Obamacare ‘glitch’ magnified as Americans scramble for health care amid coronavirus pandemic

Yahoo Finance July 23, 2020
Adriana Belmonte Senior Editor

The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, led to millions of Americans getting more access to health care coverage. And that health care access is more crucial than ever amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that a key component of Obamacare, the expansion of Medicaid in every state, was “unduly coercive” and left it up to the states to decide if they wanted to adopt that expansion.

That left a “coverage gap” of an estimated 4.8 million people uninsured in the 13 states without expanded Medicaid. And those Americans are particularly vulnerable if they’ve lost their employer-sponsored health care during the coronavirus pandemic and have such a low income...

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