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IntroductionLa Peste (Camus 1947) has served as a basis for several critical works, can you take viagra and cialis including cialis brand name buy online some in the field of medical humanities (Bozzaro 2018. Deudon 1988. Tuffuor and Payne 2017) cialis brand name buy online.

Frequently interpreted as an allegory of Nazism (with the plague as a symbol of the German occupation of France) (Finel-Honigman 1978. Haroutunian 1964), it has also received philosophical readings beyond the sociopolitical context in which it was written (Lengers 1994). Other scholars, on cialis brand name buy online the other hand, have centred their analyses on its literary aspects (Steel 2016).The erectile dysfunction treatment cialis has increased general interest about historical and fictional epidemics.

La Peste, as one of the most famous literary works about this topic, has been revisited by many readers during recent months, leading to an unexpected growth in sales in certain countries (Wilsher 2020. Zaretsky 2020). Apart from that, commentaries about the novel, especially among health sciences scholars, have emerged with cialis brand name buy online a renewed interest (Banerjee et al.

2020. Bate 2020. Vandekerckhove 2020 cialis brand name buy online.

Wigand, Becker, and Steger 2020). This sudden curiosity is easy to understand if we consider both La Peste’s literary value, and people’s desire to discover real or fictional situations similar to theirs. Indeed, Oran inhabitants’ experiences are not quite far from our own, even if geographical, chronological and, specially, scientific factors (two different diseases occurring at two different stages in the history of medical development) prevent us from establishing too close resemblances between both situations.Furthermore, it will not be strange if erectile dysfunction treatment serves cialis brand name buy online as a frame for fictional works in the near future.

Other narrative plays were based on historical epidemics, such as Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year or Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (Wigand, Becker, and Steger 2020. Withington 2020). The biggest cialis in the last century, the so-called ‘Spanish Influenza’, has been described as not very fruitful in this sense, even if it produced famous novels such as Katherine A Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider or John O’Hara’s cialis brand name buy online The Doctor Son (Honigsbaum 2018.

Hovanec 2011). The overlapping with another disaster like World War I has been argued as one of the reasons explaining this scarce production of fictional works (Honigsbaum 2018). By contrast, we may cialis brand name buy online think that erectile dysfunction treatment is having a global impact hardly overshadowed by other events, and that it will leave a significant mark on the collective memory.Drawing on the reading of La Peste, we point out in this essay different aspects of living under an epidemic that can be identified both in Camus’s work and in our current situation.

We propose a trip throughout the novel, from its early beginning in Part I, when the Oranians are not aware of the threat to come, to its end in Part V, when they are relieved of the epidemic after several months of ravaging disasters.We think this journey along La Peste may be interesting both to health professionals and to the lay person, since all of them will be able to see themselves reflected in the characters from the novel. We do not skip critique of some aspects related to the authorities’ management of erectile dysfunction treatment, as Camus does concerning Oran’s rulers. However, what we want to foreground is La Peste’s intrinsic value, its suitability to be read now and after erectile dysfunction treatment has passed, when Camus’s novel endures as a solid art work and erectile dysfunction treatment cialis brand name buy online remains only as a defeated plight.MethodsWe confronted our own experiences about erectile dysfunction treatment with a conventional reading of La Peste.

A first reading of the novel was used to establish associations between those aspects which more saliently reminded us of erectile dysfunction treatment. In a second reading, we searched for some examples to illustrate those aspects and tried to detect new associations. Subsequent readings cialis brand name buy online of certain parts were done to integrate the information collected.

Neither specific methods of literary analysis, nor systematic searches in the novel were applied. Selected paragraphs and ideas from Part I to Part V were prepared in a draft copy, and this manuscript was written afterwards.Part ISome phrases in the novel could be transposed word by word to our situation. This one pertaining to its start, for instance, may make us remember the first months of 2020:By now, it will be easy to accept that nothing could lead the people of our town to expect the events that took place in the spring of that year and which, as we later understood, were cialis brand name buy online like the forerunners of the series of grave happenings that this history intends to describe.

(Camus 2002, Part I)By referring from the beginning to ‘the people of our town’, Camus is already suggesting an idea which is repeated all along the novel, and which may be well understood by us as erectile dysfunction treatment’s witnesses. Epidemics affect the community as a whole, they are present in everybody’s mind and their joys and sorrows are not individual, but collective. For example (and we are anticipating Part II), the narrator says:But, once the gates were closed, they all noticed that they were in the same boat, including the narrator himself, and that they had to adjust to cialis brand name buy online the fact.

(Camus 2002, Part II)Later, he will insist in this opposition between the concepts of ‘individual’, which used to prevail before the epidemic, and ‘collective’:One might say that the first effect of this sudden and brutal attack of the disease was to force the citizens of our town to act as though they had no individual feelings. (Camus 2002, Part II)There were no longer any individual destinies, but a collective history that was the plague, and feelings shared by all. (Camus 2002, Part III)This distinction is not trivial, since the story will display a strong confrontation between those who get involved and help their neighbours and those cialis brand name buy online who remain behaving selfishly.

Related to this, Claudia Bozzaro has pointed out that the main topic in La Peste is solidarity and auistic love (Bozzaro 2018). We may add that the disease is so attached to people’s lives that the epidemic becomes the new everyday life:In the morning, they would return to the pestilence, that is to say, to routine. (Camus 2002, Part III)Being collective issues does not cialis brand name buy online mean that epidemics always enhance auism and solidarity.

As said by Wigand et al, they frequently produce ambivalent reactions, and one of them is the opposition between auism and maximised profit (Wigand, Becker, and Steger 2020). Therefore, the dichotomy between individualism and collectivism, a central point in the characterisation of national cultures (Hofstede 2015), could play a role in epidemics. In fact, concerning erectile dysfunction treatment, some cialis brand name buy online authors have described a greater impact of the cialis in those countries with higher levels of individualism (Maaravi et al.

However, this finding should be complemented with other national cultures’ aspects before concluding that collectivism itself exerts a protective role against epidemics. Concerning this, it has been shown how ‘power distance’ frequently intersects with collectivism, being only a few countries in which the last one coexists with a small distance to power, namely with a capacity to disobey the power authority (Gupta, Shoja, and Mikalef 2021). Moreover, those countries classically classified as ‘collectivist’ (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, etc.) are also characterised by high levels of power distance, and their citizens have been quite often forced to adhere to erectile dysfunction treatment restrictions and punished if not (Gupta, Shoja, and Mikalef 2021).

Thus, it is important to consider that individualism is not always opposed to ‘look after each other’ (Ozkan et al. 2021, 9). For instance, the European region, seen as a whole as highly ‘individualistic’, holds some of the most advanced welfare protection systems worldwide.

It is worth considering too that collectivism may hide sometimes a hard institutional authority or a lack in civil freedoms.Coming back to La Peste, we may think that Camus’s Oranians are not particularly ‘collectivist’. Their initial description highlights that they are mainly interested in their own businesses and affairs:Our fellow-citizens work a good deal, but always in order to make money. They are especially interested in trade and first of all, as they say, they are engaged in doing business.

(Camus 2002, Part I)And later, we see some of them trying selfishly to leave the city by illegal methods. By contrast, we observe in the novel some examples of more ‘collectivistic’ attitudes, such as the discipline of those quarantined at the football pitch, and, over all, the main characters’ behaviour, which is generally driven by auism and common goals.Turning to another topic, the plague in Oran and erectile dysfunction treatment are similar regarding their animal origin. This is not rare since many infectious diseases pass to humans through contact with animal vectors, being rodents, especially rats (through rat fleas), the most common carriers of plague bacteria (CDC.

N.d.a, ECDC. N.d, Pollitzer 1954). Concerning erectile dysfunction, even if further research about its origin is needed, the most recent investigations conducted in China by the WHO establish a zoonotic transmission as the most probable pathway (Joint WHO-China Study Team 2021).

In Camus’s novel, the animal’s link to the epidemic seemed very clear since the beginning:Things got to the point where Infodoc (the agency for information and documentation, ‘ all you need to know on any subject’) announced in its free radio news programme that 6,231 rats had been collected and burned in a single day, the 25th. This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. (Camus 2002, Part I)This accuracy in figures is familiar to us.

People nowadays have become very used to the statistical aspects of the cialis, due to the continuous updates in epidemiological parameters launched by the media and the authorities. Camus was aware about the relevance of figures in epidemics, which always entail:…required registration and statistical tasks. (Camus 2002, Part II)Because of this, the novel is scattered with numbers, most of them concerning the daily death toll, but others mentioning the number of rats picked up, as we have seen, or combining the number of deaths with the time passed since the start of the epidemic:“ Will there be an autumn of plague?.

Professor B answers. €˜ No’ ”, “ One hundred and twenty-four dead. The total for the ninety-fourth day of the plague.” (Camus 2002, Part II)We permit ourselves to introduce here a list of recurring topics in La Peste, since the salience of statistical information is one of them.

These topics, some of which will be treated later, appear several times in the novel, in various contexts and stages in the evolution of the epidemic. We synthesise them in Table 1, coupled with a erectile dysfunction treatment parallel example extracted from online press. This ease to find a current example for each topic suggests that they are not exclusive of plague or of Camus’s mindset, but shared by most epidemics.View this table:Table 1 Recurring topics in La Peste.

Each topic is accompanied by two examples from the novel and one concerning erectile dysfunction treatment, extracted from online press.Talking about journalism and the media (one of the topics above), we might say that erectile dysfunction treatment’s coverage is frequently too optimistic when managing good news and too alarming when approaching the bad. Media’s ‘exaggerated’ approach to health issues is not new. It was already a concern for medical journals’ editors a century ago (Reiling 2013) and it continues to be it for these professionals in recent times (Barbour et al.

2008). It is well known that media tries to attract spectators’ attention by making the news more appealing. However, they deal with the risk of expanding unreliable information, which may be pernicious for the public opinion.

Related to the intention of ‘garnishing’ the news, Aslam et al. (2020) have described that 82% of more than 100 000 pieces of information about erectile dysfunction treatment appearing in media from different countries carried an emotional, either negative (52%) or positive (30%) component, with only 18% of them considered as ‘neutral’ (Aslam et al. 2020).

Some evidence about this tendency to make news more emotional was described in former epidemics. For instance, a study conducted in Singapore in 2009 during the H1N1 crisis showed how press releases by the Ministry of Health were substantially transformed when passed to the media, by increasing their emotional appeal and by changing their dominant frame or their tone (Lee and Basnyat 2013). In La Peste, this superficial way of managing information by the media is also observed:The newspapers followed the order that they had been given, to be optimistic at any cost.

(Camus 2002, Part IV)At the first stages of the epidemic in Oran, journalists proclaim the end of the dead rats’ invasion as something to be celebrated. Dr Rieux, the character through which Camus symbolises caution (and comparable nowadays to trustful scientists, well-informed journalists or sensible authorities), exposes then his own angle, quite far from suggesting optimism:The vendors of the evening papers were shouting that the invasion of rats had ended. But Rieux found his patient lying half out of bed, one hand on his belly and the other around his neck, convulsively vomiting reddish bile into a rubbish bin.

(Camus 2002, Part I)Camus, who worked as a journalist for many years, insists afterwards on this cursory interest that some media devote to the epidemic, more eager to grab the noise than the relevant issues beneath it:The press, which had had so much to say about the business of the rats, fell silent. This is because rats die in the street and people in their bedrooms. And newspapers are only concerned with the street.

(Camus 2002, Part I)By then, Oranians continue rejecting the epidemic as an actual threat, completely immersed in that phase that dominates the beginning of all epidemics and is characterised by ‘denial and disbelief’ (Wigand, Becker, and Steger 2020, 443):A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end. […] The people of our town were no more guilty than anyone else, they merely forgot to be modest and thought that everything was still possible for them, which implied that pestilence was impossible. They continued with business, with making arrangements for travel and holding opinions.

Why should they have thought about the plague, which negates the future, negates journeys and debate?. They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine. (Camus 2002, Part I)Probably to avoid citizens' disapproval, among other reasons, the Oranian Prefecture (health authority in Camus' novel) does not want to go too far when judging the relevance of the epidemic.

While not directly exposed, we can guess in this fragment the tone of the Prefect’s message, his intention to convey confidence despite his own doubts:These cases were not specific enough to be really disturbing and there was no doubt that the population would remain calm. None the less, for reasons of caution which everyone could understand, the Prefect was taking some preventive measures. If they were interpreted and applied in the proper way, these measures were such that they would put a definite stop to any threat of epidemic.

As a result, the Prefect did not for a moment doubt that the citizens under his charge would co-operate in the most zealous manner with what he was doing. (Camus 2002, Part I)The relevant role acquired by health authorities during epidemics is another topic listed in our table. Language use, on the other hand, is an issue linkable both with the media topic and with this one.

As in La Peste, during erectile dysfunction treatment we have seen some public figures using words not always truthfully, carrying out a careful selection of words that serves to the goal of conveying certain interests in each moment. Dr Rieux refers in Part I to this language manipulation by the authorities:The measures that had been taken were insufficient, that was quite clear. As for the ‘ specially equipped wards’, he knew what they were.

Two outbuildings hastily cleared of other patients, their windows sealed up and the whole surrounded by a cordon sanitaire. (Camus 2002, Part I)He illustrates the need of frankness, the preference for clarity in language, which is often the clarity in thinking:No. I phoned Richard to say we needed comprehensive measures, not fine words, and that either we must set up a real barrier to the epidemic, or nothing at all.

(Camus 2002, Part I)At the end of this part, his fears about the inadequacy of not taking strict measures are confirmed. Oranian hospitals become overwhelmed, as they are now in many places worldwide due to erectile dysfunction treatment.Part IILeft behind the phases of ‘denial and disbelief’ and of ‘fear and panic’, it appears among the Oranians the ‘acceptance paired with resignation’ (Wigand, Becker, and Steger 2020, 443):Then we knew that our separation was going to last, and that we ought to try to come to terms with time. […] In particular, all of the people in our town very soon gave up, even in public, whatever habit they may have acquired of estimating the length of their separation.

(Camus 2002, Part II)In erectile dysfunction treatment as well, even if border closure has not been so immovable as in Oran, many people have seen themselves separated from their loved ones and some of them have not yet had the possibility of reunion. This is why, in the actual cialis, the idea of temporal horizons has emerged like it appeared in Camus’s epidemic. In Spain, the general lockdown in March and April 2020 made people establish the summer as their temporal horizon, a time in which they could resume their former habits and see their relatives again.

This became partially true, and people were allowed in summer to travel inside the country and to some other countries nearby. However, there existed some reluctance to visit ill or aged relatives, due to the fear of infecting them, and some families living in distant countries were not able to get together. Moreover, autumn brought an increase in the number of cases (‘the second wave’) and countries returned to limit their internal and external movements.Bringing all this together, many people nowadays have opted to discard temporal horizons.

As Oranians, they have noted that the epidemic follows its own rhythm and it is useless to fight against it. Nonetheless, it is in human nature not to resign, so abandoning temporal horizons does not mean to give up longing for the recovery of normal life. This vision, neither maintaining vain hopes nor resigning, is in line with Camus’s philosophy, an author who wrote that ‘hope, contrary to what it is usually thought, is the same to resignation.’ (Camus 1939, 83.

Cited by Haroutunian 1964, 312 (translation is ours)), and that ‘there is not love to human life but with despair about human life.’ (Camus 1958, 112–5. Cited by Haroutunian 1964, 312–3 (translation is ours)).People nowadays deal with resignation relying on daily life pleasures (being not allowed to make further plans or trips) and in company from the nearest ones (as they cannot gather with relatives living far away). Second, they observe the beginning of vaccination campaigns as a first step of the final stage, and summer 2021, reflecting what happened with summer 2020, has been fixed as a temporal horizon.

This preference for summers has an unavoidable metaphorical nuance, and their linking to joy, long trips and life in the streets may be the reason for which we choose them to be opposed to the lockdown and restrictions of the cialis.We alluded previously to the manipulation of language, and figures, as relevant as they are, they are not free from manipulation either. Tarrou, a close friend to Dr Rieux, points out in this part of the novel how this occurred:Once more, Tarrou was the person who gave the most accurate picture of our life as it was then. Naturally he was following the course of the plague in general, accurately observing that a turning point in the epidemic was marked by the radio no longer announcing some hundreds of deaths per week, but 92, 107 and 120 deaths a day.

€˜The newspapers and the authorities are engaged in a battle of wits with the plague. They think that they are scoring points against it, because 130 is a lower figure than 910.’ (Camus 2002, Part II)Tarrou collaborates with the health teams formed to tackle the plague. Regarding these volunteers and workers, Camus refuses to consider them as heroes, as many essential workers during erectile dysfunction treatment have rejected to be named as that.

The writer thinks their actions are the natural behaviour of good people, not heroism but ‘a logical consequence’:The whole question was to prevent the largest possible number of people from dying and suffering a definitive separation. There was only one way to do this, which was to fight the plague. There was nothing admirable about this truth, it simply followed as a logical consequence.

(Camus 2002, Part II)We consider suitable to talk here about two issues which represent, nowadays, a great part of erectile dysfunction treatment fears and hopes, respectively. New genetic variants and treatments. Medical achievements are another recurrent issue included in table 1, and we write about them here because it is in Part II where Camus writes for the first time about treatments, and where it insists on an idea aforementioned in Part I.

That the plague bacillus affecting Oran is different from previous variants:…the microbe differed very slightly from the bacillus of plague as traditionally defined. (Camus 2002, Part II)Related to erectile dysfunction treatment new variants, they represent a challenge because of two main reasons. Their higher transmissibility and/or severity and their higher propensity to skip the effect of natural or treatment-induced immunity.

Public health professionals are determining which is the actual threat of all the new variants discovered, such as those first characterised in the UK (Public Health England 2020), South Africa (Tegally et al. 2021) or Brazil (Fujino et al. 2021).

In La Peste, Dr Rieux is always suspecting that the current bacteria they are dealing with is different from the one in previous epidemics of plague. Since several genetic variations for the bacillus Yersinia pestis have been characterised (Cui et al. 2012), it could be possible that the epidemic in Oran originated from a new one.

However, we should not forget that we are analysing a literary work, and that scientific accuracy is not a necessary goal in it. In fact, Rieux’s reluctances have to do more with clinical aspects than with microbiological ones. He doubts since the beginning, relying exclusively on the symptoms observed, and continues doing it after the laboratory analysis:I was able to have an analysis made in which the laboratory thinks it can detect the plague bacillus.

However, to be precise, we must say that certain specific modifications of the microbe do not coincide with the classic description of plague. (Camus 2002, Part II)Camus is consistent with this idea and many times he mentions the bacillus to highlight its oddity. Insisting on the literary condition of the work, and among other possible explanations, he is maybe declaring that that in the novel is not a common (biological, natural) bacteria, but the Nazism bacteria.Turning to treatments, they constitute the principal resource that the global community has to defeat the erectile dysfunction treatment cialis.

Vaccination campaigns have started all over the world, and three types of erectile dysfunction treatments are being applied in the European Union, after their respective statements of efficacy and security (Baden et al. 2021. Polack et al.

2020. Voysey et al. 2021), while a fourth treatment has just recently been approved (EMA 2021a).

Although some concerns regarding the safety of two of these treatments have been raised recently (EMA 2021b. EMA 2021c), vaccination plans are going ahead, being adapted according to the state of knowledge at each moment. Some of these treatments are mRNA-based (Baden et al.

2021. Polack et al. 2020), while others use a viral vector (Bos et al.

They are mainly two-shot treatments, with one exception (Bos et al. 2020), and complete immunity is thought to be acquired 2 weeks after the last shot (CDC. N.d.b, Voysey et al.

2021). Other countries such as China or Russia, on the other hand, were extremely early in starting their vaccination campaigns, and are distributing among their citizens different treatments than the aforementioned (Logunov et al. 2021.

Zhang et al. 2021).Even if at least three types of plague treatments had been created by the time the novel takes place (Sun 2016), treatments do not play an important role in La Peste, in which therapeutic measures (the serum) are more important than prophylactic ones. Few times in the novel the narrator refers to prophylactic inoculations:There was still no possibility of vaccinating with preventive serum except in families already affected by the disease.

(Camus 2002, Part II)Deudon has pointed out that Camus mixes up therapeutic serum and treatment (Deudon 1988), and in fact there exists a certain amount of confusion. All along the novel, the narrator focuses on the prophylactic goals of the serum, which is applied to people already infected (Othon’s son, Tarrou, Grand…). However, both in the example above (which can be understood as vaccinating household contacts or already affected individuals) and in others, the differences between treating and vaccinating are not clear:After the morning admissions which he was in charge of himself, the patients were vaccinated and the swellings lanced.

(Camus 2002, Part II)In any case, this is another situation in which Camus stands aside from scientific matters, which are to him less relevant in his novel than philosophical or literary ones. The distance existing between the relevance of treatments in erectile dysfunction treatment and the superficial manner with which Camus treats the topic in La Peste exemplifies this.Part IIIIn part III, the plague’s ravages become tougher. The narrator turns his focus to burials and their disturbance, a frequent topic in epidemics’ narrative (table 1).

Camus knew how acutely increasing demands and hygienic requirements affect funeral habits during epidemics:Everything really happened with the greatest speed and the minimum of risk. (Camus 2002, Part III)Like many other processes during epidemics, the burial process becomes a protocol. When protocolised, everything seems to work well and rapidly.

But this perfect mechanism is the Prefecture’s goal, not Rieux’s. He reveals in this moment an aspect in his character barely shown before. Irony.The whole thing was well organized and the Prefect expressed his satisfaction.

He even told Rieux that, when all was said and done, this was preferable to hearses driven by black slaves which one read about in the chronicles of earlier plagues. €˜ Yes,’ Rieux said. €˜ The burial is the same, but we keep a card index.

No one can deny that we have made progress.’ (Camus 2002, Part III)Even if this characteristic may seem new in Dr Rieux, we must bear in mind that he is the story narrator, and the narration is ironic from time to time. For instance, speaking precisely about the burials:The relatives were invited to sign a register –which just showed the difference that there may be between men and, for example, dogs. You can keep check of human beings-.

(Camus 2002, Part III)In Camus’s philosophy, the absurd is a core issue. According to Lengers, Rieux is ironic because he is a kind of Sisyphus who has understood the absurdity of plague (Lengers 1994). The response to the absurd is to rebel (Camus 2013), and Rieux does it by helping his fellow humans without questioning anything.

He does not pursue any other goal than doing his duty, thus humour (as a response to dire situations) stands out from him when he observes others celebrating irrelevant achievements, such as the Prefect with his burial protocol. In the field of medical ethics, Lengers has highlighted the importance of Camus’s perspective when considering ‘the immediacy of life rather than abstract values’ (Lengers 1994, 250). Rieux himself is quite sure that his solid commitment is not ‘abstract’, and, even if he falls into abstraction, the importance relies on protecting human lives and not in the name given to that task:Was it truly an abstraction, spending his days in the hospital where the plague was working overtime, bringing the number of victims up to five hundred on average per week?.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it. (Camus 2002, Part II)Farewells during erectile dysfunction treatment may have not been particularly pleasant for some families.

Neither those dying at nursing homes nor in hospitals could be accompanied by their families as previously, due to corpses management protocols, restrictions of external visitors and hygienic measures in general. However, as weeks passed by, certain efforts were made to ease this issue, allowing people to visit their dying beloved sticking to strict preventive measures. On the other hand, the number of people attending funeral masses and cemeteries was also limited, which affected the conventional development of ceremonies as well.

Hospitals had to deal with daily tolls of deaths never seen before, and the overcrowding of mortuaries made us see rows of coffins placed in unusual spaces, such as ice rinks (transformation of facilities is another topic in table 1).We turn now to two other points which erectile dysfunction treatment has not evaded. s among essential workers and epidemics’ economic consequences. The author links burials with s among essential workers because gravediggers constitute one of the most affected professions, and connects this fact with the economic recession because unemployment is behind the large availability of workers to replace the dead gravediggers:Many of the male nurses and the gravediggers, who were at first official, then casual, died of the plague.

[…] The most surprising thing was that there was never a shortage of men to do the job, for as long as the epidemic lasted. […] When the plague really took hold of the town, its very immoderation had one quite convenient outcome, because it disrupted the whole of economic life and so created quite a large number of unemployed. […] Poverty always triumphed over fear, to the extent that work was always paid according to the risk involved.

(Camus 2002, Part III)The effects of the plague over the economic system are one of our recurrent topics (table 1). The plague in Oran, as it forces to close the city, impacts all trading exchanges. In addition, it forbids travellers from arriving to the city, with the economic influence that that entails:This plague was the ruination of tourism.

(Camus 2002, Part II)Oranians, who, as we saw, were very worried about making money, are especially affected by an event which jeopardises it. In erectile dysfunction treatment, for one reason or for another, most of the countries are suffering economic consequences, since the impact on normal life from the epidemic (another recurrent topic) means also an impact on the normal development of trading activities.Part IVIn Part IV we witness the first signals of a stabilisation of the epidemic:It seemed that the plague had settled comfortably into its peak and was carrying out its daily murders with the precision and regularity of a good civil servant. In theory, in the opinion of experts, this was a good sign.

The graph of the progress of the plague, starting with its constant rise, followed by this long plateau, seemed quite reassuring. (Camus 2002, Part IV)At this time, we consider interesting to expand the topic about the transformation of facilities. We mentioned the case of ice rinks during erectile dysfunction treatment, and we bring up now the use of a football pitch as a quarantine camp in Camus’s novel, a scene which has reminded some scholars of the metaphor of Nazism and concentration camps (Finel-Honigman 1978).

In Spain, among other measures, a fairground was enabled as a field hospital during the first wave, and it is plausible that many devices created with other purposes were used in tasks attached to healthcare provision during those weeks, as occurred in Oran’s pitch with the loudspeakers:Then the loudspeakers, which in better times had served to introduce the teams or to declare the results of games, announced in a tinny voice that the internees should go back to their tents so that the evening meal could be distributed. (Camus 2002, Part IV)Related to this episode, we can also highlight the opposition between science and humanism that Camus does. The author alerts us about the dangers of a dehumanised science, of choosing procedures perfectly efficient regardless of their lack in human dignity:The men held out their hands, two ladles were plunged into two of the pots and emerged to unload their contents onto two tin plates.

The car drove on and the process was repeated at the next tent.‘ It’s scientific,’ Tarrou told the administrator.‘ Yes,’ he replied with satisfaction, as they shook hands. €˜ It’s scientific.’ (Camus 2002, Part IV)Several cases with favourable outcomes mark Part IV final moments and prepare the reader for the end of the epidemic. To describe these signs of recovering, the narrator turns back to two elements with a main role in the novel.

Rats and figures. In this moment, the first ones reappear and the second ones seem to be declining:He had seen two live rats come into his house through the street door. Neighbours had informed him that the creatures were also reappearing in their houses.

Behind the walls of other houses there was a hustle and bustle that had not been heard for months. Rieux waited for the general statistics to be published, as they were at the start of each week. They showed a decline in the disease.

(Camus 2002, Part IV)Part VGiven that we continue facing erectile dysfunction treatment, and that forecasts about its end are not easy, we cannot compare ourselves with the Oranians once they have reached the end of the epidemic, what occurs in this part. However, we can analyse our current situation, characterised by a widespread, though cautious, confidence motivated by the beginning of vaccination campaigns, referring it to the events narrated in Part V.Even more than the Oranians, since we feel further than them from the end of the problem, we are cautious about not to anticipate celebrations. From time to time, however, we lend ourselves to dream relying on what the narrator calls ‘a great, unadmitted hope’.

erectile dysfunction treatment took us by surprise and everyone wants to ‘reorganise’ their life, as Oranians do, but patience is an indispensable component to succeed, as fictional and historical epidemics show us.Although this sudden decline in the disease was unexpected, the towns-people were in no hurry to celebrate. The preceding months, though they had increased the desire for liberation, had also taught them prudence and accustomed them to count less and less on a rapid end to the epidemic. However, this new development was the subject of every conversation and, in the depths of people’s hearts, there was a great, unadmitted hope.

[…] One of the signs that a return to a time of good health was secretly expected (though no one admitted the fact) was that from this moment on people readily spoke, with apparent indifference, about how life would be reorganized after the plague. (Camus 2002, Part V)We put our hope on vaccination. Social distancing and other hygienic measures have proved to be effective, but treatments would bring us a more durable solution without compromising so hardly many economic activities and social habits.

As we said, a more important role of scientific aspects is observed in erectile dysfunction treatment if compared with La Peste (an expected fact if considered that Camus’s story is an artistic work, that he skips sometimes the most complex scientific issues of the plague and that health sciences have evolved substantially during last decades). Oranians, in fact, achieve the end of the epidemic not through clearly identified scientific responses but with certain randomness:All one could do was to observe that the sickness seemed to be going as it had arrived. The strategy being used against it had not changed.

It had been ineffective yesterday, and now it was apparently successful. One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all its objectives. In a sense, its role was completed.

(Camus 2002, Part V)They receive the announcement made by the Prefecture of reopening the town’s gates in 2 weeks time with enthusiasm. Dealing with concrete dates gives them certainty, helps them fix the temporal horizons we wrote about. This is also the case when they are told that preventive measures would be lifted in 1 month.

Camus shows us then how the main characters are touched as well by this positive atmosphere:That evening Tarrou and Rieux, Rambert and the rest, walked in the midst of the crowd, and they too felt they were treading on air. Long after leaving the boulevards Tarrou and Rieux could still hear the sounds of happiness following them… (Camus 2002, Part V)Then, Tarrou points out a sign of recovery coming from the animal world. In a direct zoological chain, infected fleas have vanished from rats, which have been able again to multiply across the city, making the cats abandon their hiding places and to go hunting after them again.

At the final step of this chain, Tarrou sees the human being. He remembers the old man who used to spit to the cats beneath his window:At a time when the noise grew louder and more joyful, Tarrou stopped. A shape was running lightly across the dark street.

It was a cat, the first that had been seen since the spring. It stopped for a moment in the middle of the road, hesitated, licked its paw, quickly passed it across its right ear, then carried on its silent way and vanished into the night. Tarrou smiled.

The little old man, too, would be happy. (Camus 2002, Part V)Unpleasant things as a town with rats running across its streets, or a man spending his time spitting on a group of cats, constitute normality as much as the reopening of gates or the reboot of commerce. However, when Camus speaks directly about normality, he highlights more appealing habits.

He proposes common leisure activities (restaurants, theatres) as symbols of human life, since he opposes them to Cottard’s life, which has become that of a ‘wild animal’:At least in appearance he [ Cottard ] retired from the world and from one day to the next started to live like a wild animal. He no longer appeared in restaurants, at the theatre or in his favourite cafés. (Camus 2002, Part V)We do not disclose why Cottard’s reaction to the end of the epidemic is different from most of the Oranians’.

In any case, the narrator insists later on the assimilation between common pleasures and normality:‘ Perhaps,’ Cottard said, ‘ Perhaps so. But what do you call a return to normal life?. €™ ‘ New films in the cinema,’ said Tarrou with a smile.

(Camus 2002, Part V)Cinema, as well as theatre, live music and many other cultural events have been cancelled or obliged to modify their activities due to erectile dysfunction treatment. Several bars and restaurants have closed, and spending time in those who remain open has become an activity which many people tend to avoid, fearing contagion. Thus, normality in our understanding is linked as well to these simple and pleasant habits, and the complete achievement of them will probably signify for us the desired defeat of the cialis.In La Peste, love is also seen as a simple good to be fully recovered after the plague.

While Rieux goes through the ‘reborn’ Oran, it is lovers’ gatherings what he highlights. Unlike them, everyone who, during the epidemic, sought for goals different from love (such as faith or money, for instance) remain lost when the epidemic has ended:For all the people who, on the contrary, had looked beyond man to something that they could not even imagine, there had been no reply. (Camus 2002, Part V)And this is because lovers, as the narrator says:If they had found that they wanted, it was because they had asked for the only thing that depended on them.

(Camus 2002, Part V)We have spoken before about language manipulation, hypocrisy and public figures’ roles during epidemics. Camus, during Dr Rieux’s last visit to the old asthmatic man, makes this frank and humble character criticise, with a point of irony, the authorities’ attitude concerning tributes to the dead:‘ Tell me, doctor, is it true that they’re going to put up a monument to the victims of the plague?. €™â€˜ So the papers say.

A pillar or a plaque.’‘ I knew it!. And there’ll be speeches.’The old man gave a strangled laugh.‘ I can hear them already. €œ Our dead…” Then they’ll go and have dinner.’ (Camus 2002, Part V)The old man illustrates wisely the authorities’ propensity for making speeches.

He knows that most of them usually prefer grandiloquence rather than common words, and seizes perfectly their tone when he imitates them (‘Our dead…’). We have also got used, during erectile dysfunction treatment, to these types of messages. We have also heard about ‘our old people’, ‘our youth’, ‘our essential workers’ and even ‘our dead’.

Behind this tone, however, there could be an intention to hide errors, or to falsely convey carefulness. Honest rulers do not usually need nice words. They just want them to be accurate.We have seen as well some tributes to the victims during erectile dysfunction treatment, some of which we can doubt whether they serve to victims’ relief or to authorities’ promotion.

We want rulers to be less aware of their own image and to stress truthfulness as a goal, even if this is a hard requirement not only for them, but for every single person. Language is essential in this issue, we think, since it is prone to be twisted and to become untrue. The old asthmatic man illustrates it with his ‘There’ll be speeches’ and his ‘Our dead…’, but this is not the only time in the novel in which Camus brings out the topic.

For instance, he does so when he equates silence (nothing can be thought as further from wordiness) with truth:It is at the moment of misfortune that one becomes accustomed to truth, that is to say to silence. (Camus 2002, Part II)or when he makes a solid statement against false words:…I understood that all the misfortunes of mankind came from not stating things in clear terms. (Camus 2002, Part IV)The old asthmatic, in fact, while praising the deceased Tarrou, remarks that he used to admire him because ‘he didn’t talk just for the sake of it.’ (Camus 2002, Part V).Related to this topic, what the old asthmatic says about political authorities may be transposed in our case to other public figures, such as scholars and researchers, media leaders, businessmen and women, health professionals… and, if we extend the scope, to every single citizen.

Because hypocrisy, language manipulation and the fact of putting individual interests ahead of collective welfare fit badly with collective issues such as epidemics. Hopefully, also examples to the contrary have been observed during erectile dysfunction treatment.The story ends with the fireworks in Oran and the depiction of Dr Rieux’s last feelings. While he is satisfied because of his medical performance and his activity as a witness of the plague, he is concerned about future disasters to come.

When erectile dysfunction treatment will have passed, it will be time for us as well to review our life during these months. For now, we are just looking forward to achieving our particular ‘part V’.AbstractThis study addresses the existing gap in literature that ethnographically examines the experiences of Spanish-speaking patients with limited English proficiency in clinical spaces. All of the participants in this study presented to the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of non-urgent health conditions.

Patient shadowing was employed to explore the challenges that this population face in unique clinical settings like the ED. This relatively new methodology facilitates obtaining nuanced understandings of clinical contexts under study in ways that quantitative approaches and survey research do not. Drawing from the field of medical anthropology and approach of narrative medicine, the collected data are presented through the use of clinical ethnographic vignettes and thick description.

The conceptual framework of health-related deservingness guided the analysis undertaken in this study. Structural stigma was used as a complementary framework in analysing the emergent themes in the data collected. The results and analysis from this study were used to develop an argument for the consideration of language as a distinct social determinant of health.emergency medicinemedical anthropologymedical humanitiesData availability statementData sharing not applicable as no datasets were generated and/or analysed for this study..

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But at least some of the traditional short-term plans available in Idaho do have terms in excess of six months.]Idaho’s short-term health insurance regulationsIn 2018, Idaho tried to get CMS approval for “state-based” plans that would have skirted various cialis 20mg price ACA requirements and regulations. CMS rejected that proposal. But they indicated that the state could modify the proposal and use short-term health insurance rules in order to accomplish much of its goals without the need for additional federal approval.So in April 2019, Idaho enacted legislation (H.275) that allows cialis 20mg price for the creation of “enhanced” short-term plans. While these plans are still required cialis 20mg price to have initial terms that are under 12 months, they’re renewable “at the option of the insured.” That’s an important distinction. The federal short-term plans regulations that were finalized in 2018 allow short-term plans to be renewable, but at the discretion of the insurer.

Idaho’s new cialis 20mg price legislation requires insurers that offer “enhanced” short-term plans to let members renew their coverage.In keeping with federal regulations, total plan duration, including renewals, cannot exceed 36 months. But H.275 also indicates that the insurer will have to allow a member to reapply for another policy after one policy ends and its renewal opportunities have been exhausted [see 41-5207(h)]. And the regulations the state has cialis 20mg price issued go even further, noting that “enhanced short-term plans must be reissued at the option of the enrollee, upon exhausting any renewability due to duration or age,” and that “no new application or questions concerning the health or medical condition of the covered individuals may be requested to effectuate the reissuance.” (emphasis added)H.275 called for the addition of Section 5214 to Idaho Code Title 41, Chapter 52, which had been added by mid-2019. The legislation stated that the new rules would be effective immediately, and an April 2019 bulletin published by the Idaho Department of Insurance noted that short-term plans with “limited renewability” were likely to be available in Idaho by 2020.Blue Cross of Idaho began selling enhanced short-term plans as of December 1, 2019, and SelectHealth also began offering the plans as of early 2020. Both insurers are continuing to sell enhanced short-term plans, as well as traditional short-term plans cialis 20mg price.

The Idaho Department of Insurance published a news release in 2016, cautioning residents about the potential drawbacks and limitations of short-term health insurance, while noting that the plans can be appropriate for people who missed open enrollment and don’t have access to a cialis 20mg price special enrollment period for ACA-compliant coverage. This was well before the state created the new “enhanced” short-term plan pathway, and although the drawbacks noted in the news release are still applicable to regular short-term plans, they mostly do not apply to the enhanced short-term plans.Idaho’s requirements for enhanced short-term plansRulemaking activity for Idaho’s new enhanced short-term plans is available here. The state published temporary cialis 20mg price rules that took effect in July 2019, and a proposed final rule was published in October 2019. The Idaho Department of Insurance also published an at-a-glance guide to how enhanced short-term plans compare with traditional short-term plans, and the full set of rules that apply to traditional and enhanced short-term plans are available in Idaho Administrative Code Section 18.04.15.Insurers can choose to offer year-round availability or to limit enrollment to the same enrollment window that applies to ACA-compliant plans. If the plan is available year-round, the insurer can impose a waiting period for pre-existing cialis 20mg price conditions.

If the plan is only available during open enrollment, no pre-existing condition waiting period can be applied (SelectHealth and Blue Cross of Idaho both offer plans that have waiting periods for pre-existing conditions).Insurers that offer enhanced short-term plans must also offer qualified health plans through Your Health Idaho (the state-run exchange) in the same areas.Enhanced short-term plans must be offered on a guaranteed-issue basis (but insurers can base premiums on medical history, and can impose a waiting period for pre-existing conditions).Coverage under an enhanced short-term plan is considered qualifying coverage that allows a person’s pre-existing condition waiting period to be waived. So if a person renews their short-term plan after the first year, there cialis 20mg price will no longer be any waiting periods for pre-existing conditions during the second year.Enhanced short-term plans must be guaranteed renewable (for up to 36 months of total duration). The insurer cannot require a new application or new medical history questions during the renewal process.Although the plans are capped at 36 months (in accordance with federal rules for short-term plans), insurers are required to allow enrollees to re-enroll in a new plan after the first one expires, and no new application or medical history questions can be used.When a person has had cialis 20mg price coverage under an enhanced short-term plan for at least 11 months and the policy is terminating, they are eligible to enroll in any of the insurer’s ACA-compliant plans at that point (regardless of whether open enrollment is underway).Enhanced short-term plans cannot vary rates based on gender, although they can use an applicant’s medical history to set rates.Geographic rating areas must be the same as the rating areas used for ACA-compliant plans.Enhanced short-term plan enrollees must be incorporated into the same risk pool as the insurer’s other individual market enrollees.Enhanced short-term plans must provide benefits in line with the state’s benchmark plan for essential health benefits, and cannot impose annual benefit caps under $1,000,000.Regular non-renewable short-term health insurance in Idaho continues to be available with total durations of up to one year. They are not guaranteed issue, but premiums can only vary based on age, tobacco use, and zip code (this is generally how rating rules work for short-term plans nationwide. Applicants are cialis 20mg price either accepted or declined based on overall medical history.

If they’re accepted, the premiums are based on only a few variables).In 2017, the Idaho Department of Insurance published an overview of health coverage in the state. As of 2016, there were 3,769 people with short-term health insurance in Idaho, which was a decrease of 13.3 cialis 20mg price percent since 2015. But Idaho’s new “enhanced” short-term plans, which became available for 2020, are very different from regular short-term plans. Overall short-term cialis 20mg price plan enrollment in the states could end up growing significantly as a result. Which insurers offer short-term plans in Idaho?.

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(D, NJ) cialis 20mg price and Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to CMS, asking them to step in and prevent Your Health Idaho from offering enhanced short-term plans through the exchange. They noted that the ACA only allows qualified health plans (QHPs) to be sold in the exchange. And while Idaho’s enhanced short-term plans offer much more robust coverage than a typical short-term plan, they are not QHPs.[There was one error in cialis 20mg price the letter, however. It states that Idaho’s plans wouldn’t have to cover cialis 20mg price essential health benefits, when in fact, they are required to do so in accordance with the state’s benchmark plan.] Who can get short-term health insurance in IdahoShort-term health insurance in Idaho can be purchased by applicants who can meet the underwriting guidelines the insurers use.Traditional short-term health plans typically include blanket exclusions for pre-existing conditions, so they will not be adequate for residents of the Gem State who need certain medical care for ongoing health conditions. Enhanced short-term plans are guaranteed-issue, but insurers can base premiums on a person’s medical history and can impose a waiting period before pre-existing conditions are covered.If you need health insurance in Idaho, your first step should be to see if you’re eligible to enroll in an ACA-compliant major medical plan.

These plans are available during cialis 20mg price the annual open enrollment period from November 1 to December 15, and during special enrollment periods triggered by a variety of qualifying life events. ACA-compliant plans are available through Your Health Idaho (the Obamacare exchange/marketplace in the state) or directly from the health insurance companies, although premium subsidies are only available through the exchange (if you’re eligible for a premium subsidy, you may find that your monthly premiums are far more affordable than you had expected).ACA-compliant policies are purchased on a month-to-month basis, so you can enroll in one even if you keep it for only a few months until other coverage kicks in. So for example, if you’ll soon be eligible for Medicare or a new employer’s plan, cialis 20mg price you can still enroll in an ACA-compliant plan during open enrollment or a special enrollment period, and then cancel it when your new coverage takes effect.But if you’re unable to enroll in an ACA-compliant policy, a short-term health insurance plan is certainly better than remaining uninsured. And Idaho’s enhanced short-term plans include far more consumer protections than the short-term plans that are available in most other states.When should I consider short-term health insurance in Idaho?. There are certain situations where you may need to consider short-term coverage, such as:If you missed open enrollment for ACA-compliant coverage and don’t have a qualifying event for a special enrollment period.You’ll be enrolling in Medicare soon and don’t have access to an ACA-compliant individual or employer-sponsored plan in the meantime.You’ve enrolled in an ACA-compliant plan but have to cialis 20mg price wait up to several weeks before it takes effect.You’re newly employed but the business has a waiting period of up to three months before you can enroll in your employer’s healthcare plan.If you’re not eligible for Medicaid or a premium subsidy for an ACA-compliant plan, and need a more affordable option than a full-price ACA-compliant plan.

People who are ineligible for cialis 20mg price premium subsidies include:Idahoans who earn incomes 400% above the federal poverty level. (For 2021 coverage, that amounts to $51,040 for a single person. If your ACA-specific modified adjusted gross cialis 20mg price income is just a little above the subsidy-eligible threshold, there are steps you can take to reduce it).People who are caught by the ACA’s family glitch.People who are ineligible to enroll in a plan through the exchange because they are not lawfully present in the US.Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since 2006. She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.org. Her state cialis 20mg price health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts.Key takeaways Did the ACA improve access to health coverage for immigrants?.

For more than a decade, roughly one million people per year have been granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. In addition, there are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S, although that number has fallen from a high of more than 12 million in 2005.New immigrants can obtain cialis 20mg price health insurance from a variety of sources, including employer-sponsored plans, the individual market, and health plans that are marketed specifically for immigrants.The Affordable Care Act has made numerous changes to our health insurance system over the last several years. But recent immigrants are often confused in terms of what health insurance options are available to them. And persistent myths about the ACA have made it hard to discern what’s true and what’s not in terms of how the ACA applies to immigrants.So let’s take a look at the health insurance options for immigrants, and how they’ve changed – or haven’t changed – under the cialis 20mg price ACA.Use our calculator to estimate how much you could save on your ACA-compliant health insurance premiums.Can any immigrant select from available health plans during open enrollment?. Open enrollment for individual-market health insurance coverage runs from November 1 to December 15 in most states.During this cialis 20mg price window, any non-incarcerated, lawfully present U.S.

Resident can enroll in a health plan through the exchange in their state – or outside the exchange, if that’s their preference, although financial assistance is not available outside the exchange.Are immigrants eligible for health insurance premium subsidies?. You do not have to be a U.S cialis 20mg price. Citizen to benefit from the ACA. If you’re in cialis 20mg price the U.S. Legally – regardless of how long you’ve been here – you’re eligible for subsidies in the exchange if your income is in the subsidy-eligible range and you don’t have access to an affordable, minimum value plan from an employer.

Premium subsidies are available to exchange enrollees if their income is between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal cialis 20mg price poverty level (FPL), but subsidies also extend below the poverty level for recent immigrants, as described below.(A new rule issued by the Trump administration in 2019 expanded on the long-standing “public charge” rule. This rule took effect cialis 20mg price in early 2020. It was vacated by a federal judge as of November 2020, but that order was stayed by an appeals court just two days later, meaning that the Trump administration’s public charge rule can still be implemented while litigation continues on this case. Under the public charge rule, receiving premium subsidies in the exchange does not make a person a public charge under the new rule, but not receiving premium subsidies is considered a “heavily weighted positive factor” in the overall determination of whether a person cialis 20mg price is likely to be a public charge. This is discussed in more detail below.)Lawfully present immigrant status applies to a wide range of people, including those with “non-immigrant” status such as work visas and student visas.

So even cialis 20mg price if you’re only in the U.S. Temporarily — for a year of studying abroad, for example — you can purchase coverage in the health insurance exchange for the state you’re living in while in the US. And depending on your income, you might be eligible for a premium subsidy to offset cialis 20mg price some of the cost of the coverage. Special enrollment period for new citizensWhen you cialis 20mg price become a new U.S. Citizen or gain lawfully present status, you’re entitled to a special enrollment period in your state’s exchange.

You’ll have 60 days from the date you became a citizen or a lawfully present resident to enroll in a plan through the exchange, with subsidies if you’re eligible for them.There are a variety of other special enrollment cialis 20mg price periods that apply to people experiencing various qualifying life events. These special enrollment periods are available to immigrants and non-immigrants alike.Are recent immigrants eligible for ACA subsidies?. The ACA called for expansion of Medicaid to all adults with income cialis 20mg price up to 138 percent of the poverty level, and no exchange subsidies for enrollees with income below the poverty level, since they’re supposed to have Medicaid instead. But Medicaid isn’t available in most states to recent immigrants until they’ve been lawfully present in the U.S. For five years cialis 20mg price.

To get around this problem, Congress included a provision in the ACA to allow recent immigrants to get subsidies in the exchange regardless of how low their income is.Low-income, lawfully present immigrants – who would be eligible for Medicaid based on income, but are barred from Medicaid because of their immigration status – are eligible to enroll in plans through the exchange with full subsidies during the five years when Medicaid is not available. Their premiums for the second-lowest-cost Silver plan are capped at 2.07 percent of income in cialis 20mg price 2021 (this number changes slightly each year).In early 2015, Andrew Sprung explained that this provision of the ACA wasn’t well understood during the first open enrollment period, even by call center staff. So there may well have been low-income cialis 20mg price immigrants who didn’t end up enrolling due to miscommunication. But this issue is now likely to be much better understood by exchange staff, brokers, and enrollment assisters. If you’re in this situation and are told that you can’t get subsidies, don’t give up — ask to speak with a supervisor who can help you (for reference, this issue cialis 20mg price is detailed in ACA Section 1401(c)(1)(B), and it appears on page 113 of the text of the ACA).Lawmakers included subsidies for low-income immigrants who weren’t eligible for Medicaid specifically to avoid a coverage gap.

Ironically, there are currently about 2.3 million people in 13 states who are in a coverage gap that exists because those states have refused to expand Medicaid (two of those states — Missouri and Oklahoma — will expand Medicaid as of mid-2021, and Georgia will partially expand Medicaid, eliminating the coverage gap. At that cialis 20mg price point, there will only be 10 states with coverage gaps). Congress went out of their way to ensure that there would be no coverage gap for recent immigrants, but they couldn’t anticipate that the Supreme Court would make Medicaid optional for the states and that numerous states would block expansion, leading to a coverage gap for millions of U.S. Citizens.The ACA also limits premiums for older enrollees to three times the premiums charged cialis 20mg price for younger enrollees. So there cialis 20mg price are essentially caps on the premiums that apply to elderly recent immigrants who are using the individual market in place of Medicare, even if their income is too high to qualify for subsidies.Are undocumented immigrants eligible for ACA coverage?.

Although the ACA provides benefits to U.S. Citizens and lawfully present immigrants alike, it does not directly provide any benefits for undocumented immigrants.The ACA specifically prevents non-lawfully present immigrants from enrolling in coverage through the exchanges cialis 20mg price [section 1312(f)(3)]. And they are also not eligible for Medicaid under federal guidelines. So the two major cornerstones of coverage expansion under the cialis 20mg price ACA are not available to undocumented immigrants.Some states have implemented programs to cover undocumented immigrants, particularly children and/or pregnant women. For example, Oregon’s Cover All Kids program provides coverage to kids in households with income up to 305 percent of the poverty level, regardless of immigration status.

California has had a similar program for children since 2016, and as of 2020, it cialis 20mg price also applied to young adults through the age of 25. New York covers kids and pregnant women in its Medicaid program regardless of cialis 20mg price income, and covers emergency care for other undocumented immigrants in certain circumstances.It’s important to understand that if you’re lawfully present, you can enroll in a plan through the exchange even if some members of your family are not lawfully present. Family members who aren’t applying for coverage are not asked for details about their immigration status. And HealthCare.gov clarifies that immigration details you provide to the exchange during your enrollment and verification process are not shared cialis 20mg price with any immigration authorities.How many undocumented immigrants are uninsured?. In terms of the insurance status of undocumented immigrants, the numbers tend to be rough estimates, since exact data regarding undocumented immigrants can be difficult to pin down.

But according to Pew cialis 20mg price Research data, there were 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. As of 2014.According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, undocumented immigrants are significantly more likely to be uninsured than U.S. Citizens. 45 percent of undocumented immigrants are uninsured, versus about 8 percent of citizens.So more than half of the undocumented immigrant population has some form of health insurance coverage. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt noted via Twitter that “some are buying non-group, but I’d agree that it’s primarily employer coverage.” And in 2014, Los Angeles Times writer Lisa Zamosky explained the various options that undocumented immigrants in California were using to obtain coverage, including student health plans, employer-sponsored coverage, and individual (i.e., non-group) plans purchased off-exchange (on-exchange, enrollees are required to provide proof of legal immigration status).Uninsured undocumented immigrants do have access to some healthcare services, regardless of their ability to pay.

Federal law (EMTALA) requires Medicare-participating hospitals to provide screening and stabilization services for anyone who enters their emergency rooms, without regard for insurance or residency status.Since emergency rooms are the most expensive setting for healthcare, local officials in many areas have opted for less expensive alternatives. Of the 25 U.S counties with the largest number of undocumented immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reports that 20 have programs in place to fund primary and surgical care for low-income uninsured county residents, typically regardless of their immigration status.Do ACA exchanges check the status of immigrants who want to buy coverage?. As part of the enrollment process, the exchanges are required to verify lawfully present status. In 2014, enrollments were terminated for approximately 109,000 people who had initially enrolled through HealthCare.gov, but who were unable to provide the necessary proof of legal residency (enrollees generally have 95 days to provide documentation to resolve data matching issues for immigration status).By the end of June 2015, coverage in the federally facilitated exchange had been terminated for roughly 306,000 people who had enrolled in coverage for 2015 but had not provided adequate documentation to prove their lawfully-present status. In the first three months of 2016, coverage in the federally facilitated exchange was terminated for roughly 17,000 people who had unresolved immigration data matching issues, and coverage was terminated for the same reason for another 113,000 enrollees during the second quarter of 2016.There’s concern among consumer advocates that some lawfully present residents have encountered barriers to enrollment – or canceled coverage – due to data-matching issues.

If you’re lawfully present in the U.S (which includes a wide range of immigration statuses), you can legally use the exchange, and qualify for subsidies if you’re otherwise eligible. Be prepared, however, for the possibility that you might have to prove your lawfully present status.There are enrollment assisters in your community who can help you with this process if necessary. But if you’re not lawfully present, you cannot enroll through the exchange, even if you’re willing to pay full price for your coverage. You can, however, apply for an ACA-compliant plan outside the exchange, as there’s no federal restriction on that.Should immigrants consider short-term health insurance?. Immigrants who are unable to afford ACA-compliant coverage might find that a short-term health insurance plan will fit their needs, and it’s far better than being uninsured.

Short-term plans are not sold through the health insurance exchanges, so the exchange requirement that enrollees provide proof of legal residency does not apply with short-term plans.Short-term plans provide coverage that’s less comprehensive than ACA-compliant plans, and for the most part, they do not provide any coverage for pre-existing conditions. But for healthy applicants who can qualify for coverage, a short-term plan is far better than no coverage at all. And the premiums for short-term plans are far lower than the unsubsidized premiums for ACA-compliant plans.Recent immigrants who are eligible for premium subsidies in the exchange will likely be best served by enrolling in a plan through the exchange — the coverage will be comprehensive, with no limits on annual or lifetime benefits and no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. But healthy applicants who aren’t eligible for subsidies (including those affected by the family glitch, and those with income just a little above 400 percent of the poverty level), as well as those who might find it difficult to prove their immigration status to the exchange, may find that a short-term policy is their best option.With any insurance plan, it’s important to read the fine print and understand the ins and outs of the coverage. But that’s particularly important with short-term plans, as they’re not regulated by federal law (other than the rules that limit their terms to no more than 364 days, and total duration to no more than 36 months including renewals).

Some states have extensive rules for short-term plans, so availability varies considerably from one state to another (you can click on a state on this map to see how the state regulates short-term plans).Travel insurance plans are another option, particularly for people who will be in the U.S. Temporarily and who don’t qualify for premium subsidies in the exchange. Just like short-term plans, travel insurance policies are not compliant with the ACA, so they generally won’t cover pre-existing conditions, tend to have gaps in their coverage (since they don’t have to cover all of the essential health benefits) and will come with limits on how much they’ll pay for an enrollee’s medical care. But if the other alternative is to go uninsured, a travel insurance plan is far better than no coverage at all.How are states making efforts to insure undocumented immigrants?. California wanted to open up its state-run exchange to undocumented immigrants who can pay full price for their coverage.

The state already changed the rules to allow for the provision of Medicaid (Medi-Cal) to undocumented immigrant children, starting in 2016 (and expanded this to young adults as of 2020). As a result, about 170,000 children in California gained access to coverage.And in June 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB10 into law, setting the stage for the state to eventually allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in coverage (without subsidies) through Covered California, the state-run exchange.In September 2016, after obtaining public comment on the proposal, Covered California submitted their 1332 Innovation Waiver to CMS, requesting the ability to allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in full-price coverage through Covered California. But in January 2017, just two days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the state withdrew their waiver proposal, citing concerns that the Trump Administration might use information from Covered California to deport undocumented immigrants.New York lawmakers considered legislation in 2019 that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to purchase full-price coverage in NY’s state-based exchange, but it did not progress in the legislature. As noted in the text of the legislation, New York would have needed to obtain federal permission to implement this law if the state had enacted it.Trump administration’s public charge rule and immigrant health insurance rule have both been blocked by the courts, but the public charge rule can still be implemented in many statesIn August 2019, the Trump administration finalized rule changes for the government’s existing “public charge” policy, after proposing changes nearly a year earlier. And in October 2019, President Trump issued a proclamation to suspend new immigrant visas for people who are unable to prove that they’ll be able to purchase (non-taxpayer funded) health insurance within 30 days of entering the US “unless the alien possesses the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.” But both of these rules have since been blocked by federal judges.The public charge rule was slated to take effect October 15, 2019, but federal judges blocked it on October 11, temporarily delaying implementation.

In January 2020, the Supreme Court ruled (in a 5-4 vote) that the public charge rule could take effect while an appeal was pending, and it took effect in February 2020. The Supreme Court declined to temporarily pause the rule amid the erectile dysfunction treatment cialis. But U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman, in Chicago, vacated the rule in its entirety, nationwide, as of November 2020. Just two days later, however, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Judge Feinerman’s order, allowing the Trump administration’s version of the public charge rule to continue to be implemented while litigation on this case continues.

On December 2, however, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule from being applied in 18 states and DC. So as of December 2020, the public charge rule can be used by immigration officials in some states but not in others.A 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the rule indicated that millions of people might disenroll from Medicaid and CHIP (even though CHIP enrollment is not a negatively weighted factor under the new rule) over concerns about the public charge rule, and that “coverage losses also will likely decrease revenues and increase uncompensated care for providers and have spillover effects within communities.”In addition to the public charge rule being vacated (albeit very temporarily, as the order was soon stayed and the rule is allowed to continue to be implemented for the time being, although not in the states where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked it), the health insurance rules for immigrants have also been blocked by the courts. In November 2019, the day before the proclamation regarding health coverage for immigrants was to take effect, a 28-day restraining order was issued by District Judge Michael H. Simon. Judge Simon subsequently issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the rule from taking effect.

An appeals court panel upheld the ruling in May 2020, so the Trump administration’s immigrant health insurance requirements are still blocked.Even before they were blocked by the courts, the new public charge rule and the new immigrant health insurance requirement did not change anything about eligibility for premium subsidies in the exchange — subsidies continued to be available to legally-present residents who meet the guidelines for subsidy eligibility. But these new rules were designed to make it harder for people to enter the US in the first place, and had the effect of deterring otherwise eligible people from applying for financial assistance with their health coverage, including assistance via Medicaid or CHIP for their US-born children.Here are more details about both rules:Public charge ruleThe public charge rule was initially delayed for a few months amid legal challenges, but it was implemented in February 2020. It was vacated by a federal judge in November 2020, but that order was soon stayed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing the Trump administration’s version of the public charge rule to continue to be implemented while litigation on the case continues. Soon thereafter, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule from being used by immigration officials in 18 states and DC, but it can still be used in the majority of the states.And advocates note that the rule, which was proposed in 2018, began to lead to coverage losses immediately, even though it didn’t take effect until 2020. The rule has to numerous immigrants forgoing the benefits for which they and their children are eligible, out of fear of being labeled a public charge.

Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families noted this fall that the public charge rule change was one of the factors linked to the sharp increase in the uninsured rate among children in the U.S.The longstanding public charge rule states that if the government determines that an immigrant is “likely to become a public charge,” that can be a factor in denying the person legal permanent resident (LPR) status and/or entry into the U.S.For two decades, the rules have excluded Medicaid (except when used to fund long-term care in an institution) from the services that are considered when determining if a person is likely to become a public charge. The new rule changed that. Medicaid, along with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and several low-income housing programs were added to the list of services that would push a person into the “public charge” category. The National Immigration Law Center notes that the public charge assessment does not apply to lawful permanent residents who are renewing their green cards.Critically, CHIP and ACA premium subsidies are not included among the new additions to the public charge determination, although the final rule does incorporate a “heavily weighted positive factor” that essentially gives the person credit for having private health insurance without using the ACA’s premium subsidies. (In other words, a person’s likelihood of being labeled a public charge will decrease if they have health insurance without premium subsidies, but enrolling in a subsidized plan through the exchange will not count as a negative factor in determining whether the person is likely to become a public charge.)Very few new immigrants are eligible for Medicaid, due to the five-year waiting period that applies in most cases.

But immigrants who have been in the U.S. For more than five years can enroll in Medicaid, and more recent immigrants can enroll their U.S.-born children in Medicaid. These are perfectly legal uses of the Medicaid system. But even before the new rule was scheduled to take effect, it was making immigrants fearful about applying for subsidies, CHIP, or health coverage in general — for themselves as well as for their family members who are U.S. Citizens and thus entitled to the same benefits as any other citizen.Health insurance proclamation for new immigrantsThe restraining order for the health insurance proclamation, the subsequent preliminary injunction, and the appeals court panel’s ruling were in response to a lawsuit filed in October 2019, in which plaintiffs argued that the new health insurance rules for immigrants are arbitrary and simply wouldn’t work, given the actual health insurance options available for people who haven’t yet arrived in the US.

The court system has, for the time being, blocked the proclamation from taking effect nationwide.This Q&A with Immigration attorney William Stock provides some very useful insight into the implications of the health insurance proclamation for new immigrants, if it had been allowed to take effect. The new rules wouldn’t have applied to immigrant visas issued prior to November 3, 2019 (the date the rules were slated to take effect), but people applying to enter the US on an immigrant visa after that date would have had to prove that they have or will imminently obtain health insurance, or that they have the financial means to pay for “reasonably foreseeable medical costs” — which is certainly a very grey area and very much open to interpretation (these rules could take effect at a later date, if and when the proclamation is allowed to take effect).The rule would not have allowed new immigrants to plan to enroll in a subsidized health insurance plan in the exchange. Premium subsidies would have continued to be available to legally present immigrants, but new immigrants entering the US on an immigrant visa would have had to show that their plan for obtaining health insurance did not involve premium subsidies in the exchange. And applicants cannot enroll in an ACA-compliant plan unless they’re already living in the US, so people trying to move to the US would not have been able to enroll until after they arrive.There are also concerns about the logistics of getting a plan in place if a person wanted to sign up for a full-price ACA-compliant plan. Gaining lawfully-present immigration status is a qualifying event that allows a person to enroll in a plan through the exchange (but not outside the exchange), but the special enrollment period is not available in advance.

It starts when the person gains their immigration status. At that point, the person has 60 days to enroll. If they sign up by the 15th of the month, coverage starts the following month. But if they sign up after the 15th of the month, coverage starts the first of the second following month, which might be more than 30 days after the person arrives in the country. In short, the requirements of the proclamation don’t necessarily match up with the logistics of how enrollment works in the ACA-compliant market.Under the terms of the proclamation, short-term health insurance plans would have been considered an acceptable alternative for new immigrants.

But short-term plans often have a requirement that non-US-citizens have resided in the US for a certain amount of time prior to enrolling, which would make them unavailable for people living outside the US who are applying for an immigrant visa. A travel/expat policy (which has a limited duration, just like short-term coverage) would be available in these scenarios, however, and can be readily obtained by healthy people who are going to be living or traveling outside of their country of citizenship.Under a Democratic administration, would health insurance assistance for immigrants expand?. The Medicare for All bills introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and by Representative Pramila Jayapal would expand coverage to virtually everyone in the U.S., including undocumented immigrants. Some leading Democrats prefer a more measured approach, similar to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 healthcare reform proposal, which included a provision similar to California’s subsequently withdrawn 1332 waiver proposal. (It would have allowed undocumented immigrants to buy coverage in the exchanges, although without subsidies.) Joe Biden’s health care plan includes a similar proposal, which would allow undocumented immigrants to buy into a new public option program, albeit without any government subsidies.But over the first seven years of exchange operation, roughly 85 percent of exchange enrollees have been eligible for subsidies, and only 15 percent have paid full price for their coverage.

So although public option plans are expected to be a little less expensive than private plans, it’s unclear how many undocumented immigrants would or could actually enroll in public option without financial assistance.Harold Pollack has noted that our current policy of entirely excluding undocumented immigrants from the exchanges is “morally unacceptable.” As Pollack explains, Clinton’s plan (and now Biden’s plan) to extend coverage to undocumented immigrants by allowing them to buy unsubsidized coverage in the exchange is a good first step, but it must be followed with comprehensive immigration reform to “bring de facto Americans out of the shadows into full citizenship.”Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since 2006. She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.org. Her state health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts..

Short-term health plans in Idaho Short-term health plan availability in IdahoThere are two different types of short-term cialis brand name buy online health insurance plans available in Idaho:Traditional short-term plans that are non-renewable, not guaranteed-issue, and are available with a total duration of up to 12 monthsEnhanced short-term plans that are guaranteed-renewable, guaranteed-issue, and available with a total duration, including renewals, of up to 36 months. Idaho’s rules for these plans are extensive, and go well beyond the Trump administration’s regulations that took effect in 2018.The enhanced short-term plans debuted in 2020, and are offered by Blue Cross of cialis brand name buy online Idaho and SelectHealth. The traditional plans are also available from both of those insurers, as well as several other companies.Until Idaho enacted new rules in 2019, state regulations clarified that if plans were renewable, they were subject to Idaho’s rules that apply to Idaho’s individual insurance market, including a requirement that the plans be guaranteed renewable. So short-term plans were defined in Idaho as being cialis brand name buy online non-renewable (see Idaho insurance statutes, Title 41, Chapter 52).[There is some uncertainty about the implementation of the state’s rules for non-renewable short-term plans.

Some guidance indicates that they can durations of up to a year, while other regulations indicate that they are limited to no more than six months in duration. But at least some of the traditional short-term plans available in Idaho do have terms in excess of six months.]Idaho’s short-term health insurance regulationsIn 2018, Idaho tried to get CMS approval for “state-based” plans that cialis brand name buy online would have skirted various ACA requirements and regulations. CMS rejected that proposal. But they indicated that the state could cialis brand name buy online modify the proposal and use short-term health insurance rules in order to accomplish much of its goals without the need for additional federal approval.So in April 2019, Idaho enacted legislation (H.275) that allows for the creation of “enhanced” short-term plans.

While these plans are still required to have initial terms that are under 12 months, they’re renewable “at the option of the insured.” That’s an cialis brand name buy online important distinction. The federal short-term plans regulations that were finalized in 2018 allow short-term plans to be renewable, but at the discretion of the insurer. Idaho’s new legislation requires insurers that offer “enhanced” short-term plans cialis brand name buy online to let members renew their coverage.In keeping with federal regulations, total plan duration, including renewals, cannot exceed 36 months. But H.275 also indicates that the insurer will have to allow a member to reapply for another policy after one policy ends and its renewal opportunities have been exhausted [see 41-5207(h)].

And the regulations the state has issued go even further, noting that “enhanced short-term plans must be reissued at the option cialis brand name buy online of the enrollee, upon exhausting any renewability due to duration or age,” and that “no new application or questions concerning the health or medical condition of the covered individuals may be requested to effectuate the reissuance.” (emphasis added)H.275 called for the addition of Section 5214 to Idaho Code Title 41, Chapter 52, which had been added by mid-2019. The legislation stated that the new rules would be effective immediately, and an April 2019 bulletin published by the Idaho Department of Insurance noted that short-term plans with “limited renewability” were likely to be available in Idaho by 2020.Blue Cross of Idaho began selling enhanced short-term plans as of December 1, 2019, and SelectHealth also began offering the plans as of early 2020. Both insurers are continuing to sell enhanced short-term cialis brand name buy online plans, as well as traditional short-term plans. The Idaho Department of Insurance published a news release in 2016, cautioning residents about the potential drawbacks and limitations of short-term health insurance, cialis brand name buy online while noting that the plans can be appropriate for people who missed open enrollment and don’t have access to a special enrollment period for ACA-compliant coverage.

This was well before the state created the new “enhanced” short-term plan pathway, and although the drawbacks noted in the news release are still applicable to regular short-term plans, they mostly do not apply to the enhanced short-term plans.Idaho’s requirements for enhanced short-term plansRulemaking activity for Idaho’s new enhanced short-term plans is available here. The state published temporary rules that took effect in July 2019, and a proposed final rule was cialis brand name buy online published in October 2019. The Idaho Department of Insurance also published an at-a-glance guide to how enhanced short-term plans compare with traditional short-term plans, and the full set of rules that apply to traditional and enhanced short-term plans are available in Idaho Administrative Code Section 18.04.15.Insurers can choose to offer year-round availability or to limit enrollment to the same enrollment window that applies to ACA-compliant plans. If the plan is available year-round, cialis brand name buy online the insurer can impose a waiting period for pre-existing conditions.

If the plan is only available during open enrollment, no pre-existing condition waiting period can be applied (SelectHealth and Blue Cross of Idaho both offer plans that have waiting periods for pre-existing conditions).Insurers that offer enhanced short-term plans must also offer qualified health plans through Your Health Idaho (the state-run exchange) in the same areas.Enhanced short-term plans must be offered on a guaranteed-issue basis (but insurers can base premiums on medical history, and can impose a waiting period for pre-existing conditions).Coverage under an enhanced short-term plan is considered qualifying coverage that allows a person’s pre-existing condition waiting period to be waived. So if a person renews their short-term plan after the first year, there will no longer be cialis brand name buy online any waiting periods for pre-existing conditions during the second year.Enhanced short-term plans must be guaranteed renewable (for up to 36 months of total duration). The insurer cannot require a new application or new medical history questions during the renewal process.Although the plans are capped at 36 months (in accordance with federal rules for short-term plans), insurers are required to allow enrollees to re-enroll in a new plan after the first one expires, and no new application or medical history questions can be used.When a person has had coverage under an enhanced short-term plan for at least 11 months and the policy is terminating, they are eligible to enroll in any of the insurer’s ACA-compliant plans at that point (regardless of whether open enrollment is underway).Enhanced short-term cialis brand name buy online plans cannot vary rates based on gender, although they can use an applicant’s medical history to set rates.Geographic rating areas must be the same as the rating areas used for ACA-compliant plans.Enhanced short-term plan enrollees must be incorporated into the same risk pool as the insurer’s other individual market enrollees.Enhanced short-term plans must provide benefits in line with the state’s benchmark plan for essential health benefits, and cannot impose annual benefit caps under $1,000,000.Regular non-renewable short-term health insurance in Idaho continues to be available with total durations of up to one year. They are not guaranteed issue, but premiums can only vary based on age, tobacco use, and zip code (this is generally how rating rules work for short-term plans nationwide.

Applicants are either accepted or declined based cialis brand name buy online on overall medical history. If they’re accepted, the premiums are based on only a few variables).In 2017, the Idaho Department of Insurance published an overview of health coverage in the state. As of 2016, there were 3,769 people with short-term health insurance in Idaho, which was cialis brand name buy online a decrease of 13.3 percent since 2015. But Idaho’s new “enhanced” short-term plans, which became available for 2020, are very different from regular short-term plans.

Overall short-term plan enrollment in the states could end cialis brand name buy online up growing significantly as a result. Which insurers offer short-term plans in Idaho?. Several insurers offer short-term health insurance in Idaho, including cialis brand name buy online two that offer enhanced short-term insurance plans. More information about how each of these insurers is treating coverage and cost-sharing related to erectile dysfunction treatment is available here.Idaho has considered making enhanced short-term cialis brand name buy online plans available via the exchangeDraft meeting minutes from a September 2019 and December 2019 board meetings for Your Health Idaho (the state-run health insurance exchange) indicated that the enhanced short-term policies were expected to be offered for sale via the exchange (without any premium subsidies) as soon as the second quarter of 2020.

The meeting minutes noted that the exchange would have to sort out how the medical history questionnaires would be handled for those plans, as their pricing can vary based on medical history (unlike ACA-compliant plans).Allowing enhanced short-term plans to be sold through the exchange would obviously be controversial. The ACA only allows qualified health plans to be sold through a state’s exchange, and these enhanced short-term plans — while certainly better than short-term plans in most cialis brand name buy online states — are not qualified health plans. But the issue does not appear to have been brought up again during the 2020 meetings, and enhanced short-term plans are not for sale via Your Health Idaho as of late 2020.In December 2019, Senators Patty Murray (D, WA) and Ron Wyden (D, OR), and Congressmen Frank Pallone Jr. (D, NJ) and Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to CMS, asking them to step in and prevent Your Health Idaho from offering enhanced short-term plans cialis brand name buy online through the exchange.

They noted that the ACA only allows qualified health plans (QHPs) to be sold in the exchange. And while Idaho’s enhanced short-term plans offer much more robust coverage than a typical short-term plan, they are not QHPs.[There was one error in cialis brand name buy online the letter, however. It states that Idaho’s plans wouldn’t have to cover essential health benefits, when in fact, they are required to do so in accordance with the state’s benchmark plan.] Who can get short-term health insurance in IdahoShort-term health insurance in Idaho can be purchased by applicants who can meet the underwriting guidelines the insurers use.Traditional short-term health plans typically include cialis brand name buy online blanket exclusions for pre-existing conditions, so they will not be adequate for residents of the Gem State who need certain medical care for ongoing health conditions. Enhanced short-term plans are guaranteed-issue, but insurers can base premiums on a person’s medical history and can impose a waiting period before pre-existing conditions are covered.If you need health insurance in Idaho, your first step should be to see if you’re eligible to enroll in an ACA-compliant major medical plan.

These plans are available during the annual cialis brand name buy online open enrollment period from November 1 to December 15, and during special enrollment periods triggered by a variety of qualifying life events. ACA-compliant plans are available through Your Health Idaho (the Obamacare exchange/marketplace in the state) or directly from the health insurance companies, although premium subsidies are only available through the exchange (if you’re eligible for a premium subsidy, you may find that your monthly premiums are far more affordable than you had expected).ACA-compliant policies are purchased on a month-to-month basis, so you can enroll in one even if you keep it for only a few months until other coverage kicks in. So for example, if you’ll soon be eligible for Medicare or a new employer’s plan, you can still enroll in cialis brand name buy online an ACA-compliant plan during open enrollment or a special enrollment period, and then cancel it when your new coverage takes effect.But if you’re unable to enroll in an ACA-compliant policy, a short-term health insurance plan is certainly better than remaining uninsured. And Idaho’s enhanced short-term plans include far more consumer protections than the short-term plans that are available in most other states.When should I consider short-term health insurance in Idaho?.

There are certain situations where you may need to consider short-term coverage, such as:If you missed open enrollment for ACA-compliant coverage and don’t have a qualifying cialis brand name buy online event for a special enrollment period.You’ll be enrolling in Medicare soon and don’t have access to an ACA-compliant individual or employer-sponsored plan in the meantime.You’ve enrolled in an ACA-compliant plan but have to wait up to several weeks before it takes effect.You’re newly employed but the business has a waiting period of up to three months before you can enroll in your employer’s healthcare plan.If you’re not eligible for Medicaid or a premium subsidy for an ACA-compliant plan, and need a more affordable option than a full-price ACA-compliant plan. People who are ineligible for premium subsidies include:Idahoans cialis brand name buy online who earn incomes 400% above the federal poverty level. (For 2021 coverage, that amounts to $51,040 for a single person. If your ACA-specific modified adjusted gross income is just a little above the subsidy-eligible threshold, there are steps you can take to reduce it).People who are caught by the ACA’s family glitch.People who are ineligible to enroll in a plan through the exchange because they are not lawfully present in the US.Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker cialis brand name buy online who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since 2006.

She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.org. Her state health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts.Key takeaways Did the ACA improve access to cialis brand name buy online health coverage for immigrants?. For more than a decade, roughly one million people per year have been granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. In addition, there are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S, although that number has fallen from a high cialis brand name buy online of more than 12 million in 2005.New immigrants can obtain health insurance from a variety of sources, including employer-sponsored plans, the individual market, and health plans that are marketed specifically for immigrants.The Affordable Care Act has made numerous changes to our health insurance system over the last several years.

But recent immigrants are often confused in terms of what health insurance options are available to them. And persistent myths about the ACA have made it hard to discern what’s true and what’s not in terms of how the ACA applies to immigrants.So let’s take a look at the health insurance options for cialis brand name buy online immigrants, and how they’ve changed – or haven’t changed – under the ACA.Use our calculator to estimate how much you could save on your ACA-compliant health insurance premiums.Can any immigrant select from available health plans during open enrollment?. Open enrollment for individual-market health insurance coverage runs from November 1 to December 15 in most states.During this cialis brand name buy online window, any non-incarcerated, lawfully present U.S. Resident can enroll in a health plan through the exchange in their state – or outside the exchange, if that’s their preference, although financial assistance is not available outside the exchange.Are immigrants eligible for health insurance premium subsidies?.

You do cialis brand name buy online not have to be a U.S. Citizen to benefit from the ACA. If you’re in the U.S cialis brand name buy online. Legally – regardless of how long you’ve been here – you’re eligible for subsidies in the exchange if your income is in the subsidy-eligible range and you don’t have access to an affordable, minimum value plan from an employer.

Premium subsidies are available to exchange enrollees if their income is between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), but subsidies also extend below the poverty level for recent immigrants, as described below.(A new rule issued by the Trump cialis brand name buy online administration in 2019 expanded on the long-standing “public charge” rule. This rule cialis brand name buy online took effect in early 2020. It was vacated by a federal judge as of November 2020, but that order was stayed by an appeals court just two days later, meaning that the Trump administration’s public charge rule can still be implemented while litigation continues on this case. Under the public charge rule, receiving premium subsidies in the exchange does not cialis brand name buy online make a person a public charge under the new rule, but not receiving premium subsidies is considered a “heavily weighted positive factor” in the overall determination of whether a person is likely to be a public charge.

This is discussed in more detail below.)Lawfully present immigrant status applies to a wide range of people, including those with “non-immigrant” status such as work visas and student visas. So even if cialis brand name buy online you’re only in the U.S. Temporarily — for a year of studying abroad, for example — you can purchase coverage in the health insurance exchange for the state you’re living in while in the US. And depending on your income, you might be eligible cialis brand name buy online for a premium subsidy to offset some of the cost of the coverage.

Special enrollment cialis brand name buy online period for new citizensWhen you become a new U.S. Citizen or gain lawfully present status, you’re entitled to a special enrollment period in your state’s exchange. You’ll have 60 days from the date you became a citizen or a lawfully present resident to enroll in a plan through the exchange, with subsidies if you’re eligible for them.There are a variety of other special enrollment periods that apply to people experiencing various cialis brand name buy online qualifying life events. These special enrollment periods are available to immigrants and non-immigrants alike.Are recent immigrants eligible for ACA subsidies?.

The ACA cialis brand name buy online called for expansion of Medicaid to all adults with income up to 138 percent of the poverty level, and no exchange subsidies for enrollees with income below the poverty level, since they’re supposed to have Medicaid instead. But Medicaid isn’t available in most states to recent immigrants until they’ve been lawfully present in the U.S. For five cialis brand name buy online years. To get around this problem, Congress included a provision in the ACA to allow recent immigrants to get subsidies in the exchange regardless of how low their income is.Low-income, lawfully present immigrants – who would be eligible for Medicaid based on income, but are barred from Medicaid because of their immigration status – are eligible to enroll in plans through the exchange with full subsidies during the five years when Medicaid is not available.

Their premiums for the second-lowest-cost Silver plan are capped at 2.07 percent cialis brand name buy online of income in 2021 (this number changes slightly each year).In early 2015, Andrew Sprung explained that this provision of the ACA wasn’t well understood during the first open enrollment period, even by call center staff. So there may well have been low-income immigrants who cialis brand name buy online didn’t end up enrolling due to miscommunication. But this issue is now likely to be much better understood by exchange staff, brokers, and enrollment assisters. If you’re in this situation and are told that you can’t get subsidies, don’t give up — ask to speak with a supervisor who can help you (for reference, this issue is detailed in ACA Section 1401(c)(1)(B), and it appears on page 113 of the text of the ACA).Lawmakers included subsidies for low-income immigrants who weren’t eligible cialis brand name buy online for Medicaid specifically to avoid a coverage gap.

Ironically, there are currently about 2.3 million people in 13 states who are in a coverage gap that exists because those states have refused to expand Medicaid (two of those states — Missouri and Oklahoma — will expand Medicaid as of mid-2021, and Georgia will partially expand Medicaid, eliminating the coverage gap. At that point, there will only be 10 states with coverage cialis brand name buy online gaps). Congress went out of their way to ensure that there would be no coverage gap for recent immigrants, but they couldn’t anticipate that the Supreme Court would make Medicaid optional for the states and that numerous states would block expansion, leading to a coverage gap for millions of U.S. Citizens.The ACA also limits premiums for older enrollees to three times the premiums charged for younger enrollees cialis brand name buy online.

So there are essentially caps on the premiums cialis brand name buy online that apply to elderly recent immigrants who are using the individual market in place of Medicare, even if their income is too high to qualify for subsidies.Are undocumented immigrants eligible for ACA coverage?. Although the ACA provides benefits to U.S. Citizens and lawfully present immigrants alike, it does not directly provide any benefits for undocumented immigrants.The ACA specifically prevents non-lawfully present immigrants cialis brand name buy online from enrolling in coverage through the exchanges [section 1312(f)(3)]. And they are also not eligible for Medicaid under federal guidelines.

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Family members who aren’t applying for coverage are not asked for details about their immigration status. And HealthCare.gov cialis brand name buy online clarifies that immigration details you provide to the exchange during your enrollment and verification process are not shared with any immigration authorities.How many undocumented immigrants are uninsured?. In terms of the insurance status of undocumented immigrants, the numbers tend to be rough estimates, since exact data regarding undocumented immigrants can be difficult to pin down. But according to Pew Research data, cialis brand name buy online there were 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

As of 2014.According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, undocumented immigrants are significantly more likely to be uninsured than U.S. Citizens. 45 percent of undocumented immigrants are uninsured, versus about 8 percent of citizens.So more than half of the undocumented immigrant population has some form of health insurance coverage. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt noted via Twitter that “some are buying non-group, but I’d agree that it’s primarily employer coverage.” And in 2014, Los Angeles Times writer Lisa Zamosky explained the various options that undocumented immigrants in California were using to obtain coverage, including student health plans, employer-sponsored coverage, and individual (i.e., non-group) plans purchased off-exchange (on-exchange, enrollees are required to provide proof of legal immigration status).Uninsured undocumented immigrants do have access to some healthcare services, regardless of their ability to pay.

Federal law (EMTALA) requires Medicare-participating hospitals to provide screening and stabilization services for anyone who enters their emergency rooms, without regard for insurance or residency status.Since emergency rooms are the most expensive setting for healthcare, local officials in many areas have opted for less expensive alternatives. Of the 25 U.S counties with the largest number of undocumented immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reports that 20 have programs in place to fund primary and surgical care for low-income uninsured county residents, typically regardless of their immigration status.Do ACA exchanges check the status of immigrants who want to buy coverage?. As part of the enrollment process, the exchanges are required to verify lawfully present status. In 2014, enrollments were terminated for approximately 109,000 people who had initially enrolled through HealthCare.gov, but who were unable to provide the necessary proof of legal residency (enrollees generally have 95 days to provide documentation to resolve data matching issues for immigration status).By the end of June 2015, coverage in the federally facilitated exchange had been terminated for roughly 306,000 people who had enrolled in coverage for 2015 but had not provided adequate documentation to prove their lawfully-present status.

In the first three months of 2016, coverage in the federally facilitated exchange was terminated for roughly 17,000 people who had unresolved immigration data matching issues, and coverage was terminated for the same reason for another 113,000 enrollees during the second quarter of 2016.There’s concern among consumer advocates that some lawfully present residents have encountered barriers to enrollment – or canceled coverage – due to data-matching issues. If you’re lawfully present in the U.S (which includes a wide range of immigration statuses), you can legally use the exchange, and qualify for subsidies if you’re otherwise eligible. Be prepared, however, for the possibility that you might have to prove your lawfully present status.There are enrollment assisters in your community who can help you with this process if necessary. But if you’re not lawfully present, you cannot enroll through the exchange, even if you’re willing to pay full price for your coverage.

You can, however, apply for an ACA-compliant plan outside the exchange, as there’s no federal restriction on that.Should immigrants consider short-term health insurance?. Immigrants who are unable to afford ACA-compliant coverage might find that a short-term health insurance plan will fit their needs, and it’s far better than being uninsured. Short-term plans are not sold through the health insurance exchanges, so the exchange requirement that enrollees provide proof of legal residency does not apply with short-term plans.Short-term plans provide coverage that’s less comprehensive than ACA-compliant plans, and for the most part, they do not provide any coverage for pre-existing conditions. But for healthy applicants who can qualify for coverage, a short-term plan is far better than no coverage at all.

And the premiums for short-term plans are far lower than the unsubsidized premiums for ACA-compliant plans.Recent immigrants who are eligible for premium subsidies in the exchange will likely be best served by enrolling in a plan through the exchange — the coverage will be comprehensive, with no limits on annual or lifetime benefits and no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. But healthy applicants who aren’t eligible for subsidies (including those affected by the family glitch, and those with income just a little above 400 percent of the poverty level), as well as those who might find it difficult to prove their immigration status to the exchange, may find that a short-term policy is their best option.With any insurance plan, it’s important to read the fine print and understand the ins and outs of the coverage. But that’s particularly important with short-term plans, as they’re not regulated by federal law (other than the rules that limit their terms to no more than 364 days, and total duration to no more than 36 months including renewals). Some states have extensive rules for short-term plans, so availability varies considerably from one state to another (you can click on a state on this map to see how the state regulates short-term plans).Travel insurance plans are another option, particularly for people who will be in the U.S.

Temporarily and who don’t qualify for premium subsidies in the exchange. Just like short-term plans, travel insurance policies are not compliant with the ACA, so they generally won’t cover pre-existing conditions, tend to have gaps in their coverage (since they don’t have to cover all of the essential health benefits) and will come with limits on how much they’ll pay for an enrollee’s medical care. But if the other alternative is to go uninsured, a travel insurance plan is far better than no coverage at all.How are states making efforts to insure undocumented immigrants?. California wanted to open up its state-run exchange to undocumented immigrants who can pay full price for their coverage.

The state already changed the rules to allow for the provision of Medicaid (Medi-Cal) to undocumented immigrant children, starting in 2016 (and expanded this to young adults as of 2020). As a result, about 170,000 children in California gained access to coverage.And in June 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB10 into law, setting the stage for the state to eventually allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in coverage (without subsidies) through Covered California, the state-run exchange.In September 2016, after obtaining public comment on the proposal, Covered California submitted their 1332 Innovation Waiver to CMS, requesting the ability to allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in full-price coverage through Covered California. But in January 2017, just two days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the state withdrew their waiver proposal, citing concerns that the Trump Administration might use information from Covered California to deport undocumented immigrants.New York lawmakers considered legislation in 2019 that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to purchase full-price coverage in NY’s state-based exchange, but it did not progress in the legislature. As noted in the text of the legislation, New York would have needed to obtain federal permission to implement this law if the state had enacted it.Trump administration’s public charge rule and immigrant health insurance rule have both been blocked by the courts, but the public charge rule can still be implemented in many statesIn August 2019, the Trump administration finalized rule changes for the government’s existing “public charge” policy, after proposing changes nearly a year earlier.

And in October 2019, President Trump issued a proclamation to suspend new immigrant visas for people who are unable to prove that they’ll be able to purchase (non-taxpayer funded) health insurance within 30 days of entering the US “unless the alien possesses the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.” But both of these rules have since been blocked by federal judges.The public charge rule was slated to take effect October 15, 2019, but federal judges blocked it on October 11, temporarily delaying implementation. In January 2020, the Supreme Court ruled (in a 5-4 vote) that the public charge rule could take effect while an appeal was pending, and it took effect in February 2020. The Supreme Court declined to temporarily pause the rule amid the erectile dysfunction treatment cialis. But U.S.

District Judge Gary Feinerman, in Chicago, vacated the rule in its entirety, nationwide, as of November 2020. Just two days later, however, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Judge Feinerman’s order, allowing the Trump administration’s version of the public charge rule to continue to be implemented while litigation on this case continues. On December 2, however, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule from being applied in 18 states and DC. So as of December 2020, the public charge rule can be used by immigration officials in some states but not in others.A 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the rule indicated that millions of people might disenroll from Medicaid and CHIP (even though CHIP enrollment is not a negatively weighted factor under the new rule) over concerns about the public charge rule, and that “coverage losses also will likely decrease revenues and increase uncompensated care for providers and have spillover effects within communities.”In addition to the public charge rule being vacated (albeit very temporarily, as the order was soon stayed and the rule is allowed to continue to be implemented for the time being, although not in the states where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked it), the health insurance rules for immigrants have also been blocked by the courts.

In November 2019, the day before the proclamation regarding health coverage for immigrants was to take effect, a 28-day restraining order was issued by District Judge Michael H. Simon. Judge Simon subsequently issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the rule from taking effect. An appeals court panel upheld the ruling in May 2020, so the Trump administration’s immigrant health insurance requirements are still blocked.Even before they were blocked by the courts, the new public charge rule and the new immigrant health insurance requirement did not change anything about eligibility for premium subsidies in the exchange — subsidies continued to be available to legally-present residents who meet the guidelines for subsidy eligibility.

But these new rules were designed to make it harder for people to enter the US in the first place, and had the effect of deterring otherwise eligible people from applying for financial assistance with their health coverage, including assistance via Medicaid or CHIP for their US-born children.Here are more details about both rules:Public charge ruleThe public charge rule was initially delayed for a few months amid legal challenges, but it was implemented in February 2020. It was vacated by a federal judge in November 2020, but that order was soon stayed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing the Trump administration’s version of the public charge rule to continue to be implemented while litigation on the case continues. Soon thereafter, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule from being used by immigration officials in 18 states and DC, but it can still be used in the majority of the states.And advocates note that the rule, which was proposed in 2018, began to lead to coverage losses immediately, even though it didn’t take effect until 2020. The rule has to numerous immigrants forgoing the benefits for which they and their children are eligible, out of fear of being labeled a public charge.

Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families noted this fall that the public charge rule change was one of the factors linked to the sharp increase in the uninsured rate among children in the U.S.The longstanding public charge rule states that if the government determines that an immigrant is “likely to become a public charge,” that can be a factor in denying the person legal permanent resident (LPR) status and/or entry into the U.S.For two decades, the rules have excluded Medicaid (except when used to fund long-term care in an institution) from the services that are considered when determining if a person is likely to become a public charge. The new rule changed that. Medicaid, along with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and several low-income housing programs were added to the list of services that would push a person into the “public charge” category. The National Immigration Law Center notes that the public charge assessment does not apply to lawful permanent residents who are renewing their green cards.Critically, CHIP and ACA premium subsidies are not included among the new additions to the public charge determination, although the final rule does incorporate a “heavily weighted positive factor” that essentially gives the person credit for having private health insurance without using the ACA’s premium subsidies.

(In other words, a person’s likelihood of being labeled a public charge will decrease if they have health insurance without premium subsidies, but enrolling in a subsidized plan through the exchange will not count as a negative factor in determining whether the person is likely to become a public charge.)Very few new immigrants are eligible for Medicaid, due to the five-year waiting period that applies in most cases. But immigrants who have been in the U.S. For more than five years can enroll in Medicaid, and more recent immigrants can enroll their U.S.-born children in Medicaid. These are perfectly legal uses of the Medicaid system.

But even before the new rule was scheduled to take effect, it was making immigrants fearful about applying for subsidies, CHIP, or health coverage in general — for themselves as well as for their family members who are U.S. Citizens and thus entitled to the same benefits as any other citizen.Health insurance proclamation for new immigrantsThe restraining order for the health insurance proclamation, the subsequent preliminary injunction, and the appeals court panel’s ruling were in response to a lawsuit filed in October 2019, in which plaintiffs argued that the new health insurance rules for immigrants are arbitrary and simply wouldn’t work, given the actual health insurance options available for people who haven’t yet arrived in the US. The court system has, for the time being, blocked the proclamation from taking effect nationwide.This Q&A with Immigration attorney William Stock provides some very useful insight into the implications of the health insurance proclamation for new immigrants, if it had been allowed to take effect. The new rules wouldn’t have applied to immigrant visas issued prior to November 3, 2019 (the date the rules were slated to take effect), but people applying to enter the US on an immigrant visa after that date would have had to prove that they have or will imminently obtain health insurance, or that they have the financial means to pay for “reasonably foreseeable medical costs” — which is certainly a very grey area and very much open to interpretation (these rules could take effect at a later date, if and when the proclamation is allowed to take effect).The rule would not have allowed new immigrants to plan to enroll in a subsidized health insurance plan in the exchange.

Premium subsidies would have continued to be available to legally present immigrants, but new immigrants entering the US on an immigrant visa would have had to show that their plan for obtaining health insurance did not involve premium subsidies in the exchange. And applicants cannot enroll in an ACA-compliant plan unless they’re already living in the US, so people trying to move to the US would not have been able to enroll until after they arrive.There are also concerns about the logistics of getting a plan in place if a person wanted to sign up for a full-price ACA-compliant plan. Gaining lawfully-present immigration status is a qualifying event that allows a person to enroll in a plan through the exchange (but not outside the exchange), but the special enrollment period is not available in advance. It starts when the person gains their immigration status.

At that point, the person has 60 days to enroll. If they sign up by the 15th of the month, coverage starts the following month. But if they sign up after the 15th of the month, coverage starts the first of the second following month, which might be more than 30 days after the person arrives in the country. In short, the requirements of the proclamation don’t necessarily match up with the logistics of how enrollment works in the ACA-compliant market.Under the terms of the proclamation, short-term health insurance plans would have been considered an acceptable alternative for new immigrants.

But short-term plans often have a requirement that non-US-citizens have resided in the US for a certain amount of time prior to enrolling, which would make them unavailable for people living outside the US who are applying for an immigrant visa. A travel/expat policy (which has a limited duration, just like short-term coverage) would be available in these scenarios, however, and can be readily obtained by healthy people who are going to be living or traveling outside of their country of citizenship.Under a Democratic administration, would health insurance assistance for immigrants expand?. The Medicare for All bills introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and by Representative Pramila Jayapal would expand coverage to virtually everyone in the U.S., including undocumented immigrants. Some leading Democrats prefer a more measured approach, similar to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 healthcare reform proposal, which included a provision similar to California’s subsequently withdrawn 1332 waiver proposal.

(It would have allowed undocumented immigrants to buy coverage in the exchanges, although without subsidies.) Joe Biden’s health care plan includes a similar proposal, which would allow undocumented immigrants to buy into a new public option program, albeit without any government subsidies.But over the first seven years of exchange operation, roughly 85 percent of exchange enrollees have been eligible for subsidies, and only 15 percent have paid full price for their coverage. So although public option plans are expected to be a little less expensive than private plans, it’s unclear how many undocumented immigrants would or could actually enroll in public option without financial assistance.Harold Pollack has noted that our current policy of entirely excluding undocumented immigrants from the exchanges is “morally unacceptable.” As Pollack explains, Clinton’s plan (and now Biden’s plan) to extend coverage to undocumented immigrants by allowing them to buy unsubsidized coverage in the exchange is a good first step, but it must be followed with comprehensive immigration reform to “bring de facto Americans out of the shadows into full citizenship.”Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since 2006. She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.org. Her state health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts..

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