I checked at ehealthinsurance.com and for my zip code they only show 2 insurers with 20 plans. Looking elsewhere I know there are at least 6 insurers with 70 plans for my area so I think it's not the complete picture.
John if you or others find my application, please complete it, I'll do the same.
MRG
This is nice...but it doesn't ask ages so bears little relationship to what cost might be for some, particularly for people over 50.
I noticed something interesting in the legalconsumer.com website. It says in order to receive the "cost sharing" subsidy (different from the tax credit subsidy) you need to buy a silver plan (not bronze, not gold, not platinum).
I noticed something interesting in the legalconsumer.com website. It says in order to receive the "cost sharing" subsidy (different from the tax credit subsidy) you need to buy a silver plan (not bronze, not gold, not platinum).
I'm still trying to confirm with certainty that this doesn't apply to American Indians below 300% of FPL, who (as far as I can tell) can get any plan offered on the Exchange with no cost sharing at all. If that's the case I can get a Bronze plan for less than $100 a month and no copays or deductibles.
That's what it looks like, if you meet certain conditionsI'm still trying to confirm with certainty that this doesn't apply to American Indians below 300% of FPL, who (as far as I can tell) can get any plan offered on the Exchange with no cost sharing at all. If that's the case I can get a Bronze plan for less than $100 a month and no copays or deductibles.
If you’re a member of a federally recognized tribe:
If you buy private insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplace, you won’t have to pay out-of-pocket costs like deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance if your income is up to around $70,650 for a family of 4 ($88,320 in Alaska). (These are 2013 figures, and likely to be slightly higher in 2014.)
You can enroll in Marketplace health insurance any month, not just during the yearly open enrollment period.
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FINALLY, this is looking so much better. I'm very excited to have gotten to this step in the process!
Thanks for the update. I tried to log in after reading your message. I created my third account with a new email. I couldn't log in with the first 2. Also, on my desktop, the site does not work with Chrome. I used Internet Explorer. I live in FL and for some reason the system thought I lived in GA. I exited and added a new application that showed FLorida so I now have two applications. I filled in the FL application to the end. When I clicked submit, it displayed please wait and then nothing happened. I did this 3 times. I then logged out and got the PDF like you did, but I can't look at plans yet. I called the help line, but they said the wait time was 20 minutes and it's late so I'll try tomorrow. Getting closer, but still not thereI input all the info and submitted and I got a confirmation and a PDF Eligibility Letter document to save. It stated that we are eligible for a subsidy and the amount. It offered me the option of how to get the subsidy (monthly applied to our premium, or at tax return time) and if we both wanted to enroll in the same plans or different plans.
I wonder what happens to these "zombies" accounts. Hopefully they will get automatically deleted somehow, and not cause problems later down the road.
I logged on bright and early to avoid the rush. My account was still there and the profile info was correct and I still have a zombie application for GA and the valid one for FL, but I can't see any plans. Tried a chat - the rep came on very quickly and then disappeared so I called the helpline. Right now my Florida application says approved and I have received about 15 PDF notices of eligibility explaining the subsidies. The notices are all identical. My next step, according to the notice, is to choose a plan, but there are no options anywhere for that. The rep put me on hold for a few minutes and came back and said he couldn't handle the problem and promised that I'd get a callback within 2 business days. We'll see.When i couldn't sign on with one of my zombie accounts, I did a chat and asked the rep to delete my bad accounts. He said he couldn't do that.
What a joke. I logged on again this morning and it prompts me to resume application. Then I get an orange box telling me to go to details of application to fix any outstanding issues. I do that and get an error message saying page cannot be found and to contact them with error message given. I contact them through chat and they simply tell me to keep trying that glitches would soon be fixed. Right.
This is the same message I got a week ago. How in the heck do they expect to have people enrolled by the time this is suppose to go in effect? They need to waive all this BS for a year until they get a handle on it. This is no way to implement a new system.
I'm familiar with some of the insurance companies and know our providers are in-network. Some of the other insurance companies have very few providers in our area. I know this may change as all this catches on. Some of the links to provider directories don't work so I'll wait and see if that gets updated.
I created an account last week and by this weekend it was unusable. I noticed that they changed the requirements for creating a userid and password and my old userid no longer met those requirements.