Calculating costs for ACA with Nads assistance...

[formerlurker]

Humanist_Activist (1,232 posts)

 
So I went to the Washington Post website, calculating costs for ACA in 2014... [View all]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-health-bill-means-for-you/

Accordingly, with the combined incomes of me and my fiancée, we would be on the hook for anywhere from a 180 to 230 dollar monthly copay, and maximum out of pocket of 27 percent of costs. This is after federal assistance unless I read that website incorrectly.

Marital status apparently doesn't affect this, and we are planning on getting married in 2014. In contrast, the penalty for not signing up to a plan is 87 dollars(rounded up to nearest dollar), which I would much prefer to be the premium itself, considering we can't afford the premium mentioned above, hell, even 87 bucks would be a strain on the current budge, and if either I or her increase our incomes too much from where its at now, look for premiums in the 3-400 dollar range, oh joy! 

I do know that most likely our income will increase by then, I don't know if it matters in the calculation above, but my fiancée is on disability and Medicaid right now. When she's well enough to get a job, Medicaid is going to drop her like a bad habit.

So my question is this, are my calculations completely wrong, or are we royally screwed come 2014?

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=881187


Nads and others charge in to assist.  This OP should be an ad for the GOP this fall.   My God what parasites they are.

[JohnnyReb]

$87 PSSSST....lets look at the big picture.

I heard on the radio this morning that the ACA has been calculated to cost the US government 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years....and that calculation was made by the same people that always get the calculations wrong. They always under estimate the cost of anything the government does.

[jukin]

$87 PSSSST....lets look at the big picture.

I heard on the radio this morning that the ACA has been calculated to cost the US government 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years....and that calculation was made by the same people that always get the calculations wrong. They always under estimate the cost of anything the government does.

When it passed it was just under a trillion. Two years later it is just under two trillion. Four years later it will be just under four trillion. All of this to get less than 15 million people, less than 5% of our population on insurance.

[Bad Dog]

When it passed it was just under a trillion. Two years later it is just under two trillion. Four years later it will be just under four trillion. All of this to get less than 15 million people, less than 5% of our population on insurance.

I love me some CBO math.  It's like an acid trip (not that I would know).