2017 Individual Open Enrollment

2017 Individual Open Enrollment

Everything you need to know ahead of tomorrow’s 2017 Individual Open Enrollment.  This Open Enrollment  marks the 4th anniversary of Obamacare a.ka. The Affordable Care Act.  As a helpful resource, the new NY and NJ rates with important deadlines are listed below.   33 States such as NJ use the healthcare.gov website or at https://medicalsolutionscorp.demo.hcinternal.net/individual/individual/homePage.  States such as NY and CT use their own Marketplace –  NYS of Health and AccessHealth CT.  Importantly,  individuals not expecting a subsidy may also apply Off-Exchange which in many case has  more options and Insurers.

2017 NY Individual Health Plans

These rates are for New York City unless otherwise indicated, and for a single person. For a family premium, multiply by 2.85, Husband/Wife
multiply by 2.0 and Parent/Children multiply by 1.70.  The non single deductibles are  out of pocket maximums are doubled. These are for standard plans, which two-thirds of customers enrolled in during 2016.

While deductibles for platinum, gold and silver plans have stayed the same, many bronze plan deductibles have increased 33 percent. That means consumers who purchase a bronze plan — presumably for its lower monthly premium — are paying more out of pocket for their medical costs before their insurance company kicks in a dime. A family of four that purchased a bronze plan will have an $8,000 deductible in 2017, up from $6,000 in 2015. For someone young and relatively healthy, that might be OK, but that person is vulnerable to a very large bill if he or she needs expensive medical care. It’s the platinum plans where New York State really shows itself to be a national outlier. Roughly 18 percent of New Yorkers chose a platinum plan in 2016, compared to 2 percent across the nation, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the 2017 rates:

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2017 NJ Individual Health Plans