Story<\/a><\/p>\nThey did an analysis taking a hypothetical person making just above the subsidy cutoff and see if the cheapest of the cheapest plans meets the requirement that the policy cost less than 8% of income for a 50 year old. (roughly $50k * .08 \/ 12 = $333 a month). In large areas of the country, you can’t – and that’s before the last minute changes allowing many healthy people to not buy the new ACA policies – fully expect the policy I just bought to zoom up in price as actuarial assumptions are adjusted.<\/p>\n
This 8% of income test is one of the “escape clauses” that allows people to remain uninsured and not have to pay the $95\/1% of income penaltax.<\/p>\n
USA today also chimes in that these low end bronze accounts have $5-$6,000 deductibles that the typical middle class person likely won’t be able to pay – meaning either that they won’t seek medical treatment or they’ll stick the hospital with unpaid bills.<\/p>\n
You may notice that nowhere in this story do they use the word “Obamacare” – the new “N” word. By the time this plays out, the media will be telling us the Affordable Care Act was a Republican idea. Republicans really need to stay out of “fixing” Obamacare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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