ACA application woes, anyone?
Dec 16th 2014, 4:11 pm
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I'm not sure you read the article. I do know that people are covered for things they do not use. Much was made over gynecology costs passed over to men. However this is asking people to buy a separate policy for pediatric dental insurance that they can't use because they are adults. It isn't even connected to a dental policy. It's connected to health care coverage.
It would be like when being sold a policy to cover a car, being told to buy coverage for a motorcycle that you don't own.
It would be like when being sold a policy to cover a car, being told to buy coverage for a motorcycle that you don't own.
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Dec 16th 2014, 4:12 pm
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I understand where you are coming from, but the third party insurance isn't a separate policy and you may well one day get to use it in the event you get in a collision with an uninsured driver
Dec 16th 2014, 4:17 pm
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Trying to make logical such a system makes no sense and ends up with you banging your head up against a wall.
More a tax than insurance. Look at it that way and hurts less.
More a tax than insurance. Look at it that way and hurts less.
Dec 16th 2014, 4:33 pm
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I'd agree with you if insurance costs were skyrocketing as the republicans warned that it would but instead health care inflation has been the lowest in 50 years with all of the dumb ACA regulations. Now there appears to be small amounts of unnecessary or even stupid coverage but no longer do insurance companies need high priced lawyers and accountants trying to put fine print into insurance policies, teams evaluating health records, and teams running risk analysis figures trying to determine who to cancel or put into high risk pools to increase the profits of the insurance company.
Dec 16th 2014, 5:34 pm
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I'd agree with you if insurance costs were skyrocketing as the republicans warned that it would but instead health care inflation has been the lowest in 50 years with all of the dumb ACA regulations. Now there appears to be small amounts of unnecessary or even stupid coverage but no longer do insurance companies need high priced lawyers and accountants trying to put fine print into insurance policies, teams evaluating health records, and teams running risk analysis figures trying to determine who to cancel or put into high risk pools to increase the profits of the insurance company.
I think you'd actually agree with me if you were the one having to buy the pediatric dental insurance for a mythical child. However I will agree to disagree.
Dec 16th 2014, 5:45 pm
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Dec 16th 2014, 6:07 pm
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Actually I'm retired but that is part of ACA but I would have been happy to pay for that when I was 57 when I tried to purchased health insurance through a private company but because my health records indicated that I had fatigue, I was put into a risk pool with a $10,000 deductible, 30% copay, no prescription drugs, and unlimited out of pocket expenses for $600 per month. Today an ACA policy with $6,200 maximum out of pocket expenses is also about $600 for someone aged 57 and I would be paying for conditions that wouldn't affect me whether it is included in the primary policy or a separate policy.
Dec 16th 2014, 6:25 pm
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Dec 16th 2014, 6:45 pm
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No, not really. I get frustrated with insurance at the best of times and this should have been taken care of. I Know the ACA is better than the system that was in place prior to the law being made. It doesn't make it wonderful. It's all a bit of a dogs dinner
Dec 16th 2014, 6:56 pm
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Additionally had we signed up on the state exchange she would need a pediatric dental insurance policy. Even adults have to have one.
Obamacare quirk makes childless people buy pediatric dental insurance - MarketWatch
Obamacare quirk makes childless people buy pediatric dental insurance - MarketWatch
http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.n...2014-policies/
You are not required to have pediatric dental coverage on your plan if you buy your coverage through Connect for Health Colorado. Some states are requiring the purchase of pediatric dental within the exchange, but Colorado is not. You can opt to purchase just a medical that does not have embedded pediatric dental. The exchange will remind you of the availability of pediatric dental coverage when you apply, but you are not required to purchase a plan.
Tip: If you enroll off-exchange, everyone on the application is over age 19, and you attest that you do not have pediatric dental coverage from another carrier, your carrier will enroll you in a $0 premium “adult pediatric” dental plan. The coverage on this plan is for children only, so adults enrolled on it will have no dental coverage. But they also will not have to pay premiums for pediatric dental coverage if they have no children on the plan (off-exchange applicants who do have children and do not have pediatric dental from another carrier will have to enroll in a medical plan that has embedded pediatric dental coverage, which includes a higher premium).
Dec 16th 2014, 7:08 pm
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Oh. Well if I'd ever gotten to sign up through the ACA Site i would have found that out
Dec 16th 2014, 8:13 pm
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Anyway, it seems that in CO you shouldn't have had to pay for pediatric dental coverage whether you bought either on or off the exchange.
Dec 16th 2014, 10:08 pm
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There are perhaps bigger things to piss and moan about. However it's a thread about the affordable care act sign up. Which for whatever reason we were unable to do on the government website.
Dec 16th 2014, 11:13 pm
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