Louisiana Obamacare Insurer Unmoved By Legal Challenge On Its Aids Policy

Lucy Cordts of the New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force, which has been scrambling to help affected Louisiana Blue customers, said several hundred people with HIV-AIDS had used Ryan White payments for their monthly premiums and could be kicked out of the Obamacare plan they purchased. Of the hundreds of people with HIV-AIDS who are trying to use Ryan White Act funds to pay Obamacare insurance premiums, many are too poor to qualify for ACA subsidies, which go to people whose income is 100 percent to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Those with lower incomes, including many people with HIV-AIDS, were supposed to be covered by Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor, but Louisiana did not expand the program as the ACA intended so as to make them eligible. Louisiana Blue has cited the need to prevent “potential fraud, waste and abuse” as its reason for refusing third-party payments, including those from the government. Healthcare advocates are concerned, however, that the policy is instead an effort to minimize the number of people with HIV-AIDS the company insures. You will find the original content at this website http://news.yahoo.com/lousiana-obamacare-insurer-unmoved-legal-challenge-aids-policy-224805681–sector.html
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