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A $6.3 billion social welfare check? What the???
Obamacare Pushing Puerto Rico Further Into Social Welfare State, Doctors Warn
This just keeps getting worse by the day.
Obamacare Pushing Puerto Rico Further Into Social Welfare State, Doctors Warn
Puerto Ricans, who are born U.S. citizens, do not enroll on the healthcare.gov because their government decided not to offer health-insurance exchanges, which offers private plans.
Instead, the Affordable Care Act, commonly dubbed Obamacare, has mostly arrived on the island in the form of a $6.3 billion social welfare check allocated to the government to continue to pay for its Medicaid and for its separate, free state-run insurance program called "Mi Salud," between 2014 and 2019.
This just keeps getting worse by the day.