Better health insurance!

[sonia]

If you got unemployment at any point in 2021, you can get platinum-level coverage for around $1/month through the Affordable Care Act. Mine is $3/month and I haven't had real coverage like this ($100 deductible! $5 to see my doctor!) since I can remember, or maybe ever. I thought it was spam when I got an email about it, but I went through healthcare.gov and it does appear to be real. Deadline is end of July to change coverage. You have to go through your whole application to find the one added checkbox about unemployment. Then choose a silver plan. This counts as a "Special Enrollment Period."

Best reference I could find, search in here for "unemployment": How the American Rescue Plan Act Affects Subsidies for Marketplace Shoppers and People Who Are Uninsured by Matthew Rae, Cynthia Cox, Gary Claxton, Daniel McDermott, and Anthony Damico.