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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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