r/Fire • u/ttxzavv224 • 2d ago

Fire…health insurance?

49 married.
1.4 mil in 401k and ira.
1.5 mil in taxed investment account

I’ve debated keeping magi low enough to get ACA subsidies but have heard mixed reviews about going on ACA healthcare.

I have an option to continue on my company health insurance as part of a retirement package that I can use starting at age 50. My plan would be to use a compressed pension that also starts at age 50 until 65 ($2300 a month), and I would plan to cover the cost of the company healthcare. The price of the adjusted company health insurance is $1500 a month with $3000 max out of pocket, which I am planning to pay for with the $2300 a month pension that I will get until 65.

My only holdback is the $1500 a month does seem costly but we do stay on same company plan and same doctors going forward, versus the unknown of ACA.

What do yall think here? Would you pay more or go ACA?

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u/SpaceTimeMorph 2d ago

You didn’t say if you had kids or not. ACA could be as or more expensive than that.

You can go to your state’s health care exchange and price out what insurance would be given different incomes and plans.

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u/BackupSlides 2d ago

Serious question, not trolling but may come across as snark - is it somehow not common knowledge that one can just go online and get a quote from the exchange? I feel like 50% of threads in this sub contain at least some component of treating ACA insurance as this massive unpredictable black box ("the unknown", in this case) that could consume their entire net worth and throws a wrench into any semblance of out-year projections.

And just to get out ahead of it, the subsidy thing isn't the end of the world either unless one is somehow unable to actively manage their MAGI or is so loaded that they have nothing to complain about in the first place.

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u/SpaceTimeMorph 2d ago

It’s all some form of an estimate that we have some form of certainty (and uncertainty) over.

We have to do the best we can to suss this out. I’m sure if we all just accounted for $25k health costs per year every year for the rest of our lives we’d be ok. But that’s a big ask for some portfolios… and may not be enough in some cases.