In response, 11 states have independently reopened their state-run health exchanges for a special sign-up period. But the administration has declined to take such steps for the national marketplace. Even before coronavirus, the institute estimated that 32 million Americans were uninsured. About 20 million of them could benefit from a special enrollment period, Blumberg said. Without insurance, coronavirus treatment poses not just a health risk, but also a financial one.
After treating patients, hospitals would get paid at the Medicare rate. If left untreated, those chronic ailments make COVID far more dangerous than it would be for someone able to get preventive treatment earlier on. And the ACA is nowhere near sufficient on its own, Miller noted.
Striking the individual marketplace and Medicaid expansion would leave almost another 20 million people uninsured — "at risk for not only illness from COVID, but also massive medical bills," said Larry Levitt, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.
Insurance companies could charge more to cover people who have previously contracted the virus assuming, of course, those people can get tested and recorded as having had COVID Plus, emerging evidence suggests severe cases of COVID may leave lingering health consequences, that even after recovery would require ongoing medical care, Levitt said.
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These moves helped bring millions of working-class independents and nonvoters into the Republican fold, and the party badly needs them to win. But Republicans are starting to realize how much the tradeoff has affected their traditional message.
Among Republicans over 45, the numbers were almost perfectly reversed: 74 percent favored prioritizing lower taxes. The split between older voters who came of age under Ronald Reagan and younger voters defined by Trump reflects two different lived experiences as to what conservatism means.
Is the problem that leaps out that they tax big corporations and unfairly penalize the hardworking elite? Are they against them because Republicans oppose big spending? Republicans have violated conservative orthodoxy on economic issues plenty of times in the past, especially when they held the White House. But the basic argument of a small government approach offered a North Star on the economy to which they could always return.
More traditional Republicans are hoping this break is temporary and that Biden will overreach, underperform and remind their voters why they were wary of his approach in the first place. But it also may be several election cycles before Republicans can find a coherent economic philosophy they can rally around.
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