Healthcare reform - subsidy eligibility calculator

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

well, at least you will be comforted in knowing you make enough to subsidize others, but not yourself. well, no more than you already do!

Unless Honu is making over $200,000-$250,000 a year, or visiting the tanning salon, Honu's not "subsidizing" anything

Honu, you get work coverage or have to buy your own?

One good thing it does for all riders ... all those aches, pains, broken bones that most riders get along the way, and the total back/knee soreness +/- arthritis when you get over 40 is no longer "pre-existing" stuff!

And no more paying an arm and a leg for coverage, if you purchase your own health insurance, just because you are in a dangerous sport professionally.

[Honu]

Originally Posted by Riot

Unless Honu is making over $200,000-$250,000 a year, or visiting the tanning salon, Honu's not "subsidizing" anything

Honu, you get work coverage or have to buy your own?

One good thing it does for all riders ... all those aches, pains, broken bones that most riders get along the way, and the total back/knee soreness +/- arthritis when you get over 40 is no longer "pre-existing" stuff!

And no more paying an arm and a leg for coverage, if you purchase your own health insurance, just because you are in a dangerous sport professionally.

I get insurance through my partners job, I cant say that I know of any back stretch workers who are insured through their bosses. Like I said I didnt have to take any exam for the insurance I have and I wasnt asked any questions about pre-existing injuries. I was just curious and calculated in my income and it gave me just about the same exact numbers I pay now. I make scale salary for my job in Ca. I dont know what others make back east.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Honu

I get insurance through my partners job, I cant say that I know of any back stretch workers who are insured through their bosses. Like I said I didnt have to take any exam for the insurance I have and I wasnt asked any questions about pre-existing injuries. I was just curious and calculated in my income and it gave me just about the same exact numbers I pay now. I make scale salary for my job in Ca. I dont know what others make back east.

Sounds like a good deal for you. You boss "may" be able to afford to directly offer some employees insurance with this if he wants, due to the big tax credits available to him, and the lower cost of insurance on exchanges.

I'm on the individual temporary exchange now. The best thing is my pre-existing conditions are now covered, for less than I paid without them covered before recission. When I moved across state lines, 25 years of paying regularly for health insurance went out the window, and I got a huge increase just for writing a new policy in a new state - with everything I'd had in the past excluded from coverage.

When you get my age, the ACA encouragement for free wellness checks to catch stuff early is huge. This will be terrific for lower to middle-income folks 35-60, who have diabetes, heart trouble, etc. and couldn't afford insurance before. The preventive care savings will be marked.

I paid maybe $150 a month for my 21-28-year old employees through a small business group plan ... ah, youth!

[Honu]

Here in Ca. backstretch people can go to a medical and dental service that the horseman and track fund. Its not free but its hugely discounted, but you have to sign paperwork claiming poverty.