As a result of these contacts, I reached out to Michele Thornton, health insurance consultant at Thornton Powell Insurance Financial Services in Oak Forest, and a regular contributor of health insurance expertise to this column. In this time of great health insurance uncertainty, Thornton's best advice is this: "Stay on top of the decision-making process. I recently heard from a middle-income family with three minor children who, for the first time ever, opted to go without health insurance due to cost. Previously, people could take advantage of special enrollment whether or not they carried insurance prior to the qualifying event. • The ACA allows special enrollment periods for certain qualifying life events, such as marriage, having a child or losing employer coverage.
Remember how you were stuck in your job for the health insurance before Obamacare? Ready to go back?
Now she worries what would happen under the Republican plan if she left her job at a home health company that provides insurance. There's so much that's going to be lost under Trumpcare—lives and health for millions, to be sure. But for people whose health isn't on the line, there are less dramatic consequences: Trumpcare is threatening to return us to the days when health insurance companies were in charge, and people were stuck in jobs (or marriages) they hated because they had to keep their care. She has gotten insurance on the federal marketplace a couple of times in the last few years. Across the nation, Americans in their 50s and early 60s, still too young to qualify for Medicare, could be hit hard by soaring insurance costs, especially people now eligible for generous subsidies through the existing federal health care law.collected by :Lucy William
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