OOIDA debuts new health insurance option 'Minimum Essential Coverage' quoting : landlinemag

OOIDA debuts new health insurance option 'Minimum Essential Coverage' The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is offering individuals and families a low-cost health care option that will keep them out of the penalty box come tax time. Welsh's company worked with OOIDA to create an insurance package for independent truckers and drivers who do not have the option of purchasing health insurance from an employer. OOIDA's Medical Benefits Group is now offering Minimum Essential Coverage plans for individuals and families. But everything I've seen still includes an individual mandate."Not having health insurance could cost you at tax time. "(Minimum Essential Coverage) is preventive care," Welsh said.




Also, there is a requirement that most Americans have health insurance or face a tax penalty. This was right before health insurance exchanges authorized under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, were opened nationwide in October 2013. The rate of U.S. adults without health insurance jumped in the first quarter of 2017, as the Trump administration worked to repeal Obamacare and replace it with its own health-care reform bill. The latest Gallup-Healthways poll found that 11.3 percent of U.S. adults didn't have health insurance in the first quarter of the year, compared to 10.9 percent of adults uninsured in the third and fourth quarters of 2016. Despite the increase Gallup found in its survey, the rate of adults without insurance remains well below a peak hit in the third quarter of 2013, when 18 percent of U.S. adults lacked health insurance, according to the researcher's data.

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