Price Of Preexisting Conditions To Be A Year For The Insured

By Cornelius Nunev


Starting in 2014, everyone with insurance coverage through an employer will have to give $63 per year to cover the cost of getting insurance for people with preexisting conditions. It's a part of the Affordable Care Act, one of the many costs that law will impose.

Tax to pay for preexisting problems takes impact in 2014

People should be able to get insurance coverage if they are willing to pay premiums no matter what the situation is. Even people with preexisting medication problems should have the ability to get covered.

It turns out the federal government agreed, or at least a lot of former Democratic congressmen agreed and they passed the Affordable Care Act, mistakenly referred to as "Obamacare" though all the president did was sign it into law. As a result, insurance businesses cannot exclude people from coverage due to preexisting problems. As with any other government regulation of commerce, that means the cash has to come from somewhere.

The additional expenses on insurance businesses means the people left holding the check are those that already have insurance and the companies who purchase it, according to CBS. It doesn't kick in until 2014, but $25 billion has to be elevated between 2014 and 2017.

Yearly price of $63

Buried in the ACA's text is a fee that has to be imposed on every person that presently is insured, to pay for those with preexisting problems. The fee is going to be assessed on every business that provides insurance for its employees, much of which will likely be passed on to the roughly 190 million people who get insurance through their companies.

The fee will differ by the company; large firms will get the largest bills, smaller companies will get smaller bills from Uncle Sam. The fee is $63 per insured person, which according to Salon.com is assessed annually. Assuming all of it is passed on to employees, that's an extra $5.25 per month. Not exactly the main difference between the lifestyle of Croesus and starving in the street and taking payday loans just to pay the rent, but still a dent.

On the bright side, the fee declines every year after that, dropping from $63 per head in 2014 to $50 the next year, until it phases out completely in 2017.

Taking a little to give just a little

The ACA also states that $700 billion needs to be elevated over ten years on top of the $25 billion to cover preexisting condition costs. A number of people end up losing cash when they have to cover others to get health insurance, no matter how nice of an idea it is.

Many people are seeing their premiums increase slowly because of the health care law. Last year, only 10 percent of corporations with over 500 workers increased health insurance premiums. This year, another 12 percent did so, according to HR consultancy Mercer. People are going to be paying more next year for health insurance than this year too, according to the Washington Post.



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