According to the National Council on Aging, LTC expenses drive about 7 out of 10 senior families
into federal poverty levels within four months of beginning institutionalized care.
According to the National Council on Aging, LTC expenses drive about 7 out of 10 senior families
into federal poverty levels within four months of beginning institutionalized care.
Not exact matches
States were given the option of expanding their Medicaid programs to enroll more people
into the health care exchanges, to those earning up to 138 % percentof the
federal poverty level.
The proposed North Carolina's school voucher bill inserted
into the House budget proposal also originally set the household income limit as high as 300 percent of the
federal poverty level.
Premium tax credits are only available to people who earn between 100 % and 400 % of the
federal poverty level, so if you don't fall
into that bracket, you won't be eligible for de facto free healthcare.
Consumers in these states with incomes that are too high to qualify for Medicaid but less than the
federal poverty level fall
into a «Medicaid gap» where they are ineligible for both Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies.5
The 2014
Federal Budget measures aimed at the wider community will impact the most vulnerable poor people in Australia
into deeper
levels of
poverty, particularly Indigenous Australians.
FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the
federal poverty level.2 Their role has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars
into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.