While everyone awaits tomorrow’s Supreme Court decision on whether the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, the health care field has already been changed by it. The Act was designed to be implemented in phases and one of those phases is about to put some money in the pockets of health care consumers across the country. In Alaska, the John Alden Life Insurance company will be issuing rebates as part of what’s known as the “80/20” rule.
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Annie Feidt is the Managing Editor for Alaska's Energy Desk, a collaboration between Alaska Public Media in Anchorage, KTOO Public Media in Juneau and KUCB in Unalaska. Her reporting has taken her searching for polar bears on the Chukchi Sea ice, out to remote checkpoints on the Iditarod Trail, and up on the Eklutna Glacier with scientists studying its retreat. Her stories have been heard nationally on NPR and Marketplace.
Annie’s career in radio journalism began in 1998 at Minnesota Public Radio, where she produced the regional edition of All Things Considered. She moved to Anchorage in 2004 with her husband, intending to stay in the 49th state just a few years. She has no plans to leave anytime soon.
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