Do You Need a SS Number to get ACA Healthcare Insurance?

Tweedle-di and Tweedle-Dum (Oz and Kennedy) believe you do and of course they will say illegals were applying for ACA healthcare insurance in the past. (All lies and jest, but a man is what he wants to be and disregards the rest.) Oops. slipped back to the past in my Wayback Machine mind. Trump believes immigrants are an issue. Well, lets qualify such by saying “immigrants of color.”

“If you import The Third World, you become The Third World,” a common refrain repeated by his advisers. Trump has also said that immigrants have “bad genes,” that they are genetically predisposed to crime, and that they are “poisoning the blood of our country”—coming, as they are, “from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

It doesn’t matter to them the aliens might be here legally. Xenophobia reigns with Trump and the administration plays to it.

As The Atlantic suggests: “Trump could have made the same policy choice without making the racist statements first.” But he did. So, what else is new?

“More than 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security Numbers, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Kennedy called that “a glaring warning sign for fraud” across the Obamacare program and faulted President Trump’s predecessors for not maintaining proper guardrails in social safety net programs.”

Can a person obtain ACA healthcare insurance even though they do not have a Social Security number? The answer is yes. Of course, neither Oz and Kennedy are going to tell you this and neither will their master in the big White House define the issue. Yoomuch to do about illegal aliens and Biden being the cause. Is there some fraud? Hard to do such as you have to have other proof.

So, who can get ACA healthcare insurance in the United States?

“Health Insurance without SSN,” Health for CA (This is Federal Law Requirements)

You can get health insurance without a Social Security number (SSN). If you or a family member doesn’t have an SSN for several reasons, yet you need health insurance, you may wonder if the lack of an SSN would be an obstacle. While you can still get health insurance, you’ll need to meet several conditions to get health insurance without an SSN.

Why a Social Security Number Is Needed

The health insurance marketplace requires an applicant’s SSN to confirm their legal presence in the United States and confirm their projected income matches the information from trusted sources, including Equifax Workforce Solutions, the Social Security Administration and the IRS.

You can still apply for health coverage if you don’t have an SSN if you’re lawfully present in the United States and one of the following is true:

Who Qualifies?

 Live in the U.S., are not incarcerated, and are a citizen or lawfully present. If you’re not a U.S. citizen but a documented immigrant, have applied for certain statuses or have employment authorization with certain statuses, you may qualify to get health insurance without an SSN. The following immigration statuses qualify for health insurance without SSN:

• Asylee
• Refugee
• Paroled in the U.S.
• Cuban/Haitian entrant
• Deferred action status
• Lawful temporary resident
• Lawful permanent resident
• Temporary protected status
• Battered spouse, child and parent
• Granted withholding of deportation
• Victim of trafficking and their spouse
• Individuals with non-immigrant status
• Conditional entrant granted before 1980
• Member of federally-recognized Indian tribe or American Indian born in Canada

There is more to the story. This part explains why there are immigrants in the United States who may qualify to remain in the United States. Of course, to Oz and Kennedy, they are probably illegal.

“Health Insurance without SSN,” Health for CA