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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How repealing the individual mandate will affect California’s health care market

    The GOP tax bill would gut the individual mandate in Obamacare. While the individual mandate remains unpopular , health officials say it’s needed to make Obamacare work.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 19, 2017 • 1 min read

    The GOP tax bill would gut the individual mandate in Obamacare. While the individual mandate remains unpopular, health officials say it’s needed to make Obamacare work. California reduced the number of people living without insurance from about 16 percent three years ago to 7 percent now.

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Interspecies romance in ‘The Shape of Water’
    1. 0:00How the final GOP tax bill will impact California
    2. 7:32How repealing the individual mandate will affect California’s health care marketYou’re reading this
    3. 14:35Overturning marijuana-related convictions
    4. 22:48Making the creature in ‘The Shape of Water’ sexy
    5. 37:18The fascinating history of the former Russian consulate in San Francisco
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