Dear Di,
I hear you. Here is a calculator I found to show how much people will have to pay for health insurance:
http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidyc...aspx?source=QL
Medicaid is going to be greatly expanded so that lots more people will get health care under that program.
For people who do not get medicaid, they will buy insurance with a gov subsidy/discount.
I wish we had a full government plan like the school lunch program. We got a hodge-podge instead because Congress had to do a bunch of work arounds in 2009/2010 to pass this.
Here is info from Consumer Reports a few days ago:
http://news.consumerreports.org/heal...two-years.html
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But even more important, you guessed right about premiums being subsidized. Come 2014, households with an income of less than 400 percent of the federal poverty level, which in 2012 works out to $44,680 for a single person and $92,200 for a family of four, will be eligible for a subsidy in the form of a refundable tax credit. That means you get it even if you don't owe federal income tax. The subsidies get larger the lower your income.
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M