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Biden administration says 100,000 new migrants are expected to enroll in ‘Obamacare’ next year [Video]

FILE – An insurance agent talks with clients inside the main location of Las Madrinas de los Seguros, Spanish for “The Godmothers of Insurance,” at a shopping center in Miami, on Dec. 5, 2023. Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year under a new directive the Biden administration released Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) (Rebecca Blackwell, Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

WASHINGTON – Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday.

The move took longer than promised to finalize and fell short of Democratic President Joe Biden’s initial proposal to allow those migrants to sign up for Medicaid, the health insurance program that provides nearly free coverage for the nation’s poorest people.

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