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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Healthcare Deadline, Goodbye Hobie & Spring Cleaning

Registration ends for the Affordable Care Act, spring cleaning, remembering surfer Hobie Alter, and our weekly politics roundup.

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By Madeleine Brand • Mar 31, 2014 • 51m Listen

Today is the deadline to sign up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. We get the latest on who’s signing up and who isn’t. Plus, we look at the ongoing politics of Obamacare and the other hot button beltway issues in our Monday political roundup. We also say goodbye to Hobie Alter, who changed the face of surfing as we know it. And we talk to a woman who’s willing to roll up her sleeves and help you find the best way to live in a cleaner home.

Banner Image: Fifty-four-years-old Natalia Pollack (L), uninsured since 1999, is helped to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, by Carlos Tapia, a certified application councilor at a Single Stop USA site at West Side Campaign Against Hunger in New York City, March 31, 2014. President Barack Obama's embattled U.S. healthcare law, having survived a rollout marred by technology failures, reaches a milestone on Monday with the end of its first enrollment wave, and with the administration likely to come close to its goal of signing up 7 million people in private health insurance. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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    Madeleine Brand

    Host, 'Press Play'

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