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https://www.healthcare.gov/ Now OPEN - Cheap insurance
September 30, 2013 at
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since we have approximately 50 million uninsured, that survey figure comes very close to DHHS estimates of up to 25 million. (I guess the survey total comes out to 18.5 million)
What do you think ObamaCare is trying to solve with the health insurance mandate?
So people like you who don't want to buy health insurance can't be "free riders" when they have an accident or medical emergence.
I just think it's funny as hell that this is being forced on everybody just about and if you don't want to buy into the health conglomerates gouged rates then you pay your $100 or so 'fine' for the first year and hope they repeal this turd of a law by the second year. Hopefully they will repeal it though as I don't see myself keeping the insurance long term.
Any way I look at it I'm going to lose money that I'll NEVER get back. That, to me, is not a slick deal.
BUT, every state treats the definition differently. Interesting read on how it's defined.
Anyways, I would LOVE to think it was that low and you could have charities solve the problem. Totally. I just don't think we are in the real world anymore, per some of the stats I'm reading.
25 million? Gosh, I can't imagine why DHHS would want to promote numbers like that right now.
I guess I'll stick with real numbers like 107,000 until actual data changes it.
I just think it's funny as hell that this is being forced on everybody just about and if you don't want to buy into the health conglomerates gouged rates then you pay your $100 or so 'fine' for the first year and hope they repeal this turd of a law by the second year. Hopefully they will repeal it though as I don't see myself keeping the insurance long term.
Any way I look at it I'm going to lose money that I'll NEVER get back. That, to me, is not a slick deal.
You qualify for medicaid. You currently pay nothing. You will continue to pay nothing. That 6-12% would only come into play if you DIDN'T qualify for medicaid. You will not be fined unless your income shoots up dramatically and you choose not to get (probably partially or fully subsidized!) health insurance.
Please sign up for (free!) medicaid so that when something bad happens you don't run up insane bills for yourself that you can't pay, because others like us will ultimately have to pay them out of our premium increases and taxes.
Please also take full advantage of medicaid and the wonders of preventative medicine, 38 isn't so young and any disease is an expensive proposition.
Thank you.
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since we have approximately 50 million uninsured, that survey figure comes very close to DHHS estimates of up to 25 million. (I guess the survey total comes out to 18.5 million)
Blue Cross wanted to put me in the high risk pool because I have acne as a teenager and they considered it a "pre-existing condition" that is considered high risk.
Basically about 300% to 500% more than people with no "pre-existing conditions".
I guess for most folks, the would just go uninsured because they can't afford it.
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You qualify for medicaid. You currently pay nothing. You will continue to pay nothing. That 6-12% would only come into play if you DIDN'T qualify for medicaid. You will not be fined unless your income shoots up dramatically and you choose not to get (probably partially or fully subsidized!) health insurance.
Please sign up for (free!) medicaid so that when something bad happens you don't run up insane bills for yourself that you can't pay, because others like us will ultimately have to pay them out of our premium increases and taxes.
Please also take full advantage of medicaid and the wonders of preventative medicine, 38 isn't so young and any disease is an expensive proposition.
Thank you.
I guess I'll stick with real numbers like 107,000 until actual data changes it.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/201...0118a.htm
New report: 129 million Americans with a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage without new health reform law.
You qualify for medicaid. You currently pay nothing. You will continue to pay nothing. That 6-12% would only come into play if you DIDN'T qualify for medicaid. You will not be fined unless your income shoots up dramatically and you choose not to get (probably partially or fully subsidized!) health insurance.
Please sign up for (free!) medicaid so that when something bad happens you don't run up insane bills for yourself that you can't pay, because others like us will ultimately have to pay them out of our premium increases and taxes.
Please also take full advantage of medicaid and the wonders of preventative medicine, 38 isn't so young and any disease is an expensive proposition.
Thank you.
I do think ObamaCare is kinda messy right now and will probably need many years to work out the kinks.
But ultimately, the better and more efficient solution would be a universal healthcare system.
"If a state refused to expand coverage then it would lose all of it's Medicaid funding. This was meant as a protection to ensure that states supported their poorest equally. However, the NFIB 'Repeal ObamaCare Effort' worked to some extent; now states are no longer required to insure their poorest under ObamaCare, yet they can still receive the full federal funding for their Medicaid program."
It looks like you be in one of the states that opted out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and kept the old rules not letting you qualify.
That sucks. That's not fair for you.
It doesn't matter who you live with, as long as your income is below $15,000 you will qualify for medicaid.
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How long ago did you try? Remember, rules for Medicaid will change in many states. You should try again.
BUT you might be in one of the states that "opted out" of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
In that case, you are S.O.L.
It doesn't matter who you live with, as long as your income is below $15,000 you will qualify for medicaid.