Chuck Grimes wrote: > MediCal and Medicare give you charts to estimate your cost, within income brackets. How truthful you are will reflect your costs or near costs. Verification is a separate system that notifies you after a few weeks of submitting formal paperwork or request. If you were honest and followed the guidelines, you get pretty close. The guidelines are structured to slightly over estimate your cost. <
Yes, a revealing contrast. The private insurance industry does not want to help prospective enrollees see, if they play around with what-if estimates, that premiums vary widely by age and by location of residence. The feds are servants of the industry. In addition, the Administration wanted to sign up people, especially young adults, quickly to minimize the time they have to consider whether to risk an income tax penalty instead. Medicare is such a good deal that nearly everyone turning 65 wants to enroll. An Administration talking point to minimize the failure of the Web portal is that it is for health insurance purchased by individuals, outside employment coverage and Medicaid. A relatively small 15 million people are involved. However, people tend to fall into this market when they suffer a spell of unemployment. After a few years, many tens of millions of people will have experienced the Web portal. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
