What does the health care bill mean to me?

[SxyMartini]

What does the health care bill mean to me?

The health-care overhaul will change the way millions of Americans get health insurance and require nearly everyone to have health insurance or face penalties. A number of factors - including income, age, location and family size - will determine how it specifically impacts your life. This tool looks at what it could mean for your health coverage and taxes based on your income, family size and current insurance status.

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

Graphic by Wilson Andrews and Karen Yourish - The Washington Post, March 21, 2010

[JakeandEmmasMom]

Is the premium calculator per month or per year?  It didn't seem clear to me.

[SxyMartini]

not sure I tried it and said my taxes wouldn't go up. 

[JakeandEmmasMom]

Quoting SxyMartini:

not sure I tried it and said my taxes wouldn't go up. 

Our taxes will go up, but our insurance premiums will range from the same as we are paying now  to as much as $300 a month more.  Lovely.

[conniecabe]

 

Quoting JakeandEmmasMom:

 

Quoting SxyMartini:

not sure I tried it and said my taxes wouldn't go up. 

Our taxes will go up, but our insurance premiums will range from the same as we are paying now  to as much as $300 a month more.  Lovely.

Taxes aren't going to go up unless you make over $200K a year. Since these same people benfited when the Bush tax cuts were instated, I have no problems with them paying it all back through this health care tax.

 Is it possible for premiums to rise any more than they have in the last decade? This is why I wanted for profit insurance companies completely out of the loop and off the table.  They're still making a windfall, albeit they can no longer deny services to anyone with pre-existing conditions.  I guess they could also lose money now that they can't cap health care benefits. It's definitely a step in the right direction....but does it go far enough?

   I would've loved to have seen a truly universal health care program (like medicare for all) pass.  They say baby steps...I want a giant leap! ARGHHH!

[Joqui]

My medicaid payroll taxes will increase by 0.9% (from 1.4 to 2.35%) and I will have to pay a 3.8% tax on investment income...

we are making way more money this year so I can understand why...

I wonder if we are still going to have to pay 300.00 a wk for healthcare? or if that is going to be changed somehow. We have pretty sucky insurance

[rotPferd]

I must be missing something here and no one else has seemed mentioned it. Great, whoo-hoo everyone gets insurance, but insurance wouldn't cost so much in the first place if doctors and hospitals and pharma didn't cost so much.

[Joqui]

so true... i heard a very interesting show the other day on how that came about very screwed up

Quoting rotPferd:

I must be missing something here and no one else has seemed mentioned it. Great, whoo-hoo everyone gets insurance, but insurance wouldn't cost so much in the first place if doctors and hospitals and pharma didn't cost so much.

[Pepperlynns]

we will receive tax credits

[survivorinohio]

Quoting rotPferd:

I must be missing something here and no one else has seemed mentioned it. Great, whoo-hoo everyone gets insurance, but insurance wouldn't cost so much in the first place if doctors and hospitals and pharma didn't cost so much.

This is the part of all this that causes me to pause.

The system is screwed up at its root and this seems like kind of a bandaid fo the people that fails to heal the system in its faultiest areas..

I am in full support of reform, and of coverage for all but the only way that is truly feasible is to really reform the system.

[mommy3378]

Well it looks to me like I will still be paying 400$ a month for insurance..is it going to be better insurance? Because I pay around 400$ a month right now and I get nothing for it! a 10grand deductible and only 4 doctor visits covered.....and I really can't afford this now... but have no other choice.

and what do they mean by Employers have to give insurance..my husbands employer offers insurance but we have to pay for it and its more than the 400$ we pay now....