HealthLeaders Media March 12, 2021
For the first time since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act is slated for major benefit expansions, courtesy of the COVID relief bill approved by Congress this week.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The ACA benefits in the COVID relief bill include more generous subsidies and added benefits for a wider group of Americans.
– But the test for Democrats will be whether they can persuade the country — and the Congress — to make the changes permanent.
– That bill also makes substantive changes in Medicaid rules. It offers states that have not expanded the health care program for low-income people — a provision of the ACA — a financial incentive to do so.
– It also allows states...
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