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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">MSU Extension is offering health insurance webinars that can be hosted by a library to help educate their community members on the Affordable Care Act. This program is part of the MSUE’s non-commercial
<i>Smart Choice Health Insurance© </i>consumer education program (Smart Choice). MSUE educators will use the Smart Choice curriculum to help consumers across Michigan become better able to navigate the health insurance landscape in general as well as how it
relates to the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, making them more confident to make a choice that's best for their family's health and financial needs, wants and resources.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">MSUE invites your library to become a hosting partner and to simulcast one or more Smart Choice webinars – or host a workshop – for the benefit of your patrons. <span style="color:black">Libraries can become
hosting partners and simulcast one or more Smart Choice webinars – or host a workshop – for the benefit of your patrons. To accommodate the diverse scheduling needs of hosting sites across the state, MSUE is delivering the 90-minute Smart Choice webinar 2
times every Monday, at the following times: 3-5pm and 6-8pm. To reserve the webinar date(s) and time(s) – or schedule a workshop – that best serves the needs of your library, email your request to Brenda Long at
</span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:Healthinsurance@anr.msu.edu">Healthinsurance@anr.msu.edu</a></span>.<span style="color:blue">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attached here is a flyer your library can use to promote a Smart Choice webinar, an invitation about how to become a hosting partner and a press release about the program from the MSU Extension.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please contact Brenda Long, email shown above, with any questions about how to become a hosting partner.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon D. White<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing Education<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">702 West Kalamazoo, P.O. Box 30007, Lansing, MI 48909-7507<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ph: 517-373-9489; Fax: 517-373-5700<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Toll free: 877-479-0021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:blue">whites29@michigan.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:blue">http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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