ACA/Obamacare: When the Affordable is Unaffordable

‘"Many of the non-poor formerly uninsured are estimated to be worse off," than without insurance, according to a September-dated working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research titled "The Price of Responsibility: The Impact Of Health Reform On Non-Poor Uninsured."

How so? The subsidies are not large enough to offset the cost of the insurance premiums and the fact that many previously uninsured will now have to pay part of the cost to see a doctor, the report explains. The authors reached that conclusion after reviewing data for the uninsured prior to Obamacare, including age, gender, earnings and location. Then, they married that information with health-care expenditures for the group and used it to make estimates of out-of-pocket costs before and after the law went into effect.

The group of people whom the authors highlight are the non-poor, or those ineligible for Medicaid but who maybe eligible for various subsidies for premiums or cost-sharing, depending on their income level. It turns out that the more someone earns the worse off they'll be.’ - Obamacare is actually not so affordable -- unless you're broke. MSN news, 10/01/2015

Link to the entire article appears below:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/money/obamacare-is-actually-not-so-affordable-unless-youre-broke/ar-AAf0EKn?li=AAa0dzB