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Good news about health insurance availability
 

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To the editor:

When I was a farm kid back in the 1950s, I remember my parents' anxiety about our family's lack of health insurance. We just couldn't afford it.

Now the 2021 American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress with absolutely no Republican support, has made health insurance free for millions more people while reducing health insurance costs for others. Working together, President Biden and Democratic legislators expanded subsidies for people buying their own insurance on Affordable Care exchanges.

There's even more good news. People who lost their jobs but want to keep their former employer's health insurance also may get help.

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If you don't qualify for group health insurance elsewhere, the federal government will now copay your COBRA premiums for up to six months.

We can all be glad that, under President Joe Biden and a Democratic Congress, many more Americans have access to affordable health insurance.

Gary Davis

[Posted May 22, 2021]

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