On February 15th, 2015, EnrollSA/Get Bexar Covered wrapped up its second successful year of increasing healthcare coverage in San Antonio. Let’s hit you with the numbers: This year, a total of 110,805 people enrolled in a health insurance plan in
By Edward Vargas, Field Organizer for Enroll America Growing up in a family where many of my aunts, uncles, and cousins did not have health insurance—and were one hospital visit shy of possibly becoming bankrupt—motivates me to help those in
By Jessica Rios, SA2020 Health & Fitness Partnership Manager The second round of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) Marketplace started on November 15th 2014. Last year, SA2020 joined an impressive coalition of community health groups and
By Jessica Rios, Health and Fitness Partnership Manager for SA2020 Prior to getting married, my husband did not have health insurance, and did not see the importance for it. He’s a healthy, young guy who eats right and watches
By Trevor Chauvin “Obamacare is a scam! The site is faulty, and impossible to figure out and navigate! Even Obama couldn’t register his family on the crappy site….” These are all things I’ve heard about The Affordable Care Act (aka.
San Antonio’s grassroots, nonprofit, health care and government leaders are combining efforts to educate the more than 212,000 uninsured people in Bexar County about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the benefits of health care coverage. “EnrollSA” is a coalition
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020