Changes for the worse in health care : Health Care for All Philadelphia

Changes for the worse in health care

May 1, 2026

New Changes in Health Insurance Will Impact You

  1.  If you are in Medicaid (Keystone First, Jefferson Health Plan, Aetna Better Health, United Healthcare Community Plan, AmeriHealth Caritas, UPMC, etc.) beginning in January 2027 and if you are “able bodied” and between 19-64, you are required to work or do community service for 80 hours a month and be recertified every 6 months as Medicaid eligible.  Failure to comply could result in losing Medicaid.

You are exempt from work requirements if you are:

  1.  Over 65 or under 19 years old
  2. Pregnant or post-partum up to one year
  3. SSI Disabled or “medically frail”
  4. Veteran with “totally disabled” rating
  5. Caregiver for a child under 14 or a person with a disability
  6. In alcohol or drug addiction treatment
  •  If you are in the ACA Marketplace (Obamacare) and are for example, self-employed, part-time worker, employed but not given health insurance by your employer, etc. you have lost your premium tax subsidies and likely have much higher health insurance bills.  You have very few options. You can go without insurance or pay the higher premiums through Pennie.com, the PA Marketplace.  Unless you have a qualifying life event, you must wait until October 19, 2026.
  • Lawfully present immigrant.  The new federal rules severely limit coverage for even lawfully present immigrants.  Even refugees, asylees, DACA recipients are not eligible for the ACA Marketplace.  The only immigrants who can get Medicaid beginning Oct 1 are:
  1. Green card holders who have been in the US five years
  2. Cuban or Haiti entrants
  3. Compact of Free Association migrants (basically Pacific Islanders)

SOUNDS CRUEL AND INHUMANE??   IT IS!!!

Medicare for All would eliminate the bureaucracy because health care is a human right.  Vote!

Everyone In, Nobody Out!

Written by WTsou · Filed Under Uncategorized 

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