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Campaign underway to educate unisured about health insurance options

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published August 19, 2013 at 6:46 AM CDT

One-fifth of Arkansans do not have health insurance. Starting January first, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will require all Americans to have insurance. A public education campaign has been set up statewide to inform the 500,000 uninsured Arkansans about what their options are for health insurance. KASU's Johnathan Reaves tells more.

More information about health insurance options can be foundhere.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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