NJ FamilyCare expansion could make 24,000 kids who are undocumented immigrants eligible for health insurance. The federal government wouldn't help pay for it.
As if the government isn't putting enough pressure on people to get the COVID vaccine, now the insurance companies are coming up with another reason to sway you. Money.
More than half of adults nationwide who have health insurance coverage said they had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of mid-April, while only 30% with no health insurance said they had.
That cutoff is later than the deadline that residents have seen offered by the federal government in past years, now that the state's running its own shop for benefits.
Proponents of the $300 million tax plan say it's not a new tax but merely replaces one a federal one being repealed. Critics say a pandemic is not the time.