Biden extending Obamacare's pandemic enrollment season
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Source: Politico
The Biden administration is extending a special Obamacare enrollment season it opened for the pandemic, giving Americans three more months to shop for health coverage after Congress recently boosted insurance subsidies in the Covid stimulus package.
President Joe Biden during his first weeks in office opened a new special enrollment period, citing increased need for coverage during the twin economic and health crises. Biden announced the sign-up extension Tuesday evening as he marked the health care law's 11th anniversary and touted its biggest expansion yet during a speech in Ohio.
“With the American Rescue Plan and the Affordable Care Act, millions of families will be able to sleep a little bit more soundly at night because they don’t have worry about losing everything if they get sick," Biden said.
The Covid relief package, which passed with just Democratic votes, made subsidies more generous for low-income shoppers on the marketplace and extended them to middle-income Americans for the first time. His administration said the enhanced health insurance subsidies will become available to shoppers on the federal enrollment site, HealthCare.gov, on April 1.
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