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September 12, 2013

Where you live matters with health care today

  • If you're poor and your state rejected the law's Medicaid expansion, odds are you'll remain uninsured.
    • By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Having health insurance used to hinge on where you worked and what your medical history said. Soon that won't matter, with open-access markets for subsidized coverage coming Oct. 1 under President Barack Obama's overhaul.

    But there's a new wild card, something that didn't seem so critical when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act back in 2010: where you live.


     
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