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Dylan Scott
@dylanlscott
Exclusive: Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance, according to new federal estimates
President Biden onstage speaking into microphones and holding his hands in a this wide gesture.
Exclusive: Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance
Bidens next health care challenge will be enrolling uninsured people who already qualify for benefits.
vox.com
6:14 AM · Apr 1, 2021
Dylan Scott
@dylanlscott
Exclusive: Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance, according to new federal estimates
President Biden onstage speaking into microphones and holding his hands in a this wide gesture.
Exclusive: Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance
Bidens next health care challenge will be enrolling uninsured people who already qualify for benefits.
vox.com
6:14 AM · Apr 1, 2021
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22360870/american-rescue-plan-act-premium-tax-credit-health-insurance
After the passage of President Joe Bidens first Covid-19 relief plan, nearly 7 million additional uninsured Americans now qualify for free health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, according to new federal projections shared exclusively with Vox.
The American Rescue Plan (ARP), which takes effect on Thursday, expanded eligibility for the Affordable Care Acts premium subsidies federal aid to help people pay for insurance plans bought on the individual marketplace. It also made the subsidies more generous for the people who already qualify for them. It expanded the number of people currently without any insurance coverage who could enroll in a plan for free.
Roughly 29 million people currently living in the US lack health insurance. According to the new HHS estimates, at least 6.8 million of them could now purchase an ACA plan with no monthly premium, and another 1.3 million could sign up for a health plan that costs less than $50 a month. Many of those people already qualified for free or low-cost coverage prior to the ARP, but based on the federal projections, the new laws expansion of the ACA made an additional 2 million Americans eligible for free or cheap coverage.
A low premium is no guarantee that a plans out-of-pocket costs will also be low enough for people to find it affordable. But about 1.9 million people with incomes between 100 and 150 percent of the poverty level can get insurance with no monthly premium that will cover 94 percent of their medical costs, according to federal estimates. And about two-thirds of uninsured Black and Hispanic/Latinx Americans, who are less likely to have coverage than their white peers, qualify for zero-cost coverage.
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Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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NoMoreRepugs
(9,436 posts)1. Amazing first 75 days... to think 70million+ Deplorable voters
somehow thought the Orange Douche deserved 4 more years so he could totally destroy the country.
crickets
(25,981 posts)2. Great! K&R
dalton99a
(81,527 posts)3. Kick