From what I can tell there are even some silver plans that don't cover primary care. People that haven't bought insurance before are going to get caught by this and be stuck in that policy until next year. The policies that do cover primary care cost $10-50 dollars more per month in premiums. All the attention has been on the nonfunctional website. The media have done a really poor job informing the public of these other serious pitfalls.
There is some beautiful symbolism the republicans could use to start the drumbeat of repeal: the reset button. So simple, so effective, so in-your-face to Hillary.
Did you include the new tax on health insurance premiums in your calculation?
In California’s exchange policies, the ones designated “catastrophic coverage” were the ones that had limited primary care. Because they had all of the other federally mandated coverage, though, the premiums were, as you described, only a few bucks less than the regular plans.
Obama has brought us a new series of difinitions with modifiers: we now have marriage and real marriage, and catastrophic insurance and real catastrophic insurance.