In 2010, President Barack Obama passed theAffordable Care Act (ACA)or Obamacare to help reduce healthcare costs for families and ensure more people were able to access health insurance. Originally, it required everyone to have qualifying insurance, or they would face a tax penalty. However, it...
Places to Get Health Care Without Insurance The worst possible way to control your health care costs is to avoid going to the doctor. When you put off dealing with small medical problems, they can turn into much bigger, harder-to-deal-with problems. In the long run, you’ll end up payi...
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While all Obamacare health insurance plans include certain benefits, how much the insurance company pays for your healthcare costs varies. Every plan falls into one of four metal levels, categories that help you determine the percentage of costs a plan will pay. Metal levels include Bronze, Silv...
If you don’t get insurance through an employer or Medicare, HHS recommends you learn about health insurance coverage provided by Medicaid, CHIP or the health insurance marketplaces by visitingHealthCare.gov. The health insurance marketplace, created by the federal and state governments to...
Would you prefer to save your money or sink it into something with real value, such as gold? Believe it or not, under ObamaCare it is possible to do this without penalty. Here’s how: 1. Don’t purchase health insurance. 2. Underpay your federal income tax throughout the year so th...
Nobody really believed that all 47 million uninsured people would suddenly get health insurance under Obamacare, despite the subsidies and penalties. But the fact that five years has gone by and 60% of those who were uninsured are still uninsured seems like another example of incredible government...
Since 2014 I have purchased my health insurance throughObamacare. You have no idea how much harder and more expensive getting healthcare insurance was before Obamacare as a self-employed worker! I believe more people would be open to taking the leap into self-employment if they had a better...
"Health insurance is about enabling people with the financial means to get health care and giving financial protections when they get sick," Collins said. The ACA "is enabling people to get the health care they need by removing barriers, and it's also reducing some of the major financial is...
The Affordable Care Act (also called Obamacare) has dramatically reshaped health insurance requirements in the United States. Initially passed into law in 2010 and challenged multiple times since then, some businesses aren’t aware of what obligations and incentives the act includes for them. Th...