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Health Insurance!?..

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If you don't have employer provided health insurance, and don't qualify for Medicaid in your state, then you should probably find out what your options are through Obamacare. There's a website where you can enter some basic information, and it will tell you what plans are available in your area, for what cost. That will help you narrow things down a lot.

A band mate who is a full time musician, signed up for Obamacare and then shortly after, came down with a major illness that nearly killed him and put him in the hospital for several weeks. His insurance covered him with no surprises.
 
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buldog5151bass said:
Different plans for the companies - tough to say one company is better per se. However, if you go to the individual company websites, you will get better rates than through the government site.

Been there done that.
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If you qualify for the ACA insurance premium subsidy (monthly tax credit), don't you have to get the policy from healthcare.gov, or your state's exchange if they have one? There's an official government approval process. The tax credit subsidy toward the monthly premiums can be huge, depending on household income and which policy you choose.
 
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The good news is that you will be able to get insurance and it will be a legitimate policy unlike a lot of individual insurance pre ACA / Obamacare. The bad news, it will cost money. Plans vary greatly state to state. It would help you get better advice if you mentioned your state. Hopefully this doesn't violate TB no politics policy, but my personal opinion is that we have cemented the notion of a national healthcare plan, the next logical step will be universal health care and I think that will come sooner rather than later.
 
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One thing to keep in mind about the "Marketplace/ObamaCare" plans is that if you do get a plan through it you may have a hard time finding a doctor who will take you. Make sure to read the fine print and if you already have doctors you've been going to then check to make sure they are in-network for whatever plan you're looking at.

I don't know about Ohio but here in Texas it took me two months to find a general physician doctor who would take me as I was told multiple times that "we are not currently accepting any more patients with Marketplace plans". After finally finding my general physician it took me three more months to find a urologist to take me for that exact same reason, and another month to find a surgery center that the urologist operated out of who was in my network. When I enrolled in the exact same plan for 2016 the cost went up $65 per month as did costs to visit the doctors...and now I'm looking for a part or full time job that actually offers benefits.

Moral of the story: be careful and conduct a lot of your own research! Good luck.
 

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