I strongly suspect that neither of these will be available to any financially responsible adult, since my soundbite version of the healthcare bill was it was geared towards the poor (many other aid programs such as food stamps dont kick in until you deplete you assets to ridiculous levels like $2500 in TOTAL including your car).
my soundbite version of the healthcare bill was it was geared towards the poor
That doesn't make sense. Many of the ACA's biggest provisions (establishing exchanges, banning pre-existing condition limitations, allowing 26 year olds to stay on their parents' healthcare) are not at all limited to poor folks. They're primarily useful to middle class and up folks.
Exchanges and ban on pre-existing conditions don't kick in until 2014. That's why I left them out. But I agree, I should have been more precise.
Allowing 26-yr old "children" to stay on parents' healthcare only makes sense if the children are poor. Hence I counted it as geared towards poor. But I can see your point of view too.
1. Small business tax credit (35% of healthcare premium is given as a tax credit) http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=223666,00.html
2. Tax credit for individuals. http://www.healthcare.gov/foryou/healthy/index.html
I strongly suspect that neither of these will be available to any financially responsible adult, since my soundbite version of the healthcare bill was it was geared towards the poor (many other aid programs such as food stamps dont kick in until you deplete you assets to ridiculous levels like $2500 in TOTAL including your car).