If You Can Stop Circling the Wagons Around the ACA, There is Someone I Would Like You To Meet

[Ms. Toad]

36. The information about the bronze plan has been available from the day plans were available.

"The county was told that the ACA’s so called “bronze plan” would allow its members to keep seeing their county doctors and getting the care they are used to receiving through the county. Opal and her husband were told the same thing. They were relieved. The bronze plan only cost them pennies a month out of pocket. The next cheapest plan would have cost them $100 a month---and people who live with chronic illness don’t have that much cash lying around."

They did not have to sign on the dotted line to find out basic information about the deductible. As for your clinic, anyone who has ever dealt with insurance - and I would hope at least a few individuals at a medical clinic have - should know that being an eligible provider is not the same thing as having 100% of the care paid for.

And - although it was not as well publicized - people who are eligible for subsidies (as this family was) are also eligible for cost sharing which means that her out of pocket expenses would also have been cut and capped. That additional subsidy is only available under the silver plan.

By all means, be angry - point out what still needs to be fixed. Just direct your anger at the Republican state administration which rejected Medicaid expansion.