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White House’s Secret Santa gift: Extra day to sign up for Obamacare
Washington Times ^ | 12/23/13 | Tom Howell Jr.

Posted on 12/23/2013 1:39:23 PM PST by Libloather

People hoping to gain health insurance through the new health care law by Jan. 1 now have an extra 24 hours to enroll, due to a quiet move by the Obama administration.

Government officials and contractors tweaked some software to make sure that anyone who enrolled by 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve still would still obtain coverage by the dawn of the new year, and insisted the deadline — at least on paper — is still today.

“We recognize that many have chosen to make their final decisions on today’s deadline and we are committed to making sure they can do so,” said Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. “Anticipating high demand and the fact that consumers may be enrolling from multiple time zones, we have taken steps to make sure that those who select a plan through tomorrow will get coverage for Jan 1.”

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KEYWORDS: gift; obamacare; santa; secret
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The agency said the concept is similar to voting on Election Day — if you’re online when the polls close, you still get to vote.

The ACA is officially dead.


1 posted on 12/23/2013 1:39:23 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Calvinball.


2 posted on 12/23/2013 1:41:42 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Libloather

They can give any reprieve they want, I’ll not go near that site nor sign up for all the gold in China.

KMA obumnuts!!


3 posted on 12/23/2013 1:41:50 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Libloather

Be still my pitter pattering little heart.


4 posted on 12/23/2013 1:42:17 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Libloather

I think the principle should apply to the tax filing deadline as well. Let’s move that back a a week or two as well. You know, in case people don’t get to the post office in time or else the online filing system gets bogged down.


5 posted on 12/23/2013 1:42:22 PM PST by randita
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To: Libloather
It'll soon be New Year's Eve...Then Easter, the 4th of July

They have to get by the elections before they reveal that this is an absolute failure....because whitey wouldn't come up with the loot.

So the next plan will be to change it and take it right out of your paycheck...just like Medicare...

6 posted on 12/23/2013 1:42:34 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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“Anticipating high demand and the fact that consumers may be enrolling from multiple time zones,

Last minute enrolling from say Hawaii???


7 posted on 12/23/2013 1:44:17 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Libloather
"The law is what I say it is."
8 posted on 12/23/2013 1:45:01 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Libloather
NO.
9 posted on 12/23/2013 1:45:59 PM PST by tomkat (8^)
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To: Libloather

Not sure if anyone is listening to Sean Hannity’s radio fill-in, but the current caller “Mike” who want’s to replace everyone’s health insurance with Obamacare “for our own good” is a complete moron.


10 posted on 12/23/2013 1:46:12 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Libloather

And should the numbers still be flagging, because only total losers have nothing better to do on Christmas Eve than sign up, there’s always the next extension that he’ll announce on New Year’s Eve.

What a maroon.


11 posted on 12/23/2013 1:49:13 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: SpaceBar

Have you ever lived with a democrat? It is chaos 100% of the time.


12 posted on 12/23/2013 1:50:11 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Libloather
Obama bin lying....check out the stats from Alexa:


13 posted on 12/23/2013 1:53:40 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Libloather
The ACA is officially dead.


14 posted on 12/23/2013 1:55:11 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Libloather


15 posted on 12/23/2013 1:59:00 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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Obama can do this for one and only one reason. That is that the Republicans will not stand together and refuse to fund Obamacare at all. The RINOs and their paymasters the insurance companies are still trying to make profits, or at least cut their losses.

If it weren't for the turncoats, US citizens would've supported the "shutdown" of the federal government, turned even more against Obama because of his infantile cuts.

JMHO

16 posted on 12/23/2013 1:59:58 PM PST by grania
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Obama himself has set the precident that the ACA is just whatever the President says it is. So the next POTUS can just cancel it, or at least effectively cancel it.

Give everyone a waiver, and set the government offset to zero.


17 posted on 12/23/2013 2:01:08 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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So the next POTUS can just cancel it, or at least effectively cancel it.

^5

18 posted on 12/23/2013 2:05:34 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Libloather

Won’t matter, no one is signing up.


19 posted on 12/23/2013 3:05:05 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Libloather

Please Sir, may I have some more?


20 posted on 12/23/2013 4:07:42 PM PST by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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