Affordable Care Act

The federal government has reduced costs for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act. Starting today, West Virginians are eligible to enroll in cheaper plans.

Since taking office, President Joe Biden has committed to bolstering the Affordable Care Act, best known for expanding who qualifies for Medicaid and banning insurance companies from penalizing those with pre-existing conditions.It will take time for the administration to pinpoint and address those policies, but West Virginia has already and will see the impacts.

One executive order opens a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act from Feb. 15 to May 15.

West Virginians have about three weeks left to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and a non-profit in the state has offered socially distanced help to apply.

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was back before the U.S. Supreme Court today -- the third time in a decade. If the healthcare law is overturned, hundreds of thousands of West Virginians could be impacted.

With just a little more than a week before Election Day and with a challenge to the health care law coming before the high court, health care is on both the ballot and the docket. And for the Ohio Valley — a region with some of the nation’s worst health outcomes — the stakes are high.

Voters in Southern West Virginia likely will support President Donald Trump as they did in the 2016 election. But some register concern over big-ticket issues like health care and they say the Affordable Care Act may have helped people who are poor but it hurt small businesses and the working class.

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