Insurance Coverage Question regarding spouse

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Insurance Coverage Question regarding spouse
Is this a new thing brought on by the ACA where you are not allowed to have your spouse on your insurance if his/her company offers insurance?

I am confused on why this is the case and how they would monitor this.

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If I remember right, there is something along those lines, which is why a number of companies ARE dropping spousal coverage if they can in order to save money. Don't remember the specifics though.

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Is this a new thing brought on by the ACA where you are not allowed to have your spouse on your insurance if his/her company offers insurance?

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No

I would agree that this has been the trend for almost 15 years.

that has not happened where my husband or I work. I carry him on my insurance because it's better coverage and cheaper than the coverage he can get with his job.

my company required proof my wife did not have an insurance option from her employer before she was covered.

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my company required proof my wife did not have an insurance option from her employer before she was covered.

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Yeah, thats what it was.... Companies aren't required to cover spouses, but a lot are going under the "If your spouse has access to employer sponsored insurance, we aren't covering them"

My company started doing this. It's not mandated by ACA as a rule, but employers are having to do it as a cost cutting measure because it's such a grand fricking plan and "it is going to lower premiums by $2500."

Adults are more expensive to cover than children as a general rule. When my wife and I got married earlier this year, I could add her children to my plan, but not her.

Thanks a ton Barry, you lying big eared bitch.

Yeah, not new.

As fricked up as Obamacare is (because it was written by insurance companies), the insurance companies have been fricking us for many years now.