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Applying for health insurance? Homework involved WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting covered through President Barack Obama’s health care law might feel like a combination of doing your taxes and making a big purchase that requires research. You’ll need accurate income information for your household, plus some understanding of how health insurance works, so you can get the financial assistance you qualify for and pick a health plan that’s right for your needs. The process involves federal agencies verifying your identity, citizen-
Maygan Rollins, 22, a field organizer with Enroll America, left, talks with Roger Smith, 46, right, about his health care options while canvassing at a bus stop on Wednesday in Miami. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ship and income, and you have to sign that you are providing truthful information, subject to perjury laws. You heard it was going to be like buying airline tickets online? Not quite. But even if the process triggers some anxiety, it’s not the government poking in your medical records, as “Obamacare” foes have suggested. After state health insurance markets open Oct. 1, consumers can apply online, via a call center, in person or by SEE APPLY, PAGE A5
MILITARY APPRECIATION PICNIC SERVES MORE THAN 1,200
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BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com Three years after he walked these roads for the last time, family and friends of Aaron Jacobs marched to the spot on Patriot Parkway where the young man was shot and killed in an altercation with a police officer. About 40 marchers, many of them relatives of Jacobs, retraced his steps early Saturday SEE JACOBS, PAGE A6 BELOW: A young woman marches with friends and family of Aaron Jacobs on Saturday. BRISTOW MARCHANT / THE ITEM PHOTOS BY JACK OSTEEN / THE ITEM
The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce held its annual Military Appreciation Picnic at Shaw Air Force Base on Friday. More than 1,200 Army and Air Force men and women were served hamburgers and hot dogs donated by Piggly Wiggly. SAFE Federal Credit Union was the signature sponsor of the event. ABOVE: Jonathan Zimpleman, wearing a Clemson hat, and Carl McIntosh, in a Gamecock apron, team up despite their college loyalty differences to flip burgers for the Military Appreciation Picnic.
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LEFT: Sumter Volunteer Joan Morris replenishes a table with more cookies for the military men and women. About a dozen local churches supplied 2,000 bags of homemade cookies for the event.
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Government shutdown would hurt businesses, workers tied to military
TODAY, Sept. 29 1:30 to 9 p.m. – Gates open to the public, $6 general admission 6 a.m. — Livestock removed 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Commercial exhibits removed 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Poultry and baby animals removed 2 to 3:30 p.m. — Individual entries removed, premium checks picked up 2, 4 p.m. — Magic of Lance Gifford 2:30, 4:30 p.m. — Hermann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions 3, 5:15 p.m. — Staples Safari 3:30, 6 p.m. — Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs 9 p.m. — Midway closes Every day is Hand Stamp Day.
BY JAMIE SELF The State A federal government shutdown, which could come this week, would mean no new federal contracts for S.C. businesses, furloughs for some federal workers and delayed pay for oth-
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ers, who must continue to work because they are deemed essential to protecting life and property. It would be “devastating to the economy of South Carolina, more than most states,’’ because of the state’s military bases and indus-
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tries that rely on defense-related federal contracts, said U.S. Rep. and Sumter native Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia. Clyburn is assistant leader of Democrats in the U.S. House. But Republicans agree — a partial shutdown would hurt the state’s econo-
my, still struggling to recover from the Great Recession. A federal shutdown “would create such stress in families, in terms of some people being paid and employed and some people SEE SHUTDOWN, PAGE A7
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