“It’s been 13 years since more than 156,000 West Virginians gained health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
As sweeping and sometimes controversial as the ACA has been, its longer-term effects are still being felt today at the state level.
Gary Zuckett, executive director of the West Virginia Citizen Action Group, pointed to a new West Virginia law capping insulin copays at $35 per month. The law goes into effect January 1.
‘I think we now have the best insulin copay cap legislation in the country that we just helped get passed in a very red legislature,’ Zuckett noted. “Which does show you that health care is not partisan.'”