HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries

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3. However, those of us who are in the 18K to 30K range

Are still shit out of luck. According to what is going on with the ACA, my household must come up with 11K a year just for the insurance payments. (Health premiums are high for anyone over the age of 55.) My household of two - basic insurance coverage here in California is 11K. Then there is the requirement
of $ 5K a piece deductions before insurer steps in, then co pays!

A friend of ours who makes slightly less than us, before the State Medicaid kicks in, he must spend out of pocket for his medical needs, a total of eight hundred dollars in a month . The problem with that is that for many people, there is no eight hundred dollars. And since a brief emergency room visit will total at least five hundred bucks, many people who are poor will put it off, until they are beyond help or have become a very expensive patient.