Dylan Ratigan in an idiot. He claims that after he left his well-paying job at MSNBC he bought a catastrophic health insurance plan that cost him $170 a month. According to him, he cannot find a health care plan on the California exchange for less than $600 a month. So, I checked. I used their shop and compare tool and entered in Dylan’s data: 41 years old, living in San Diego County, and making too much money to qualify for any subsidies. Here are the cheapest plans available to Dylan Ratigan.
Bronze (Anthem Multi State Plan Bronze 60, EPO): $237/mo.
Silver (Health Net Silver 70, HMO): $277/mo.
Gold (Heath Net Gold 80, HMO) $313/mo
Platinum (Health Net Platinum, 90 HMO) $377/mo
In other words, even if he gets the top-of-the-line platinum plan, he’ll barely be paying more than half of what he said he’d be paying for the cheapest available plan.
“Well,” you say, “maybe he’s covering someone else on his plan?”
In that case, the Health Net Platinum 90 plan would cost him $525, and the Anthem Multi State Plan Bronze 60 plan would cost him $352.
So, he’s either a liar or a moron.
I’m putting my money on both.