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 The Affordable Coverage Coalition, which includes the American
Medical Association, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and
employer groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said they
serve hundreds of millions of patients, consumers and employers.
The Affordable Coverage Coalition called on the Biden Administration
to make ACA premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions more
generous, restore federal funding for outreach and enrollment
programs and automatically enroll individuals eligible for Medicaid
and premium-free ACA marketplace plans.
The group says they see these moves as a way for the United States
to move towards universal healthcare coverage and make ACA more
accessible for uninsured Americans who have lost or are at risk of
losing employer-based coverage because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 "Achieving universal coverage
is particularly critical as we strive to contain
the COVID-19 pandemic and work to address
long-standing inequities in health care access
and outcomes," the coalition said.
In January, President Joe Biden signed an
executive order to reopen healthcare.gov, the
nation's online health insurance marketplace,
from Feb. 15 to May 15. The program had been
accessible for six weeks in the fall.
(Reporting by Vishwadha Chander in Bengaluru;
Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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