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Health insurance
With job losses, workers and their families lose health insurance coverage
Aug 27, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that number is at 12 million people.
Insurers' offers to cover COVID-19 treatment are expiring
by
Erika Beras
Aug 21, 2020
The offers made business sense at the height of the pandemic. Things are more complicated now.
California court to rule on gig worker classification
Aug 5, 2020
The issue has big implications for workers' access to safety net benefits that have become crucial during the pandemic.
With fewer people on health insurance, health care jobs could be in jeopardy, report says
Aug 4, 2020
The employer-provided health insurance losses projected to come could cost the U.S. economy another 1.5 million to 2.5 million jobs.
Millions of newly unemployed Americans have lost health insurance, study finds
by
David Brancaccio
, Nova Safo
and Alex Schroeder
Jul 14, 2020
More than 5 million people who lost their jobs lost their health insurance and didn’t find an alternative.
What options do I have if I’ve lost my health insurance?
by
Janet Nguyen
May 13, 2020
Millions of Americans are now uninsured after getting laid off.
Lost health insurance? COBRA's an option, but it isn't cheap
May 13, 2020
The benefit allows you to keep your former employer's insurance plan — as long as you pay your former employer's share of the premium
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With COVID-19, some states reopen the ACA marketplace for uninsured
May 5, 2020
The health plans, available to gig workers and the self-employed, are seeing an "influx of enrollment," one expert says.
Will insurance companies cover mental health services' switch to telehealth?
by
Alisa Roth
Apr 10, 2020
Therapists and psychiatrists are just starting to submit their March bills.
COVID-19 response complicated by inequities in health insurance, sick leave
Mar 6, 2020
More than 27 million Americans are uninsured, and millions more are underinsured, hampering public health efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.