Obama administration relaxes rules of health-care law four days before deadline
The Obama administration on Thursday night significantly relaxed the rules of the federal health-care law for millions of consumers whose individual insurance policies have been canceled, saying they can buy bare-bones plans or entirely avoid a requirement that most Americans have health coverage.
The surprise announcement, days before the Dec. 23 deadline for people to choose plans that will begin Jan. 1, triggered an immediate backlash from the health insurance industry and raised fairness questions about a law intended to promote affordable and comprehensive coverage on a widespread basis.
"Relaxed the rules?" No... he changed standing law like the little fascist third-world banana republic politician he is.
Are you wondering if you personal data is secured?
High security risk found after HealthCare.gov launch
A top HealthCare.gov security officer told Congress there have been two, serious high-risk findings since the website’s launch, including one on Monday of this week, CBS News has learned.
Teresa Fryer, the chief information security officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), revealed the findings when she was interviewed Tuesday behind closed doors by House Oversight Committee officials. The security risks were not previously disclosed to members of Congress or the public. Obama administration officials have firmly insisted there’s no reason for any concern regarding the website’s security. …
Details are not being made public for security reasons but Fryer testified that one vulnerability in the system was discovered during testing last week related to an incident reported in November. She says that as a result, the government has shut down functionality in the vulnerable part of the system. Fryer said the other high-risk finding was discovered Monday.
Oh well... if it can happen to Target, it can happen to the Obama administration. Didn't he say the healthcare.gov site would be just like using Amazon, Priceline... er Target?
Total countrywide enrollment in ACA and Medicaid/CHIP up to December 2013... wait for it... 364,682.
Enrollment hoped for by March 2014... wait for it... 7 million.
And they "claim" they don't have a demographic breakdown of ages etc. Bull crap.
The administration is hoping everyone signs on after unwrapping their Christmas presents.
"Thanks Mom, now I know what to do with all this extra Christmas cash, buy healthcare!"
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
So lets just review what has hapened here... "sub-par" plans of millions get cancelled so that new Obama approved sub-par plans can replace them, with higher premiums and deductables. What's not to like?
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Would you please stop spamming the board with all these Negative Obamacare articles. Everything is going to be allright Tomarow. It will all be fixed in time for the next election anyway.
Thanks!
LOL :rofllol
/sarcasm
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Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
Yesterday the Obama administration suddenly moved to allow hundreds of thousands of people who’ve lost their insurance due to Obamacare to sign up for bare-bone “catastrophic” plans. It’s at least the 14th unilateral change to Obamacare that’s been made without consulting Congress.
“It shows that the Obamacare insurance products aren’t selling so, at the last minute, the administration is holding a fire sale on a failed launch,” says Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, a health-care advocacy group. “Just think how you must feel if you were one of the people who spent the last two months fighting their way through HealthCare.gov to buy a policy that will be thousands of dollars more expensive than this catastrophic insurance!”
Interesting to see the catastrophe plans being offered. Is Team Obama actually responding to the marketplace? And the right wing claim this is an imperial presidency.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
States running their own Obamacare insurance exchanges are reporting a significant surge in sign-ups just four days before the first major enrollment deadline.
The increase has ranged from 30 percent to 40 percent in the past few weeks, according to state officials who briefed reporters Wednesday. Monday is the last day to sign up for a plan that will guarantee health coverage effective Jan. 1.
California, which has one of the most successful programs, averaged 15,000 enrollments a day last week, up from an average 7,000 a day the week before, state officials said. In all of November, 80,000 Californians picked a plan; in the first week of December, 50,000 signed up.
My doodness, whatever are you going to do when your 8-week old talking-points don't work anymore? You're gonna need some new material from the Fact-Free, Source-Free echo-chamber.
Really not that big a deal (to consumer subjects), the misnamed ACA catastrophic plans are really full benefit plans very similar to Bronze plans with up to a $6350 deductible instead of $5000. Prices are not much different and they are not even widely offered by insurers. I could not see them on Connect Colorado anyway, probably since I'm over 30
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
States running their own Obamacare insurance exchanges are reporting a significant surge in sign-ups just four days before the first major enrollment deadline.
The increase has ranged from 30 percent to 40 percent in the past few weeks, according to state officials who briefed reporters Wednesday. Monday is the last day to sign up for a plan that will guarantee health coverage effective Jan. 1.
California, which has one of the most successful programs, averaged 15,000 enrollments a day last week, up from an average 7,000 a day the week before, state officials said. In all of November, 80,000 Californians picked a plan; in the first week of December, 50,000 signed up.
My doodness, whatever are you going to do when your 8-week old talking-points don't work anymore? You're gonna need some new material from the Fact-Free, Source-Free echo-chamber.
I just love when your quotes prove our point. 80,000 in California is nothing to be proud of. 95% of the people who lost their insurance won't have anything to start the new year with.
Hey California, Obama hates you!
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
States running their own Obamacare insurance exchanges are reporting a significant surge in sign-ups just four days before the first major enrollment deadline.
The increase has ranged from 30 percent to 40 percent in the past few weeks, according to state officials who briefed reporters Wednesday. Monday is the last day to sign up for a plan that will guarantee health coverage effective Jan. 1.
California, which has one of the most successful programs, averaged 15,000 enrollments a day last week, up from an average 7,000 a day the week before, state officials said. In all of November, 80,000 Californians picked a plan; in the first week of December, 50,000 signed up.
My doodness, whatever are you going to do when your 8-week old talking-points don't work anymore? You're gonna need some new material from the Fact-Free, Source-Free echo-chamber.
And what will you do as it keeps unravelling? Keep that head buried deep I'd imagine.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
