(UPI) [The National Council on Aging’s] Straight Talk for Seniors says healthcare reform would:
-- Not cut any guaranteed, traditional Medicare benefits and would improve some benefits.
-- Close the prescription drug coverage "doughnut hole" and promoting coordinated care for people with chronic conditions.
-- Improve affordability of, and access to, long-term care at home.
-- Strengthen protections for low-income seniors…
-- Reduce Medicare spending growth while strengthening its financial future.
-- Reduce payments to Medicare Advantage plans, possibly causing some to cut extra benefits; increase premiums, or perhaps even drop out of the program; and
-- Ask high-income beneficiaries to pay higher Medicare premiums.
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I wish there was a "Straight talk for everyone else" who could make a similar list for the rest of us. I can't tell how this bill would affect me and I've been following the details as closely as I can for the last year.
We might fall into the subsidy range but, I'm not at all sure.
I don't think that there are any caps on premiums or Health Care expenses if your family makes more than 400% of poverty (or whatever their final income-level is) -- is that true?
Kaiser has a subsidy calculator.
http://healthreform.kff.org/SubsidyCalculator.aspx
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