For clients, “it’s their last chance probably to enroll in health insurance for 2021,” Hattemer said. Barradez said a friend told her about the health law and she intends to follow through. With no health insurance as the pandemic stretches into its second year, Barradez is uneasy. Chris Sloan of the consulting firm Avalere Health says it’s likely that many who became unemployed in the pandemic had no job-based health insurance to begin with. That means they represent the demographic for which the health law was originally designed.

Source: Huffington Post February 15, 2021 13:07 UTC