Women With Breast Cancer Delay Care When Faced With High Deductibles

By artappraiser on Sat, 05/05/2018 - 4:25am |

Was always one of the main flaws about individual "Obamacare": when you have a major (as in expensive) health problem, you end up having to come up with approx. $6K out of pocket per year before full coverage kicks in:

[....] She thought of her insurance policy, which carries a deductible of $2,600. She knew she would also have to spend as much as $5,700 on medical bills that would not be covered by an individual policy she bought under the Affordable Care Act. “I went back and forth for a couple of weeks,” Ms. Leonard recalled [....]

The article, however, is mostly about how many employer-provided plans have now caught a similar "bug", surprise, surprise.

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/health/breast-cancer-insurance-deductibles.html