Health secretary urges Texans to sign up for health insurance

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March 20--FORT WORTH -- At a time when nearly one quarter of all Texans do not have health insurance, U.S. Secretary of Heath and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius came to town Thursday to encourage residents to sign up for health insurance before the March 31 deadline.

"Everything is bigger in Texas," she said during a press conference at Tarrant County College's south campus. "Unfortunately, the number of uninsured is bigger in Texas.

"Twenty-three percent of Texans have no health insurance at all."

That's why she -- and local leaders including U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, state Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, Tarrant County Commissioner Roy C. Brooks and TCC Chancellor Erma C. Johnson Hadley-- spoke out Thursday, encouraging Texans to beat the deadline and sign up for the Affordable Care Act before the end of the month.

Officials are holding several enrollment events throughout the Metroplex in the coming days to help residents enroll.

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1. I wished they would have started this sooner.

Not only do you have to sign up by the end of this month, your first premium payment (if you have one) also needs to be paid for.

There should have been commercials and other advertising to let Texans know since our repub. state government is insanely anti-ACA.