What the Health Care Bill does for you calculator

[KeepItReal]

From the Washington Post: a link that shows what the Health Care Bill means for you:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-health-bill-means-for-you/">Health Care Calculator

[Cleobulus]

1. Still trying to figure out what "total cost" means, that's very important. n/t

[RBitt]

3. oh great, yippeeeeee. what a load

so for my wife and I if we earn $15,000 a year as artists, we pay up to$ 600 a month for something that we have to buy?
When this trickles down to the street there will be hell to pay. This is a gift to the insurance industry,
bend over you are going to feel little pressure.

[Left coast liberal]

4. Check your math

The highest you would have to pay per year $2,400/12=$200 a month.

Just sayin'

[Political Heretic]

2. median income family of 4 in Oregon: between $4987 - 5,885 for premiums; $2,000 deductible (bronze)

$11,900 annual cap on out of pocket costs (according to the Post, its a 70/30 co-pay split, though bronze exchange plans had 60/40, but whatever).

So in a year where you have really bad medical expenses where your 30% out of pocket costs would reach that 11,900$ cap, you could be paying $19,785 or THIRTY TWO PERCENT of annual income on health care costs.

(Median income for Oregon family of four based on 2008 calculations: 61,945.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

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