The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands health insurance predominantly through three policies: 1  Medicaid expansion to cover the poorest Americans (those under 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or FPL).
Only eat oysters in months with an 'R.'. This little pearl of folk wisdom carries more truth than you might expect, since the months without the letter R in their names (May through August) coincide with summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
Oyster seedlings latch onto a bit of shell in the water and begin to grow. Cocktail size can start at 1Â½ inches across, perfect for Washingtonâs pearl, the Olympia. But on the Third Coast, down in NOLA, they like their oysters stewed, fried, and baked, barbecued and scalloped at up to 4 inches across.