Affordable Care Act's Senior Care Benefits

In general, if you're a senior citizen and you aren't using either Medicare or Medicare Advantage, you're in a fairly limited number of circumstances. In general you: • Don't qualify for Medicare (usually because you haven't lived in the US for five consecutive years before turning 65), • Already have insurance other than Medicare (usually in the form of retiree health benefits), or • You have no health coverage (almost always because you missed the opportunity to apply for Medicare during the first 7 months of the year.) Let's cover how the Affordable Care Act benefits each of these groups, working from the bottom up. If You Have No Health Coverage Obamacare will levy a tax penalty against you if you fail to acquire health insurance by the beginning of the next year. On one hand, that's not great -- but on the other hand, the penalty is generally smaller than the cost of acquiring health coverage, and on the other hand, having insurance is pretty darn important if you're 65 or more years old in the first place. (The penalty for not having insurance in 2015 is 2% of your yearly household income.) Fortunately, the process for obtaining healthcare coverage under the ACA is pretty easy. Every state has a new health insurance marked known as an 'exchange' that is run by either the state or the Federal government. Each exchange offers a variety of insurances tailored to that state's laws and to the local healthcare economy. So, in short, the primary benefit of Obamacare if you don't have health coverage is to make it easy for you to obtain insurance. As an added benefit, if you don't have health insurance because you can't afford it, you may qualify for a tax subsidy that will make a low-end health plan easy to afford! If You Have Health Insurance Already Seniors who already have health coverage that qualifies for Obamacare's restrictions (which, by now, 100% of all insurance plans should) benefit less directly from the ACA, but they do benefit. amjWpnmS
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