Welcome to $6350 Or Fight!

I've been boring my friends and family with my observations on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the past couple of months, so I've decided to catalog my thoughts in a semi-permanent archive.

There's a lot of disinformation and mystery out there, so I've decided to try to make sense of the ACA through my own lens--as a historically healthy, self-employed person who nonetheless thinks health coverage is a pretty good idea.

This blog's title, "$6350 Or Fight!" refers to the new, legally-mandated out-of-pocket limit of $6350 for individuals. (Families get an even better deal, at $12700 for the entire family, regardless of size.) In my view, that $6350 limit is the single most important feature of the ACA... but more on that in a future post.

My current health insurance plan (which is not a "bare-bones" arrangement, by any means, but more on that in a future post) is among the millions which will be terminated in 2014 because of new ACA requirements. Join me as I figure out what to do about that!