A few years into the program’s lifespan, the jury is still out, as far as many Georgia residents are concerned, on Obamacare. While a majority of those who live in the Peach State receive health insurance coverage through their employers, Georgia regularly shows up near the tops of lists that detail those who lack insurance. Like many other so-called “red” states, Georgia also did not expand its Medicaid program as the Affordable Care Act had originally suggested should be done. That leaves quite a few people in the area wondering just how and whether to take advantage of Obamacare Health Insurance in Warner Robins GA.
One option, of course, has been to ignore the program entirely. In the first year of its existence, this was a fairly popular choice locally, because the penalties for doing so were fairly small to begin with. Young, healthy people who lacked insurance, for example, often found that paying a $100 surcharge on their taxes was a far more attractive proposition than putting down many times that over the course of a year for coverage.
Those penalties have ramped up substantially since then, however, so that this option is typically much less attractive than it previously was. Even those on the lower end of the income scale can now count on paying several hundred dollars or more if they fail to maintain qualifying coverage, the kind of penalty that starts to have an impact.
That means that more people in the area are now looking into Obamacare Health Insurance in Warner Robins GA, instead of simply not thinking about it. Fortunately, there are some excellent resources available to those who do, so that learning about the program does not need to be difficult or time consuming.
As only a few insurers actually participate in the state’s exchange, coming to grips with what they have to offer will take many people only a few minutes. With ignoring the program being much less of an option than it previously was, this fact will benefit a great many in the coming months and years.
