{"id":10631,"date":"2023-05-07T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10631"},"modified":"2023-05-07T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:02:18","slug":"bidens-long-awaited-plan-to-give-health-care-to-dreamers-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10631","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s long-awaited plan to give health care to Dreamers, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Biden administration is expanding health coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), delivering a long-sought victory for immigrant advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rule means the 600,000 immigrants with active DACA status will be able to apply for coverage through their state Medicaid agencies and through the federal health insurance marketplace, where they may qualify for financial assistance based on income. But that victory might be short-lived if the DACA program itself is overturned in court, where it is currently under threat. If DACA is overturned, that could leave hundreds of thousands of DACA beneficiaries, or so-called \u201cDREAMers,\u201d at sudden risk of deportation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/4\/14\/23683537\/daca-health-insurance-biden-medicaid-dreamer\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/4\/14\/23683537\/daca-health-insurance-biden-medicaid-dreamer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Biden administration is expanding health coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), delivering a long-sought victory for immigrant advocates.<br \/>\nThe new rule means the 600,000 immigrants with active DACA status will be able to apply for coverage through their state Medicaid agencies and through the federal health insurance marketplace, where they may qualify for financial assistance based on income. But that victory might be short-lived if the DACA program itself is overturned in court, where it is currently under threat. If DACA is overturned, that could leave hundreds of thousands of DACA beneficiaries, or so-called \u201cDREAMers,\u201d at sudden risk of deportation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[73,493,25,780],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-healthcare","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10632,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}