Re: Jobs.... Benefits...

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Currently, private health insurance can vary from fairly affordable to 
prohibitively expensive to unavailable at any price if you have any one 
of hundreds of pre-existing conditions that insurers will use to refuse 
to sell you insurance.  Starting in 2014, it will be illegal for 
insurers to refuse to sell you insurance because of pre-existing 
conditions, or to charge you higher rates because of them.  It will also 
ban insurers from dropping you if you actually use your insurance, which 
can happen now.  As a result, some people who have been paying low rates 
for coverage they would only get to use once before they're dropped will 
be paying more, but a lot of people who have been paying absurdly high 
rates or have been shut out altogether will see more reasonable costs.

Health insurance premiums are tax deductible as medical expenses, but 
only if they exceed 10% of your income, and then only the amount over 
10% is deductible.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 3/16/2013 9:49 PM, Stuart Burnfield wrote: