As businesses shut down and millions of Americans are laid off from their jobs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one question policymakers have not yet adequately addressed is how to best help the millions of people losing health insurance from their employer.
The Economic Policy Institute estimated on April 2 that at least 3.5 million people lost their employer-sponsored health insurance in the prior two weeks, and that was before the Department of Labor estimated that millions more have lost their jobs since then.
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