A catastrophic insurance plan will begin paying after your health insurance reaches its cap.
Moreover, there is widespread doubt that insurers -- who do not now sell stand-alone drug insurance -- will begin to do so.
Insurance adjusters will begin to assess the damage this week, but until they complete their reports, repairs will be stalled.
As Americans begin signing up this week to buy insurance, they will begin to test the legislation's tantalizing promise to make health financially viable.
If people start getting engaged with the issue, the insurance industry will begin to come up with policies, safe in the knowledge that the catastrophic costs will be covered by the state.
In the next six to eight weeks, Insurance Zebra will begin to open up to the rest of the U.S., though it will do so quietly as there will be other bugs to work out in each state, Dziabiak notes.
At the start of November, the open-enrollment period for plans on U.S. health-insurance exchanges will begin, and millions of Americans will face a similar struggle.
"This is meaningful auto insurance reform that will begin to untangle the decades of complicated and burdensome regulations, give consumers more choice, and encourage competition," said John K. Tiene, president of the Insurance Council of New Jersey.
Hundreds of L.A. County residents attended a town hall meeting at Cal State L.A. on Friday afternoon to learn about the state's new insurance exchange, which will begin enrolling people this fall.
And about a decade from now, this insurance company's policyholders will begin making a lot of claims.
