Footstep Three

Now Thursday morning, I realized that since my wife now had what was considered "affordable care" (insert eye roll here) we needed to change the information on our application and hope for some miracle that we still would qualify for some aid.  After a few moments I realized I could not do that on the site so I had to call the ACA people and get a little help.  So I sat down with a cup of coffee, a magazine and settled in for a long wait as I dialed the number....... answered in under one minute.....really awesome actually.  After...

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Footstep Two

The same day we applied for coverage from the site (Wednesday of this week) my wife came home with her new insurance package from her employer.   We casually looked it over to see if anything had changed.  Low and behold they were offering a very low priced bronze plan that seemed affordable even on our low income.  For a mere $93 every two weeks we could have coverage for our family of three, looking at this quickly we thought hmmm take home is about $875 every two weeks sooo would we be ok somewhere just south of $800 every paycheck?...

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Footstep One

This week (Wednesday morning) I took our first step toward getting health coverage that could actually serve us. My wife's employer does offer health insurance but our income level we could not afford it.  We had been watching the Affordable Care Act hoping that affordable healthcare would be a reality for the working poor like us. After waiting until hearing that the website was functional and was not crashing upon open we jumped in and created an application and to our joy got a tacit acceptance pending disclosure of the standard items needed...

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