Keroseneuser
Veteran
- Aug 9, 2011
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I was under the impression that you had coverage through your work from previous posts. Are you one of the ones affected by the ACA cancellations of coverage? If so I would like to see how your aca rates compare to what you previously had. I have a friend that lost his policy due to ACA and his new rates are going to be double. (Lost his policy due to the prenatal care section of the law etc. he is single and had a policy that reflected that a male had no need for gyno exams etc, but now he has to pay for that in a policy for himself since under aca all must have such coverage. At least that is the way it was explained to him) I have seen articles about the growing number of people losing their existing coverage due to the law and the much higher premiums required to replace it. Absent a major rewrite of parts of the ACA that is where I see it imploding on it's self. Only asking due to your quote above talking about trying to get signed up for ACA. Again I was under the impression that you were covered by your work policy. So far my policy is still good though I did get a letter saying that some of the medical facilities and Doctors in the state that currently are part of my coverage will not be available come January due to the ACA. So while not a complete loss of coverage, it is not "If you like your coverage you can keep it" as we were led to believe by Obama's speeches. Best I can figure from what I have seen my level of coverage that I have for my family that I pay around $600 a month for would be the highest level in the ACA and would run me about $1500 a month. though difficult to tell since apparently the actual price and the calculated price are very different from what various news reports are saying. If that is the case it might be north of $1500 a month. As it is I am incurring an 11% rise in coverage cost for next year. More than double the highest cost increase I have seen in the past 10 years.I have not finished the enrollment process (somewhat lengthy) but SS# is optional. I put wage info in. No other personal info so far.
My understanding is that no personal medical info is provided or needed as pre-existing conditikns are covered. The ACA site just matches the user with individual plans offered by various providers. The provideres will be the ones with your medical info not the Fed.