Biden announces plan to expand health coverage to DACA recipients

Biden says he's expanding some migrants' health care access

President Joe Biden says his administration is expanding eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

DACA recipients to gain health coverage under new plan from Biden administration

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will direct his administration to allow undocumented people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act.

Biden administration to widen Medicaid and ACA health coverage to DACA immigrants

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is proposing rules that would allow immigrants covered by DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — to qualify for health insurance through Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces, the White House announced…

Biden says he's expanding some migrants' health care access

The move is likely to generate significant pushback from conservative leaders of states that have been have been reluctant to expand Medicaid.

Biden Seeks To Give DACA Recipients Access to Medicaid

WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The Biden administration is seeking to allow immigrants illegally brought to the United States as children greater access to health insurance through federal programs, the White House said on Thursday. The proposal would allow participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to access to health insurance under Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, it said. "Health care should be a righ…

Biden to expand access to health care for undocumented immigrants brought to U.S. as children

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children may soon be eligible to receive federally funded health care.