Posted on 01/27/2021 6:47:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Joe Biden plans to reopen the HealthCare.gov insurance markets for a special sign-up opportunity geared to people needing coverage in the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden is expected to sign an executive order Thursday, said two people familiar with the plan, whose details were still being finalized. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the pending order ahead of a formal announcement.
Although the number of uninsured Americans has grown because of job losses due to the economic hit of COVID-19, the Trump administration resisted calls to authorize a “special enrollment period” for people uninsured in the pandemic. Failure to repeal and replace “Obamacare” as he repeatedly vowed to do was one of former President Donald Trump's most bitter disappointments.
Biden's order would directly affect HealthCare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace currently serving 36 states.
The special sign-up opportunity is only a down payment on health insurance for Biden, who has promised to build on former President Barack Obama's health law to push the U.S. toward coverage for all.
Of some 28 million uninsured Americans before the pandemic, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates, more than 16 million were eligible for some form of subsidized coverage through the health law.
Experts agree that number of uninsured people has risen because of layoffs, perhaps by 5 million to 10 million, but authoritative estimates await government studies due later this year.
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If you already have a mask, you can keep your mask. Period.
Cha-ching cha-ching....
Isn’t he like 6 months late?
Obama market was open in november and december 2020, if you needed insurance because of covid, that would have been the time to do it.
This is just foolish
Medicaid takes car of any “low income” people who do not have health insurance. Are we going to do a little double dipping?
HealthCare.gov and they wonder why health insurance fraud is so high DUH.
Why is there a sign up period?
I don’t have a sign up period for home, car, life insurance.
Why a sign up period for health insurance?
To make sure you don’t sign up for health insurance when you are in the hospital
It was a obamacare thing
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