Early this week, I thought that Medicaid and the ACA Exchanges will both be doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting on maintaining and expanding health insurance and health finance coverage during the pandemic. Unemployment is going to be massive and COBRA will be too expensive for many people.
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims
Initial claims were 3,283,000 for the week ending 3/21 (+3,001,000).
Insured unemployment was 1,803,000 for the week ending 3/14 (+101,000).https://t.co/ys7Eg5LKAW
— US Labor Department (@USDOL) March 26, 2020