website to calculate prices for the new health insurance exchanges

[dsonyay]

http://www.valuepenguin.com/ppaca/exchanges

Unless you have good insurance with your employer, the exchanges are not cheap.

Pick the state and fill out the basics and the prices are displayed.

 

[Trey@IG]

i think id rather take the penalty.....

 

[Sully]

Wow...eye opening

 

[XDguy]

All of those are more than I pay now for private insurance for my family of 4....although it is going up at an alarming rate.

 

[Neil09]

Yep, penalty it is.

 

[JBE]

And I thought what I paid at work was high? Geez....

Doesn't look too "affordable" to me...

 

[dsonyay]

Eventually your insurance will go out of business and these will be the plans you have to use.

 

[Mojo Rider]

The "exchanges" are only for those people hoping to receive a subsidy from the government to help pay their premiums. The rest of us can still purchase health insurance off the exchange. If you own a private health insurance policy not affiliated with your employer, like XDguy, your insurance agent should be making changes to your policies annual renewal date to ensure that your rate will not be affected by PPACA until January of 2015.
If not, well then you can expect a huge rate increase on your 2014 renewal month and you should probably be looking for a new health insurance agent.

 

[AK shooter]

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-...s[1][tobacco]=0&child-count=3&child-tobacco=0

This is the one I used from healthcare.gov website.

 

[olivs260]

Yeah now go in there and change your income to, say, 1/3 of what you actually earn. For me, a silver plan drops from $708.62 per month down to $204.26, thanks to a $504.37 subsidy. Your tax dollars at work.

 

[Ritten]

The white house got GRILLED yesterday with some tough questions on healthcare from the media.....*sigh*....




I had to look twice at the reporter to see if it was one of the guys I work with. (*&^%& idiots!

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

http://www.valuepenguin.com/ppaca/exchanges

Not working for me with Firefox or Chrome.

 

[Expert684]

Plain and simple it is a tax. People that make more pay than people that make less pay less. But they both get the same coverage. It's just some B.S. plan to give better health coverage to people of lesser income, but at someone else expense.

 

[rtr_rtr]

Yeah now go in there and change your income to, say, 1/3 of what you actually earn. For me, a silver plan drops from $708.62 per month down to $204.26, thanks to a $504.37 subsidy. Your tax dollars at work.

Where do you think the money is coming from to pay for the care of the uninsured currently?

 

[JadeRaven]

Where do you think the money is coming from to pay for the care of the uninsured currently?

Yeah they're already being subsidized/paid for by tax dollars.

However some uninsured find and pay for their own care, or seek less expensive care, or do not seek care.

 

[JNieman]

BCBS reports our plan will have an increase due to the change in healthcare in the country. 0.5% rise in our premiums. Which, anything under 10% in a given renewal period is a blessing, so I'm gonna go ahead and figure we're good.

 

[bhart89]

Anyone who thought the goal of Obamacare was to reduce health insurance costs is a rube. The facts are simple, if you want to reduce costs of healthcare you reduce consumption of unnecessary prodecures but the problem is that every hospital who buys the latest imaging machine will have an ROI spreadsheet that shows how many patients they need to run through it to break even so they send as many peoples they can through unnecessary tests.

 

[rtr_rtr]

Anyone who thought the goal of Obamacare was to reduce health insurance costs is a rube. The facts are simple, if you want to reduce costs of healthcare you reduce consumption of unnecessary prodecures but the problem is that every hospital who buys the latest imaging machine will have an ROI spreadsheet that shows how many patients they need to run through it to break even so they send as many peoples they can through unnecessary tests.

Rationing discussion gets health reform bills shut down. Political strategy - expand access -> get people to become satisfied with the new system -> manage costs. Same thing happened in Massachussets

 

[Nomad.2nd]

BCBS reports our plan will have an increase due to the change in healthcare in the country. 0.5% rise in our premiums. Which, anything under 10% in a given renewal period is a blessing, so I'm gonna go ahead and figure we're good.

Till next year when they raise it.

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/63737924453/video-dave-ramsey-lays-out-the-facts-of-obamacare-for

 

[JNieman]

Till next year when they raise it.

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/63737924453/video-dave-ramsey-lays-out-the-facts-of-obamacare-for

The policy they've implemented indicates that's not how they're running it, and not how they're applying any increased cost burden. Of course this can change on a whim, but for now their policy for handling any increased costs from the ACA is such that it doesn't affect our plan.

Of course the other variable is us. If our company suddenly loses the major benefit of being mostly young and mostly healthy, then it can change. If we hire a few geriatric cancerous diabetics, I'm sure we'll be jacked up on our premiums.

Just gotta take it as it comes; not much else to do. **** sucks. What's that you always told me? Semper Gumby?