Texas adds 570,000 to affordable health care plans, leading all states in newly insured | mitchschnurman
for the navigator program, down from $63 million in 2016. Fewer than 1.1 million Texans signed up on HealthCare.gov in 2019, the lowest total since the law was fully implemented five years earlier.
Navigators made a special effort to reach young people, regularly going to community colleges to offer help with enrollment, he said. They also targeted barber shops, salons and other small businesses because many of those employees cannot afford the company’s insurance or their spouses had been locked out of the exchange because of the family glitch.
Texas’ big gains in enrollment are closely tied to another factor: It has over 5 million uninsured residents, millions more than any other state., research professor and co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. “I’m glad to see they’re reaching some of them.”
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