# What is your ongoing opinion of the Affordable Care Act? (Title Edited) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 17, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-ongoing-opinion-of-the-affordable-care-act-title-edited/647561 "2013-01-17T23:21:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 560
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-ongoing-opinion-of-the-affordable-care-act-title-edited/647561/560 "2013-10-06T16:41:34Z")
Finally got to price check Obamacare, although I’m not eligible as my employer offers insurance. Currently, I pay $351.46 a month, or $4217.52 a year. I can get a ‘silver plan’ for $7530. I would qualify for a 12% subsidy of $936, bringing my annual price down to $6594, or $549 a month. This is about $200 dollars a month more that what I pay now. The ‘bronze plan’ is $4214 a year or $351 a month, exactly what I pay now until the subsidy is subtracted. The plan would then be $3709, or 309 a month. Seems like not that big a deal, right? But what is most interesting is that the price I pay now for insurance is not the whole cost of my coverage. My employer picks up the rest, like most employers do. The cost of my insurance is actually $17,124.82 a year. So where did all the money go? What happened to that other $13,000? I timed out on the gold an platinum plans. I really want to see what those prices are like. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-ongoing-opinion-of-the-affordable-care-act-title-edited/647561)._