Consumers who want to join a sharing ministry should check to make sure the sharing ministry plan is right for them the same as they would for Obamacare plans. Many sharing ministries either have a waiting period or do not cover pre-existing conditions, for example. Many (if not all) have specific criteria for things they will not cover. These include claims such as drug addiction treatment, sometimes even out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
Category: Medicare
Thursday Links
- A Bloody Waste: Why is the Red Cross turning down healthy blood that is being thrown away?
- Uvalde follow-up: While most people think that police have a duty to attempt to protect people from harm, the law has been clear—cops have no such duty.
- Coffee keeps you awake. Can it also keep you alive?
- Drug cartels in northern Mexico are kidnapping doctors to tend to gang members wounded in battle.
- Capretta on Medicare Part B: the government’s contribution to the SMI Trust fund will be $6.0 trillion over the period 2022 to 2031, reaching the equivalent of about 30 percent of all individual and corporate income tax receipts at the end of 75 years.
Is it OK for Apple and Walmart Associates to be on Medicaid?
The CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan recently blogged about walking into an Apple store in downtown Los Angeles and discovering the sales associate who assisted him was a client. L.A. Care is a purveyor of both Medicaid managed care plans and Obamacare plans sold on the Covered California health insurance marketplace. He was aghast when the sale associate said she was covered through Medi-Cal, the California Medicaid program.
The Family Glitch
Obamacare law says that health insurance at work is “affordable” if the employee has to pay no more than 9.5% of his wages for self-only coverage. If it is affordable, neither the worker nor his family is entitled to subsidized insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges. The Biden administration wants to change that rule administratively (without Congress) to deem health insurance “unaffordable” if the premium for the entire family is greater than 9.5% of wages.