As Health Law Moves Forward, More With Low-Incomes Gaining Medicaid Coverage

In recent days, several prominent Republican governors have indicated that they will expand their state Medicaid programs to cover people who have incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, a major victory for low-income people with disabilities. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services has just released regulations governing the essential health benefits that all individual and small group health insurance plans must offer as part of the new health care law. When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare or the universal health care law, in 2010, the law required all…

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