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https://dontvis.it/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/health/covid-19-health-insurance.html :

2020-09-28 | As Covid-19 Looms, Some Workers Face Loss of Health Insurance - The New York Times

'Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers must return the excess profits if they do not spend at least 80 or 85 cents out of every dollar in premiums on customers’ health care. '

'Piersall said. “The health care is the biggest concern.”And as hard as he is trying to maintain insurance for everyone, he is also concerned about efforts to do away with Obamacare. '

' He was uninsured for a year and a half after leaving a corporate job to start the business before he could enroll in an A.C.A. plan that covered his Crohn’s disease. '

'But even that provision strikes some as inadequate, given the current circumstances and the timing of the potential rebates.“We are in the middle of a once-in-a-century health and economic crisis, and it will take everyone stepping up to do their part to get us past it — including health insurance companies,” said Representative Lauren Underwood, a Democrat from Illinois. '

'Dave Piersall, the owner of Lake Marine & RV, a boating business in Woodstock, Ill., used some of his federal aid on the $7,400-a-month insurance bill to cover his employees. “We came within inches of being canceled,” he said. '


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