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By Pat Loeb

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) With the deadline to sign up for health insurance under Obamacare fast approaching, Drexel Medicine today hosted a sign-up event, targeting women in particular.

Today, certified application counselor Myra Shanks helped Garolyn Jones go through the signup process at healthcare.gov. Jones children are insured through her ex-husbands employer, but she has had no insurance since the divorce and it worries her.

I have children, and if I cant take care of myself physically, then I cant take care of my children. So I need insurance, she told KYW Newsradio.

Women are usually the family member who is taking care of their children, their partners, Wolf said today. Many of them are working and uninsured themselves. We have many, many safety net programs in place, but that means that people will go from one to the other to the next with lots of gaps in their care, she notes.

So, she says, she was delighted to partner with other nonprofits for the signup event, which drew people such as Monique, who mused about how a health issue may affect her financially.

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Drexel Medical School Holds Affordable Care Signup Event