Since I left my full-time job in April, my wife and I get our health insurance from the ACA healthcare exchange (called Covered CA in California). We have an HSA-eligible Bronze PPO plan from Blue Shield of California. We pay the unsubsidized premium [...]
Where To Get Vaccine Shots For International Travel
Last month we saw a good airfare deal we couldn't refuse. A round-trip ticket from the west coast to Kenya was under $900. We are going to climb Mount Kenya in January. We are also thinking of going to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and possibly Cambodia [...]
Shop for Healthcare Cost When You Have High Deductible Insurance
More and more people are on high deductible health insurance these days. Most people on high deductible insurance don't meet their annual deductible when the deductible is $3,000, $5,000, or sometimes over $10,000 a year. In such case you are [...]
Plan It and Update It
Note from the editor: This is a guest post from long-time reader KD. KD contributed Looking At the Big Financial Picture back in 2012. I also interviewed KD in Lifestyle Design: Choose Where You Live. Now six years later, KD shows us how to use a [...]
Self-Employed Health Insurance: COBRA, ACA, Health Sharing Ministry
After I gave my resignation, the first order of business was to buy health insurance. My former employer's health insurance covers me to the end of the month. I need insurance starting on the first of the following month. Basically I have four [...]
2017 2018 2019 Federal Poverty Levels (FPL) For Affordable Care Act
People who don't have health insurance from work can buy health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The premiums are made affordable by a premium subsidy in the form of a tax credit calculated off your income relative to [...]
Late Enrollment Penalty On Health Insurance
A new health care bill American Health Care Act passed in the House. Just like the new tax plan outline, who knows whether it will pass in the Senate or what will change. From the previous post Health Insurance As A Tax we came to know that health [...]
ACA Self-Employed Health Insurance In H&R Block Software
Last time when I looked at how different tax software handled the circular calculation of the ACA tax credit and theself-employed health insurance tax deduction, H&R Block software failed at the task. See Tax Software Bake-Off: Self-Employed [...]
Health Insurance As A Tax
As required by the Affordable Care Act, since a few years ago, employers started reporting to the employees the total cost of their group health care coverage. As an employee, you are still not taxed on this value. The employer's share of the premium [...]
