Posted on 12/25/2013 10:31:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With the deadline to sign up for Obamacare having come and gone, many Americans have decided to opt out of President Obamas signature health care reform law, choosing instead to pay the $95 penalty for sidestepping the individual mandate.
For many Americans opting out of Obamacare is the best decision they can make, but it's important that they do it the right wayjust refusing to buy health insurance and not having another way to pay for catastrophic medical expenses is a mistake, Sean Parnell, author of the newly-released The Self-Pay Patient, told Breitbart News. People who want to opt out should be looking at alternatives to conventional health insurance, such as joining a health care sharing ministry or purchasing a fixed benefits policy."
Parnell also strongly advises Americans against opting out and simply paying the list price for medical visits and prescription drugs without shopping around, or by relying solely on the local hospital emergency room for routine medical care.
This approach leaves people who opt out vulnerable to sky-high medical expenses at inflated list or chargemaster rates, and can result in an inability to obtain needed care because of cost, Parnell writes on his blog, selfpaypatient.com.
Instead, Parnell recommends the following eight options for those who have opted out of ObamaCare:
1. Join a health care sharing ministry, which are voluntary, charitable membership organizations that share medical expenses among the membership.
Parnell states that Samaritan Ministries, Christian Healthcare Ministries, and Christian Care Ministry are open to practicing Christians, while Liberty HealthShare is open to those who are committed to religious liberty.
Healthcare sharing ministries operate entirely outside of ObamaCares regulations, and typically offer benefits for about half the cost of similar health insurance, says Parnell. Members are also exempt from having to pay the tax for being uninsured.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If You Have Individual Insurance Cancel It
4 your Country ^ | 10/30/2013 | 4yourcountry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3085567/posts?page=73#73
http://www.4yourcountry.org/2013/10/if-you-have-individual-insurance-cancel-it.html
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