Posted on 07/03/2021 6:05:38 AM PDT by buckalfa
Along with $1,400 stimulus checks and monthly child tax credit payments, the American Rescue Plan has another important benefit available to people who qualified for unemployment assistance this year – free health care.
The no-cost and low-cost health care plans became available on July 1, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They will provide coverage through the end of the year.
"The Biden-Harris Administration is focused on providing relief to millions of families who need to access health insurance coverage because they have been impacted by job losses or underemployment during the pandemic,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “The Administration has made it easier than ever for Americans to enroll in an affordable, comprehensive health insurance plans through HealthCare.gov thanks to the increased financial assistance provided through the American Rescue Plan.
Millions of people will be able to take advantage of the insurance subsidies, but there’s an important requirement – you have to have received or been approved to receive unemployment compensation in 2021.
If you are eligible, the next step is to got to Healthcare.gov and submit a new application or update an existing one to maximize your savings.
We are doing everything we can to remove financial barriers to comprehensive health care,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure in a news release. “The American Rescue Plan provides consumers with additional savings and will make coverage even more attainable for those most in need.”
A special enrollment period created to help Americans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is open through August 15, 2021.
Whether or not you get a $0 plan will depend on the advanced tax credits that you qualify for during the application process
The CMS says that an average of three out of five eligible, uninsured Americans will not have to pay a premium with four out of five qualifying for a plan that is $10 a month or less.
“We encourage consumers who have received unemployment compensation in 2021 to visit the Marketplace to see if they qualify to save money on their health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs,” Becerra said.
Of course we're going to borrow more money to pay for all of this, so the unemployed can buy the products made by the country we're borrowing it from.
Never mind what the democrats are doing to this country. Look at what we did to it with our stupid free trade deals.
But at least we can save $.10 on communist made paint brushes.
I thought obamacare took care of this for all the poor unfortunates...
Exactly. The healthcare is free to them but paid for by We The People. Asterisk and admin are pushing us into socialism.
This had nothing to do with a virus. It’s the leftist agenda that they saw an opportunity to implement, with the excuse of the virus.
They didn’t care one bit about the people who got sick. They cared about dumping Trump, destroying Trump’s economy, killing the old folks, testing a new way of delivering vaccine, seizing private property, making people more dependent on government and starting reparations.
For 2020 they waived whatever you owed the govt for premiums when it came time to pay taxes.
This had nothing to do with a virus.
It’s the leftist agenda that they
saw an opportunity to implement,
with the excuse of the virus.\\
It was the left enabled by fauci and
ilk, that created and deployed the virus,
it was a Covid coup imho.
I agree , whatever can be used for
The advance of any immortality,
by enemies foreign and domestic ,
WILL be used and is.
Anything that can and will damage
The Constitutional Republic
Will be and IS used.
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I am about to give up and just give up my business and live on welfare. I struggled for 15 years now building a business only to have the government shutter it for kung flu. Blew through my savings keeping it afloat. Massive bailouts for everyone else and competitors. And richly rewarding slackers and deadbeats. Screw it. I am tired. Time to knock up some lady, find a doctor to approve disability, and retire.
Knocking down businesses like yours to help degenerates stay at home with more money in their hands to buy pot and china-made goods. And then blame for the inevitable inflation gets shifted to one party or the other, one politician or the other, for a wide variety of policies, when almost all of them supported the one policy primarily responsible: ridiculous stimulus checks. That’s what “stimulus” is all about.
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