Reporter a girl saved by her eyeglasses and may have deflected a bullet during a driveby shooting. A very good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im thomas and good to have you with us. Today is the key deadline for the Affordable Care act better known as obamacare and have it kick in on the first and the troubled website can now handle a rush but it could prevent people from signing up and al jazeera has more. If you have not already you might want to pencil in a couple hours to sign up for healthcare, millions of americans remain uninsured in most states and monday december 23 is the deadline for selecting a plan if you are looking for coverage that starts january first. Its important for people in highrisk pools to get insurance now, that includes those with preexisting conditions, people who lost coverage when insurers cancelled 2013 plans and people in states where medicaid is scaling back. But the january first deadline varies in states that operate their own health excha
There is one group in particular the white house is desperate to sign up, young and healthy. Al Jazeera Americas melissa chan tells us why this group is so crucial to making the entire system work. Its right before christmas and tori and sarah hay have last minute shopping to do, but one thing neither plans to buy after work is Health Insurance. The Obama Administration wants badly for Young Americans like them to enroll. Theyre not convinced. The only thing that i know about obamacare is what ive seen on saturday nigh saturday i have not. They would like to see 7 Million People signed up by spring. They would like a third of those to be young and healthy americans. Its not about the number of people who sign up for obamacare, its about the distribution. In order for this system to work enough Young Healthy americans must enroll to pay for the healthcare costs accrued by older americans. If too few young and healthy americans enroll premium gas up. The fear is it will become so expensi
Its involvement in south sudan. Has decided to send 150 more air are forces. Im determined to ensure that we have the means to carry out its essential task of protecting civilians. Im be spending most of today, ill be spending most much today calling regional leaders and others to bolster are support for unmiss. Are why henry matassa, is in are the area. Peter said he was attacked by men carrying machetes, young people with no apparent loyalties, started attacking with blades that looked like machetes. Of the two to three hours just godless. And more people are expected to get hurt. President salva kiir, says the armys duties are to protect the areas of south sudan, bring them under the control of the government of south sudan. The army concentrations are on their way. Reporter there are fears things could get worse. Thats why this woman wont leave this u. N. Compound even if things here are bad. Theres no water. Theres no food. When we are hungry here we want to find some food or wate
The United Nations has now pulled out nearly 700 workers. Gunshots forced earlier rescues to abort. Tribal differences between the president and his former Vice President are driving the violence there. It escalated when the president dissolved his entire cabinet in july. He also reshuffled the government creating a oneparty state making it nearly impossible for anyone else to be elected president in south sudan. More from harrah mutasa. As the violence in central south sudan esc lanes, thousands of people are trying to escape the fighting. Government soldiers have lost control of the capitol to rebels. They have battle to go recapture bor. There are a lot of people in the u. N. Compound. The whole town is barricaded completely. It is only these rebel soldiers who move about in the town. All of the bodies have not been collected. We dont know how far, what is the number of the death up to now because the town is under the control of the rebels. The rebels are loyal to former Vice Presi