If you missed a couple of quarterly payments, they might try to take your home - sell it at auction.
Six million other beneficiaries cover their premiums with direct quarterly payments.
Despite a simpler Federal system, employers still had to make quarterly payments in most states.
The new rules have been applied since the quarterly payment due on June 15 last year.
All the companies were pressing for the bill to become law before new quarterly payments come due April 15.
Ordinarily, the program makes quarterly payments for up to 18 months, she said.
The state is only going to make three quarterly payments next year, and the last one the following year.
The agency makes quarterly and sometimes monthly payments on these agreements.
Under the current terms, the first of 16 quarterly payments, $37 million, would be due Dec. 31.
And the start of the eight quarterly payments has been moved up to December.