Subsidy Calculator - Premium Assistance for Coverage in Exchanges

This tool illustrates health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own in new health insurance exchanges (or “Marketplaces”) created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Beginning in October 2013, middle-income people under age 65, who are not eligible for coverage through their employer, Medicaid, or Medicare, can apply for tax credit subsidies available through state-based exchanges.

Things to Know About Health Insurance Today

Today begins the biggest expansion of health insurance since Medicare. According to the Congressional Budget Office (PDF), an estimated 7 million Americans will buy private health plans through the new online marketplaces known as insurance exchanges, which are now opening nationwide. That number is expected to more than triple in the years ahead.

 

It could be a bumpy launch, with technical problems and public confusion.

 

Here are 10 things you need to know about the insurance exchange program:

Animation Explains Changes Coming for Americans Under the Affordable Care Act

2014 is coming--are you ready for Obamacare? Join the YouToons as they walk through the basic changes in the way Americans will get health coverage and what it will cost starting in 2014, when major parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," go into effect.

Courtesy: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Dear seniors, your Medicare benefits aren't changing under the Affordable Care Act

Dear seniors, your Medicare benefits aren't changing under the Affordable Care Act. That's the message federal health officials are trying to get out to elderly consumers confused by overlapping enrollment periods for Medicare and so-called "Obamacare."

Medicare beneficiaries don't have to do anything differently. Medicare open enrollment starts Oct. 15 and closes Dec. 7, while enrollment for the new state exchanges for people 65 and under launches Oct. 1 and runs through March. 

Next month, roughly 50 million Medicare beneficiaries will get a handbook in the mail with a prominent Q&A that stresses Medicare benefits aren't changing.

AP Article:  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/health-overhaul-confuses-medicare-beneficiaries-141050243.html.