re: #128 goddamnedfrank

Yup. The plans are meant to provide tax credits/subsidies to those making up to 400% of the poverty level. That means a single person making up to $44,680 would be eligible for a credit/subsidy to bring their health coverage below the 12% threshold for health care costs.

There’s a series of tables indicating the permutations of costs/benefits.

Which is why when you hear the GOP claiming that premiums will be X or are skyrocketing to Y, you have to cut through their BS to realize that this is all before the credits/subsidies kick in and drop the amounts to levels that are not only more reasonable, but are providing coverage to those who until now have not been able to afford insurance at all.

It is providing health insurance to those who haven’t been able to afford it until now. Throw in the fact that the GOP is comparing apples to oranges, and that the plans will have to provide minimum amounts of preventative care, which some states have until now resisted requiring, you’re going to see higher costs in some areas as the plans now reset to these new requirements for higher levels of coverage. States that already required higher levels of care will see rates stabilize or even drop slightly.