The New York Times
BREAKING NEWS
Enrollment in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act has surged, and two deeply conservative states are considering its Medicaid expansion.
Monday, March 22, 2021 3:47 PM EST
More than 200,000 Americans signed up for health insurance under the law during the first two weeks of an open enrollment period created by President Biden — a sign that those who lost insurance during the pandemic remain in desperate need of coverage, according to federal officials and health policy experts.
And a provision in the president’s $1.9 trillion stimulus law to make Medicaid expansion more fiscally appealing has convinced deep-red Alabama and Wyoming to consider expanding the program to residents whose incomes are too high to qualify now but too low to afford private health plans.
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