In honor of open enrollment season, Maggie sat down with her friend and healthcare advocate, Nina Serrianne. They talked about why it's so important for people to have health insurance, what the options are, and how to make sure you get the plan that is right for you.

Resources:

  • Healthcare.gov
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Medicaid - for low-income folks
  • Medicare - for elderly folks
  • Junk Plans -
  • Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson
  • Hyde Amendment
  • Contraception mandate
  • Congressional Review Act (this has since failed in the Senate)
  • Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019 (HR3) - Call your Congressperson!
    • How to figure out how to contact your rep:
      • https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
      • https://www.callmycongress.com/
      • https://5calls.org/
  • Access Is Affordability Act
  • What the Health podcast
  • Kaiser Family Healthcare Q&A

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Since 2002, Nina Esperanza Serrianne has advocated on the local, state, and national level for reproductive health, rights, and justice; gender equity; LGBTQ rights; and ending gender-based violence. Nina is the Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity Policy analyst at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and among other issues works to protect Title X, Medicaid coverage, the Affordable Care Act, and contraceptive access for Latinxs living in the U.S.

Some highlights of her career include working in the office of Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), working for Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson, and publishing her first book, America in the Nineties, a survey of the policies and politics of the decade, published by Syracuse University Press in 2015.

Follow Nina on Twitter to stay informed.

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