Sebelius 'Urging' Insurers to Cover People Who Haven't Paid
Fearing that many people will think they have health insurance coverage when they do not, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is "urging" insurance companies to "give consumers additional time to pay their first month's premium and still have coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014." Insurance companies should cover people who haven't yet paid, in other words...New York's Cultural Elite Blindsided by Obamacare
If there is at least one benefit of ObamaCare it is watching those who supported nationalizing the purchase of mandated health insurance get their comeuppance. The New York Times reports that "many in New York’s professional and cultural elite" who supported Obama and ObamaCare, and carved themselves out a sweet little health insurance pool "to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market," are now out in the cold with the rest of us...House Report: Ill-Trained Obamacare Naviators Encouraging Fraud, Jeopardizing Private Info
The Obama administration decided that Obamacare Navigators, tasked with helping Americans enroll in a health insurance plan, would not undergo mandatory background checks. Now, in the ten weeks since the launch of Healthcare.gov, the ill-trained Navigators have put Americans' sensitive health and tax information at risk...WA ObamaCare Exchange Erroneously Debits Patient Bank Accounts
Maybe the Obama administration thought nothing could be worse than a web site that didn't work. But that's not necessarily true -- just ask those forced into ObamaCare exchanges in Washington state. Some report that their bank accounts are being wrongly debited -- some having money deducted from their accounts twice, others being billed before the date they had selected, creating significant cash flow problems, especially before Christmas...ObamaCare's Troubles Are Only Beginning
Be prepared for eligibility, payment and information protection debacles—and longer waits for care. The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them for another year, and that in any event these people will get better plans through ObamaCare exchanges. Whatever the truth of these assertions, those who expect better days ahead for the Affordable Care Act are in for a rude awakening. The shocks—economic and political—will get much worse next year and beyond...15,000 Obamacare Enrollments Disappeared; Payment Still an Issue
Healthcare.gov may now working better-ish, in that users aren't regularly hitting a wall or pulling up code salad, but the Obama administration still seems to have a low threshold for invoking the word "fixed." According to the Department of Health and Human Services, information that went in the front end, from people applying for health coverage, didn't necessarily make it to the companies who are supposed to provide that coverage...And these are a mere weekend's worth of reports from Friday through today. Socialized medicine isn't so merry...
