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Originally posted by Fusion View PostDo I need to care about any this if I'm paying health care abroad?If you haven’t applied for insurance on HealthCare.gov before, here's what you need to know about the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Learn more about the eligibility criteria to enroll in health coverage through the Marketplace.
U.S. citizens living outside the U.S.
U.S. citizens living in a foreign country are not required to get health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. If you're uninsured and living abroad, you don't have to pay the fee that other uninsured U.S. citizens may have to pay.
That said, if you an expat but not gone for 330 days a year... then here's a long unclear answer: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-aca13.html
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From the trenches. Don't get sick people.
The industry is changing. The new mantra is: "Do more with less, for more." It is becoming a production line. So wait for a long time, then your turn comes and in a instant, the staff has come and gone. I suggest while you wait, (and you will) right down your questions and concerns and see how many of them get answered and how many get deferred,
NEXT!
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Side note, went to our insurance and quarterly meetings yesterday.
If I want to keep my exact same plan, BANG 20% increase. And I already use a CHDP with a high deductible and an HSA.
Looks like I'll be taking the new plan with a nearly doubled deductible which will be approx. 33% of the cost of my existing plan starting next year.Need parts now? Need them cheap? steve@blunttech.com
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My insurance got better and cheaper this year. Granted - I work for a hospital so more insured people isn't the worst thing in the world even if Medicare reimbursement rates are dropping.
You know - what I think people fail to understand is that the uninsured are only guaranteed treatment from emergency rooms. That's not exactly the cheapest way to go. Whether you like it or not it costs tax payers anyways - so you may as well give people access to primary/preventative care. It's cheaper for everyone in the long run. I rarely see self pay ER bills below 5k. You can pay for a lot of obamacare for $5000."We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgement to shine."
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Originally posted by rwh11385 View PostGot benefits package today... rates going up $7.22 a month [oh noes?]
Originally posted by Turf1600 View PostMy insurance got better and cheaper this year. Granted - I work for a hospital so more insured people isn't the worst thing in the world even if Medicare reimbursement rates are dropping.
You know - what I think people fail to understand is that the uninsured are only guaranteed treatment from emergency rooms. That's not exactly the cheapest way to go. Whether you like it or not it costs tax payers anyways - so you may as well give people access to primary/preventative care. It's cheaper for everyone in the long run. I rarely see self pay ER bills below 5k. You can pay for a lot of obamacare for $5000.Need parts now? Need them cheap? steve@blunttech.com
Chief Sales Officer, Midwest Division—Blunt Tech Industries
www.gutenparts.com
One stop shopping for NEW, USED and EURO PARTS!
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Technically that's a ~16% bump, but the baseline was tiny to begin with. ($2500 deductible) All the talk of companies dropping coverage to "save" taking the tax versus cost of benefits ignore that many use benchmarking to compare to their competition because they know the free market will have the workers they need go elsewhere. Papa John retracted his empty threats pretty fast, and that was just for a restaurant job.
Thanks Patrick for sharing your perspective. And yes, most people ignore the strain uninsured put on the ER. Or how those costs when unpaid get passed on like Chris said.
Buddy - there were plenty of opportunities to improve parts but instead they sat pissed in the corner and didn't want to work with anyone. And wasted a lot of time on trying to scrap rather than modify. And shutdown the government and risked default instead of, again, compromising to find a better solution.
And if it got repealed, the next opportunity might have been single payer so fighting instead of fixing made no sense. No no, the preference was ignore the problem entirely and not offer alternatives and then realize they didn't have the votes for anything they don't gerrymander.
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Originally posted by nando View PostThey could work on fixing the problems, but instead they chose to waste over 40 bills to repeal it entirely.
Also, it was a window of opportunity - the GOP would never in a million years have passed a universal healthcare bill, flawed or no.
Universal healthcare is when they take it out of everyone's income tax and you never see a bill.
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