Posted on 04/01/2014 1:35:30 PM PDT by matt04
Connecticut officials say the state's health insurance marketplace is on track to sign up about 200,000 people in health plans by the enrollment deadline, double the original goal of 100,000 individuals.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited Access Health CT office in Hartford on Monday. He urged people without coverage to spend the final hours before the midnight deadline enrolling online, calling the hotline or getting in line at one of the two storefronts operated by the marketplace, Access Health CT, in New Britain and New Haven.
Malloy said if people submit basic personal information by midnight, their applications can be completed in the coming days.
As of Sunday night, 191,961 people had signed up for coverage, with 74,000 in private health plans and the rest in government-funded Medicaid.
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I doubt CT release how may LOST lost their insurance thanks to ObamaCare.
The spark and giddiness with which elected officials cheerlead for government servitude and the welfare state is nauseating at best and alarming at worst.
No prepared notes needed - they give themselves away with their enthusiasm for socialism.
I'm sure the locations are just a coincidence. Right?
Probably not too many for private insurance. CT was not so hard hit, as their insurance rates and plans were already heavily burdened by all kinds of mandates. As for Medicaid, like with most states, that is largely a transfer from the state-run Husky program which ended last year and folded into the state Medicaid program.
I’m in CT. Used to have a CT Anthem plan for about $300 a month. Now that plan isn’t available and the cheapest Anthem plan available for me is over $500 a month with massive deductibles.
(I’m not eligible for subsidies and didn’t use the Exchange.)
I am one of those who purchased a private plan in the exchange. I cancelled my self employed coverage because
1. Pricing slightly better
2. I like one of the providers better than the best priced business one
3. I could get subsidy if I have a bad year or if I do creative accounting.
So many self employed are just swapping plans. They are not picking up new insurance. I fully expect that I might do better without the exchange once the initial teaser rates are increased.
CT already had more liberal insurance coverage requirements than the Obama care. We were already paying for the unwanted coverages.
I’m in CT also. Cheapest plan for me is about $300/ month. Factoring in thr deductables, I would be about 10k out of pocket before insurance pays.
That is assuming I could find a doctor, specialist, etc. that would accept the plan, should I have to use it. Needles to say, I’m not being that “affordable” plan.
Take a closer look at those deductibles. They are not for out patient care. Also, I found all of our regular DR’s were in the plan we chose.
Why not? If you're not taking subsidies, what's your beef?
I’m a conscientious objector.
I also think they’re crappier plans than what’s still available in the regular market.
“Why not? If you’re not taking subsidies, what’s your beef?”
I think the general consensus is that if you’re not getting a subsidy, you’re subsidizing someone else.
Have you looked? From my vantage point an unsubsidized plan in the exchange is no different from one outside the exchange. If it makes good economic sense, go for it, if not don't.
Here’s one difference that applies to me, narrower networks for coverage inside the exchange:
http://ctmirror.org/latest-obamacare-confusion-exchange-plan-provider-networks/
There are other differences as well that make exchange-covered patients less desirable for providers. And an inevitability that costs will skyrocket because of the risk pool of those signing up.
Then of course there is still the greater big brother aspect to the exchange plans.
"1311(d)(4)The Exchange shall [...] (F) in accordance with section 1413, inform individuals of eligibility requirements for the medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act, the CHIP program under title XXI of such Act, or any applicable State or local public program and if through screening of the application by the Exchange, the Exchange determines that such individuals are eligible for any such program, enroll such individuals in such program; "
Be cautious.
If you income drops below a certain amount in a year you could be automatically signed up for Medicaid, in which case your assets are liable to ‘asset recovery’.
This is a danger for those who are self employed or have erratic income from year to year or those on commission who have a bad year (or who were sick and couldn’t make their regular income) or people who were laid off and had a low income until they could find a another job.
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