NEWS: American Rescue Plan boosts Covered California subsidies

In the latest TEAFLIX episode with Angie & Ruth McCartney of McCartney Multimedia, We discuss how new laws/legislation are affecting Health Insurance. President Biden & Congress passed the "American Rescue Plan" in March to help people deal with COVID. How did that impact health insurance?

• answer: bigger subsidies, especially for people who received unemployment income in 2021

ALSO: How did we get this crazy system with the population segmented by age and job status? Why not just a simple national health plan like much of the rest of the world?

Wouldn't universal healthcare be better?