"When I got pregnant, I didn't have insurance," said Alondra Toribio, 24, who has a 3-year-old son. For the single mother, now making just over $1,000 a month while working for a Head Start program, the expense of raising a child is overwhelming. Toribio, of Owensboro, said her current employer offers insurance, but the employee contribution would eat up more than half her take-home pay. "If I were to get that insurance," she said, "I would only come home with like $100 a week." Both she and her son have health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid benefits to millions of Americans who couldn't previously qualify.

Source: CNN March 10, 2017 20:37 UTC