MedPage Today March 5, 2021
— Includes new incentives for states that haven’t expanded Medicaid
WASHINGTON — Both public and private health insurance would become less expensive for large numbers of people under the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill now being debated in the Senate.
Provisions Affecting COBRA, ACA Plans
The bill contains a number of provisions affecting insurance bought on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchanges, as well as COBRA and Medicaid, and experts say that these provisions are likely to stay in the final measure, albeit with a few possible tweaks. The provisions include:
Help with COBRA premiums. COBRA (which stands for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, the law that created the program) allows people who have been laid...
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