First Deadlines For Laid-Off Workers To Get Health Insurance
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Taxpayer-subsidized health insurance is available for a modest cost sometimes even free across the country, but industry officials and independent researchers say few people seem to know how to find it.
For those who lost their health insurance as layoffs mounted at the end of March, a 60-day special enrollment period for individual coverage under the ACA closes next week in most states. Altheia Franklin, who lives near Houston, lost her medical plan after being laid off from a job at an upscale retirement community, as a counselor to seniors making the move. Stay-at-home orders and higher virus risks for older people have put such life transitions on hold in the pandemic.
Franklin said she received plenty of government information about coronavirus safety and economic stimulus payments, but the insurance piece just has not been mentioned. She scrambled and finally found an ACA or Obamacare plan she could still afford on a reduced income. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and God forbid if I get sick and if I don't have it,' she said of her health insurance.
The nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that nearly 27 million workers and family members had lost job-based health coverage as of the start of this month, a number now likely higher with unemployment claims rising...
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)The number of people who had health care insurance under Obama and now, and how many have lost the insurance now under a trump reign of terror. trump and Moscow Mitch doesn't want you to have any health care plan, and trump lied claiming he would have one better , cheaper covering more, where's his plan at? Just like he's doing now , it was all lies and trump bs.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)And close as always with Biden 2020.