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Individuals and the Affordable Care Act
The health care law helps improve care and lower costs
for healthy individuals and people with health conditions. When key
parts of the health care law take effect in 2014, there’ll be a new way
to get health insurance: the Health Insurance Marketplace. The Marketplace is designed to help you find health insurance that fits your budget, with less hassle.
Healthy Individuals and the Affordable Care Act
Even
if you’re healthy now, sooner or later there will come a time when you
will need health insurance. Not having health insurance when you need it
can result in large amounts of debt and bad credit ratings. Worrying
about health insurance and the cost of your care is the last thing you
want to do. The Affordable Care Act is expanding your options for health
insurance and making them more affordable.Find out how you can get a break on costs.
5 Things to Know for Healthy Individuals
- Under the health care law, insurance companies can no longer drop you when you get sick just because you made a mistake on your coverage application.
- Parents have new options to cover their children. If you have children under age 26, you can insure them if your policy allows for dependent coverage. The only exception is if you have an existing job-based plan, and your children can get their own job-based coverage.
- Job-based health plans and new individual plans are no longer allowed to deny or exclude coverage to any child under age 19 based on health conditions, including babies born with health problems.
- Starting in 2014, if your income is less than the equivalent of about $88,000 for a family of four today and your job doesn’t offer affordable coverage, you may get tax credits to help pay for insurance.
- Starting in 2014, if your employer doesn’t offer insurance, you will be able to buy insurance directly in the Health Insurance Marketplace that gives you power similar to what large businesses and members of Congress have to get better choices and lower prices.
Individuals with Health Conditions and the Affordable Care Act
If
you have a health condition, you know how important having health
insurance is and how expensive it can be. Worrying about where to get
coverage and the cost of your care is the last thing you want to do when
you are dealing with chronic illness. The health care law is expanding
your options for health insurance and making them more affordable.
7 Things to Know for Individuals with Health Conditions
For More Information
- Download and print this brochure: The Health Care Law & You (PDF: English 8.99 MB, Spanish 8.3 MB).
- Find out how the how the health care law benefits you.
- Share educational materials with others.
- See real stories from people like you about the benefits of the law.
- Get email updates on the Health Insurance Marketplace and more.
- Under the health care law, if you have been uninsured for at least six months and have a health condition, you may be able to get health insurance through the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan.
- If a new insurance plan doesn’t pay for services you believe were covered, you now have new, clear options to appeal the decision.
- Insurance companies can no longer drop you when you get sick just because you made a mistake on your coverage application.
- Starting in 2014, job-based and new individual plans won’t be able to exclude you from coverage or charge you a higher premium for a pre-existing condition, including a disability.
- Starting in 2014, if your income is less than the equivalent of about $88,000 for a family of four today, and your job doesn’t offer affordable coverage, you may get tax credits to help pay for insurance.
- If you have insurance and have problems with your plan or questions about your coverage, get help through the Consumer Assistance Program.
- If you have been rejected for insurance, learn more about your rights and find out how to appeal denied claims.
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