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Michigan releases exchange plan costs

Technical glitches on launch day for Michigan's new online health insurance marketplace couldn't dampen the relief Hussein Daoud felt for himself, his wife and their six children.

By David Eggert, Jeff Karoub | Updated on October 02, 2013
ACCESS Community Health and Research Center Navigator Nancy Berry, right, looks over an Affordable Care Act cost calculator with Hussein Daoud at the center in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Technical glitches on launch day for Michigan’s new online health insurance marketplace couldn’t dampen the relief Hussein Daoud felt for himself, his wife and their six children.

The Detroit resident, 51, came to apply for insurance at the Dearborn-based nonprofit organization ACCESS. He learned with the help of trained counselors that his annual income of $14,500 made him eligible for Medicaid and he likely won’t have to pay for a plan that covers his family.

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