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Laid Off? You Can Still Sign Up for Obamacare

Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Roughly 9 million Americans have applied for unemployment insurance in the past two weeks as the coronavirus pandemic ravages the economy. But, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, those who have lost their employer-based health coverage don’t need to go…

Trump’s Anti-Obamacare Insurance Plans Are Ripping People Off

President Donald Trump in October, 2017 signing an executive order “to promote healthcare choice and competition,” including expanding the duration of short-term health insurance plansRon Sachs/Zuma The so-called “junk insurance” plans the Trump administration promotes may be helping insurance companies more than patients. Short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans—Obamacare workarounds that do not have to comply…