volinbham
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Just an insurance company that is not based on US soil. They provide coverage here though.
Seems like it would be a pretty limited network.
Sure. It isn't a Cadillac plan. It's for young, healthy folks (catastrophic) plan). She uses it for emergency/walk-in clinics and the ER if she ever went. Although, I wouldn't be suprised if they had better plans for families, older people, sicker people that were less than their counterparts in the US. I haven't researched that (because it doesn't apply to me) so don't hold me to it.
All this is a mute point by the time 2016 rolls around. The penalty jumps to over $600. The cheap penalty makes it an option this year and the next.
yea but do the Drs here deal with them? If there is a delay in the Drs getting paid for services, Drs will refuse to deal with those insurance companies and therefore you.
You pay for what you get so stick with the top insurance companies like UNH, Aetna, BCBS, etc
Sure. It isn't a Cadillac plan. It's for young, healthy folks (catastrophic) plan). She uses it for emergency/walk-in clinics and the ER if she ever went. Although, I wouldn't be suprised if they had better plans for families, older people, sicker people that were less than their counterparts in the US. I haven't researched that (because it doesn't apply to me) so don't hold me to it.
All this is a mute point by the time 2016 rolls around. The penalty jumps to over $600. The cheap penalty makes it an option this year and the next.
Obamacare Reg Treats Congress That Spent $3.5 Trillion as aA Washington D.C. resident who is 57 years old with a spouse who is 53 years old and with three children will pay a premium of $1,493 per month, or $17,916 per year for a Bronze level plan on the Obamacare exchange, according to this calculator. If he and his wife both earn $55,250 per year, they will get $0 in federal subsidies.
However, a family headed by a congressman with the same demographics (and earning the congressmans salary of $174,000) will get a subsidy of $11,378.16 from his "small business" employerthe Treasury of the United States.
But the 834 problem is fixable and, according to multiple sources in the public and private sectors, it is being fixed. In fact, one administration official tells The New Republic that preliminary estimates, just now becoming available, suggest the error rate has fallen from one in four during October to one in ten now. And most of those are files insurers received with errors, as opposed to files insurers never received. Plenty of work remainsnamely, completing repairs that reduce the error rate further and dealing with the flawed data insurers have already received. But the administration is working with insurers and contractors on both issues.
If the number of folks signed up by the deadline is anywhere near to being close (7 million) that's 700K errors.
Minor or not, 10% errpr rate is not a number I'd like to associate my website with.