Biden Plans to Expand Health Care Coverage for DACA Recipients

The Biden administration on Thursday announced a regulation that would make nearly 600,000 immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children but lack legal immigration status eligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs.

The proposed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule would allow those enrolled in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as “Dreamers,” to obtain coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, if they meet other eligibility rules.

Established in 2012 to protect unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors from deportation, DACA allows beneficiaries to live and work in the country legally on two-year increments. It does not give them permanent legal status or a path to U.S citizenship.

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