With the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) front-and-center in the news these days, people naturally want to know how much it will cost them when health insurance becomes mandatory on January 1, 2014. The health insurance exchanges (or “marketplaces”) are slated to open on October 1, 2013 for plans with an effective date of January 1, 2014. Until exact figures are released, the Kaiser Family Foundation has a great tool
Four Months and Counting to the Insurance Exchanges
Is anybody else as focused on October 1 as we are here at Virginia Medical Plans? Tomorrow, June 1, will start the four-month countdown to the opening of the health insurance exchanges (also known as the marketplace) created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Staying abreast of the latest news about ACA is almost like watching a race — a months-long race to a finish line that presents us with
