsured in Season 3

The first two years of helping uninsured people enroll in affordable health insurance will be hard to beat. In the first year alone, the number of uninsured adults (under age 65) dropped by 38 percent in King County. That’s four percent more than the rest of the state — and more than in all but one of the other 49 states.

Public Health’s enrollment team at Southcenter Mall during Season 2

Now, Public Health—Seattle & King County will refine its strategies to reach more of the uninsured, under a renewed contract as a Lead Navigator Organization throughWashington Healthplanfinder, the state’s health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.     READ MORE>>>

Additional Headlines

• Some health experts say the USA hasn't learned key lessons from Ebola experience
• Flu vaccine promises to be far more effective this year
• Dramatic Decrease In Number Of Uninsured Adults In King County
• Food trucks are served a strict menu of health rules to roll in King County
• Schools, Birth Control, and Parental Consent
• Food truck tied to E. coli outbreak plans to reopen Thursday
• Doctor shares 'unique and bizarre' medical device collection
• Eastgate Public Health program receives national recognition