Learn about the essential health benefits that all private health insurance plans offered in the Health Insurance Marketplace® must cover.

Review these steps to decide whether to pick job-based health insurance or enroll in a Marketplace plan:

If you have a health plan through a job, you can use a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) to pay for health care costs, like deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, and some drugs. They can lower your taxes.

Learn about your options if you leave your job or lose your coverage. Visit Healthcare.gov to see the health care options at the Health Insurance Marketplace®.

Learn your options if you have or are offered job-based health insurance. 

After you mail an exemption application to the Health Insurance Marketplace®, we’ll review it and determine if you qualify

Most people must have qualifying health coverage or pay a fee for the months they don’t have insurance. But if you qualify for a health coverage exemption you don’t have to pay the fee

See all health coverage exemptions for the tax year. If you qualify for one of these exemptions, you don’t have to pay the fee for the months the exemption applies.

Find out if you qualify for lower costs on Marketplace health insurance coverage at HealthCare.gov.

Find out if you qualify for lower costs on Marketplace health insurance coverage at HealthCare.gov.

Find out if you qualify for lower costs on Marketplace health insurance coverage at HealthCare.gov.

Tell the Health Insurance Marketplace® about changes to your income, household, or plan.