Sign-Up Period Extended Again for Health Plan
Source: NY Times
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would provide more time for people to complete their applications for health insurance if they could show that they missed the deadline because of problems with the federal health care website.
The move was the latest in a series of deadline changes, exemptions and clarifications that have confused insurers and many Americans and opened the administration to increasing criticism from Republicans who have opposed the Affordable Care Act from the start and have repeatedly tried to overturn it.
It was not clear on Tuesday how many people would be affected, or how consumers would prove that website errors had prevented them from signing up by the deadline on Tuesday night.
The announcement itself was vague, saying only that if website problems had prevented any consumers from enrolling, they might qualify for what the government has called a special enrollment period. The administration did not say how long that would last. Nor did it define what website errors might be involved.
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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
President Obama, on his way to play golf on Tuesday in Hawaii, is desperate to increase insurance enrollment, Republicans say.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Republicans are desperate to stop or slow their coming downfall.
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grantcart
(53,061 posts)against the ACA but enrollments are exploding.
We are very rapidly approaching the 2 million mark, probably already passed it.
No one is counting Medicaid enrollments although the 4 million people who have been added onto Medicaid is not something to "pretend" or be ashamed of, if your a Democrat or a progressive, but then we not only know support government programs that help the poor and the middle class we know how to spell them.
http://obamacaresignups.net/
Six million people that didn't have access to health care now have it.
You can go back and report to your friends in the cave or wherever you are coming from that the bugs have been worked out of the system, the numbers are great and their is a landslide of people signing up on the ACA. Its not going away and in a year the country is going to see tens of millions getting affordable health care.
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Didn't grant people the ability to see a doctor.
Second, Medicaid enrollments shouldn't be included in the numbers because they don't count towards the FUNDING of the ACA. The enrollment numbers and mix of enrollees is what will keep the costs down. Having a 3:1 enrollment of people who don't fund the program isn't good news
And if you're going to call me out on the spelling of Medicaid, make sure you know the difference between their, they're and there as well as your and you're
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Only those that had money could see a doctor outside of an emergency room.
Moreover the medical loss ratio for those that did have insurance ran in excess of 30%:
Your subterfuge is well exposed and your rabid opposition to not the details of the ACA but the principle that everyone should have access to healthcare without regard to ability to pay.
Your reactionary mindset has no harbor outside of the US and as the ACA takes root and achieves critical mass it will lose acceptance here and you will be alone with those still habitating caves bemoaning 'socialized medicine'.
Omaha Steve
(99,687 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Blanket Statements
(556 posts)isn't opposition to the ACA. neither is pointing out the fact that the cost control mechanism is based on the number of people who sign up for actual health insurance, not Medicaid
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)the ER for all situations.
And, try to get regular chemo treatments or physical therapy sessions at the ER without insurance and see if that works out.
Blanket Statements
(556 posts)I'm talking about how the ACA is supposed to be funded and pointing out it didn't grant access to healthcare, it only provided a means to pay for it
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Forcing people to buy health insurance when they can't afford it was a mistake. Single payer was the way.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)There are still 3 more months of open season.
The subsidies for the plans are very generous. Millions of poor are getting coverage for free or less than $ 50 per month.
Single payer would not have passed the Senate but even if it had it would never have gotten the crucial 5th vote from Chief Justice Roberts.
Finally only in England where the health care system collapsed after the war has a system shifted to single payer at one time.
Canada took more than 20 years to transition from a limited hospital only coverage in a single province to the universal single payer it has today.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Great reply.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Blah...Blah...Blah.
Whatever they say is garbage.
Yay to the ACA!
truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)Obama has over ACA! Nice planning, everyone!
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)This RW head has given us the pleasure of coming here and letting us see it explode in slow motion.
Every new announcement of good news causes another cantankerous reaction.
Kind of like this: