HEY! Blogslut found Premium Calculator telling what you'd pay f/Health Insurance. How do you fare?

[KittyWampus]

I would qualify for Medicaid.

My Blue Cross premiums just rose to $600 per MONTH. We have a tiny business and that extra $100 per month increase was a 17% rate increase. Not sure where the money will come from.

Here's the link Blogslut found. It's got both House & Senate calculator.


blogslut
7. While there is no final bill yet

There is this calculator:

http://healthreform.kff.org/SubsidyCalculator.aspx

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Good luck finding a doctor who takes it. eom

[KittyWampus]

4. Haven't had any problems yet. How do you fare?

[Hello_Kitty]

15. Are you on Medicaid now?

[blogslut]

2. I didn't find it

Another DUer found to it and I am sorry I don't remember who that was.

Maybe they'll show up in this thread. :)

[Nikki Stone1]

3. Found? It's just the Kaiser calculator. Been around awhile.

And since nothing has been decided yet, the numbers are meaningless.

[KittyWampus]

5. Nothing has been decided yet but there are many, many DU'ers freaking out.

[Nikki Stone1]

11. Well, don't freak them out based on this faulty gadget.

A Duer did this yesterday with a graph taken from numbers derived from this gadget. It's misleading.

[KittyWampus]

12. IMO, it's a useful tool in starting a discussion

[FreakinDJ]

6. 17% Increase - Proof Senate Bill doesn't go far enough

to reign in Insurance Cos

[TicketyBoo]

9. That 17% increase

came before the Senate bill. I know, because that's what we're seeing, too — a 17% increase for 2010.

It's an indication of the way things have been going without government action on health insurance (and the way things will continue to go if the government fails to act).

[Delphinus]

7. If I understand this thing correctly,

which I am not at all sure that I do, it shows I would be giving 32% of my household income to the insurance industry.

[KittyWampus]

8. No subsidy? When I plugged another DU'ers info it said there was a subsidy. Maybe cause you have an

employer paying?

[DJ13]

10. My wife and I are screwed, even with a low income

We cant afford insurance, and her low paying job ($8.50 per hour) "offers" insurance (would cost 40% of her income to cover just herself), which we obviously declined when offered.

(Im disabled, and have Medicare.)

The calculator specifies "only if your employer doesnt offer insurance".

Ignoring that, I still calculated it out, and it would cost her nearly $700 per year (WITH the joke of a subsidy).

We have a low income clinic here, and she sees her doctor every 3 months for her minor diabetes at a cost of $37 per visit.

What does that $700 buy that she isnt already getting at a lower cost?

[KittyWampus]

13. In NY state where I live, there're state programs for low income people but I can't utilize it

cause my name is on my father's bank acccount (he's getting older) in case something happens and I also have a 401K.

California is in bad shape now :(

[liberalpragmatist]

14. You're probably exempt

... if insurance is more than 8% of your income and you don't have access to Medicaid, you're exempt from the mandate.

[DJ13]

16. I figured that, but......

This shows how poorly thought out this so called "reform" is when someone with my wife's low income isnt automatically covered.

[MercutioATC]

17. $9700+/year. Good thing I have insurance through my employer.

[glinda]

18. Nothing changed on mine or got worse. I would still pay 500-600/mo. And there is

nothing for couples or the fact that I cannot work due to needing surgery (yet do not qualify for handicapped) and live off my husband's retirement. What a pile o crap. I hope the calculator is way wrong or we is screwed even worse.

[cornermouse]

19. I checked.

They're saying 3x what I currently pay with a subsidy. This is not a good thing.

[Thickasabrick]

20. Under the Senate bill (which is what we are going to get) mine goes

up $2,000 per year. Great plan guys.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Single or family of four?

What if you're a couple?