If someone currently fits the criteria for the health care mandate but later on ...

[NNN0LHI]

... gets a different job that provides health insurance for its employees or the person unionizes their current job and goes on to negotiate a contract with their employer to provide health insurance is that person no longer mandated to purchase health insurance?

Is that how this would work? Anyone know?

Thanks in advance if anyone knows the answer.

Don

[napi21]

1. I can't imagine any other way it could. I suspect it would also

apply to those who would get a subsidy. If your financial circumstances improve, they have to have a way of knowing that and stopping the subsidy.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Well this mandate is going to screw Walmart then

Walmart currently advises their employees to apply for Medicaid so they don't have to pay medical benefits for them and leaves it up to the taxpayers to pick up the tab for insuring their employees. Those employees are going to be encouraged to unionize now if they can't get Medicaid any more without paying something for it.

This completely destroys the Walmart model.

Don

[DesertFlower]

3. here in arizona you have to

make less than $860 a month to qualify for medicaid.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Is that the qualifying income for a single person or for a family?

[DesertFlower]

5. a single person.

and if they qualify they have to prove on a month to month basis that they're not making more. take for instance a hairdresser who's starting out. they might qualify for some months and not the next. some people have told me that it's so frustrating that they give up.

also our maximum payment for unemployment is $240 a week. that comes out to $1040 a month -- too much to qualify for medicaid.

when i moved here from new york 20 years ago my unemployment came from new york. i was getting $260 a week back then (which was the max). wonder what the max was here in arizona.

[subterranean]

6. I'm pretty certain that's how it would work.

I'm sure that if you get a job that provides insurance, you would be able to drop your individual plan and switch to the employer's plan. I don't have a link explicitly stating that, but I can't imagine why you'd be forced to keep your individual insurance if your employer offers it.