{"id":70,"date":"2017-08-16T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-06-25T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:18:58","slug":"whats-going-to-happen-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/2017\/08\/whats-going-to-happen-to-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s going to happen to Obamacare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka, Obamacare, is still in-force. To avoid penalties, individuals and employers should continue to comply with the ACA rules in 2017. Non-compliance will result in fees. We will notify you as soon as concrete dates are announced regarding any upcoming\u00a0changes to the rules:<\/p>\n

5 takeaways from the new GOP health care plan, American Health Care Act (AHCA) released last week:<\/h2>\n
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  1. The requirement to buy health insurance goes away and tax penalties for individuals or employers are removed. However, if an individual has a lapse in coverage of more than 63 days, their premiums could be increased by 30%.<\/li>\n
  2. There are still tax credits for people to buy insurance. The new Plan provides an \u201cadvanceable\u201d tax credit, based on age and family size \u2013 People under 30 get $2,000 a year; over 60 year olds can claim $4,000.<\/li>\n
  3. Insurers still have to cover pre-existing conditions, but they will be able to charge more for people who are recently uninsured for more than 63 days.<\/li>\n
  4. Dependents up to age 26 can stay on their parents\u2019 plans.<\/li>\n
  5. Medicaid will eventually be reduced.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    DDI will continue to provide updates to keep you informed on changes. As always, please contact us if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka, Obamacare, is still in-force. To avoid penalties, individuals and employers should continue to comply with the ACA rules in 2017. Non-compliance will result in fees. We will notify you as soon as concrete dates are announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare-reform","tag-march-2017-newsletter"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa1tE9-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddibenefits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}