Clear your cookies and start your search engines! Today we review the basics of Obamacare for fun and, for someone, a few pennies! Please take a moment and respond to the poll. And if you're up for some fun and ready to test your knowledge, the questions below the fold are for you! They're mainly for information purposes, but to make it fun for those who have a DK screen name, here's some added excitement: If you post the correct answers in comments, you might receive a teeny-tiny cash prize.
Here's the particulars you are agreeing to if you post an answer: Every answer can be found or inferred in one of the three posts linked in the triple-stacked images above. You must be good-natured. Some questions/answers will seem vague, tricky, even opinion based; because they are! Remember, this is just for fun. So, trolls beware, there's no need for anyone here to feel bad if they get something wrong or make a silly mistake, and don't hold a grudge against me, even if I make a mistake when the key is posted.
I have picked a secret number and the person who corresponds to it with the correct response will receive a $5 cash prize via whatever Paypal account they tell me to send it to. Yes, that is intentionally vague, it's just a wildcard for fun, don't let it affect your answers or research for the answers.
Lastly: don't pay too much attention to anyone else but me, at least as far as final results. I'll update the answers in this post about two hours from now and notify any winner in comments.
1. Obamacare is organized and overseen by what agency?
a. Health and Human Services
b. Federal Insurance Commission
c. Securities and exchange commission
d. All of the above
2. The ideal place to learn about and enroll in Obamacare is where?
a. HHS website
b. State Healthcare Exchanges
c. Insurance company website
d. All of the above
3. Policies offered under Obamacare will come in several basic increasing levels of coverage usually designated by what colors in what order?
a. Platinum, Bronze, Silver, Gold
b. Bronze, Silver, Platinum, Gold
c. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum
d. Gandalf the White
4. The annual cap paid for healthcare services for all policies covered under Obamacare is best describe as?
a. The maximum an insurance company has to pay in a year less premiums
b. The maximum the insured has to pay in a year including premiums
c. The maximum the insured has to pay in a year not including premiums
d. The maximum the insurance company has to pay including premiums
5. Using the Kaiser Foundation Subsidy calculator, the approximate subsidized premium an insured 50 year-old non smoker making just over the $12,000 a year poverty rate will pay each month out of their pocket is about?
a. About $100/month
b. About $75/month
c. About $50/month
d. About $25/month
6. The easiest way, imo, to insure Obamacare succeeds is by?
a. Personally working to get as many eligible people enrolled as possible
b. Personally pushing back against right-wing misinformation
c. Personally working to get more democrats elected
d. All of the above
7. The exchanges go live and coverage can be bought for eligible people starting:
a. Today
b. Jan 1, 2014
c. Oct 1, 2013
d. March 1, 2014
8. Obamacare coverage kicks in beginning?
a. Now
b. Jan 1, 2014
c. Oct 1, 2014
d. March 1, 2014
9. The individual mandate begins in what year and will cost those affected how much?
a. 2013/$85
b. 2014/$95
c. 2013/$95
d. 2014/$85
10. The out of pocket limit, i.e., the annual cap mentioned above in question #4, for those covered under Obamacare begins in what year and month?
a. Jan/2014
b. March/2014
c. Jan/2015
d. March/2015