Thank Goodness for Affordable Care Act and Medicaid

May 14, 2020

Behind the statistics and challenges are real people. Proper medical care improves the quality of life and all that goes along with good care — especially during this time of the coronavirus.

Medicaid provides health benefits to 72 million Americans who cannot afford health care. The NJ Family Care Program includes Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and provides health care to 1.7 million lower-income adults and children — among them senior citizens in nursing homes and others who receive both Medicare and Medicaid benefits (and are known as dual-eligible).

Opinion by Rich Keevey, NJSpotlight.com, May 14, 2020

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