interactive tool - What does the health care bill mean to me
Pepe Silvia
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What does the health care bill mean to me?
The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health insurance or face penalties. A number of factors - including income, age, location and family size - will determine how it specifically impacts your life. This tool looks at what it could mean for your health coverage and taxes based on your income, family size and current insurance status.
What does the health care bill mean to me?
The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health insurance or face penalties. A number of factors - including income, age, location and family size - will determine how it specifically impacts your life. This tool looks at what it could mean for your health coverage and taxes based on your income, family size and current insurance status.
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
"You will receive tax credits to help afford insurance premiums in the new exchanges as well as assistance with deductibles and co-paymens. According to your income and family size, the tax credits will ensure you do not spend more than $3325 on premiums. Your maximum out-of-pocket costs for deductibles and co-payments would be capped at 30% of the total cost."
If I use the income I hope to have in 2010
"You will be able to buy health insrance in the new exchange but will not get any subsidies to help with premiums or out-of-pocket expenses"
Both answers also gave me the blurb Pepe Silvia posted above ^ about the $695 penalty.
No effect.
However it doesn't mention some really important things. For example, if I get cancer, my insurance company will not be able to go through my files and find some technicality or typo and use it to drop my coverage just when I need that lifesaving chemo or surgery. (Ban on recissions).
But...
- when I go to the emergency room now with a REAL medical emergency, I won't have to wait in line behind the poor and uninsured people with the flu or colds or cuts or needing a tetanus shot. (and who's paying for that, exactly?)
- I won't have to see the hundreds of people waiting in line for hours outside the Staples Center every month for the "mobile free clinic" which is something you'd expect in a third-world nation.
- I'll get to hear more kids playing in the park since more of them will be alive.
So I'm thinking that I'm getting the sweet end of this deal.
So that's kinda nice, too.
I have insurance through work, but we buy my wife's insurance privately. They don't seem to have an answer for that combination.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
yesterday, i plugged in our #s and go this:
Your Medicare payroll taxes will increase by 0.9% (from 1.45% to 2.35%) and you will have to pay a 3.8% tax on investment income.
today, plugged it in again and got:
You will not pay any additional taxes.
wonder what changed from yesterday to today. either way i am ok with it. i think this is an important first step. it may be imperfect, but it is a necessary step in the right direction imo.
as far as insurance, same answer both days:
There will be no change to your insurance coverage.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'