• If your business makes less than $500,000, you don’t have to provide insurance for workers. Before, the barrier was $250,000. source

• If you’re poor and paying premiums, you can now get subsidies after paying 12% of your income for premiums. Before, it was just 11%. source

• Medical providers (like doctors) will work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services on rates, instead of rates being tied to Medicare. source

• The public health plan won’t be the only option states can offer – a co-op medical plan is in the works. Details are currently being hashed out. source

• Medicaid isn’t completely on the federal government’s back anymore – in the updated deal, states will help pay for it, too. source

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