Posted on 04/04/2014 4:17:39 PM PDT by SJackson
Here's more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard health care coverage any time of year. Not anymore.
Many people who didn't sign up during the government's open enrollment period that ended Monday will soon find it difficult or impossible to get insured this year, even if they go directly to a private company and money is no object. For some it's already too late.
With limited exceptions, insurers are refusing to sell to individuals after the enrollment period for HealthCare.gov and the state marketplaces. They will lock out the young and healthy as well as the sick or injured. Those who want to switch plans also are affected. The next wide-open chance to enroll comes in November for coverage in 2015.
It's a little-noted consequence of President Obama's health care overhaul, which requires nearly all Americans to be insured or pay a fine and requires insurers to accept people with health problems.
"I have people that can buy insurance, but the companies shut them down. They won't take the applications," insurance broker Steve Bobiak of Frackville, Pa., said. "We're a free country. You should be able to buy anything anytime you want."
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Anyone still believe Obamacare was about increasing health insurance coverage and not about increasing government control over private lives?
I’m scheduled to go onto my employer’s health plan come November anyway, and I’d rather wait for that than take my chances with healthcare.gov, which so far sounds like nothing more than another government screwup.
I think then we’ll just start seeing more calls for single-payer healthcare. So far, that’s the most I’ve been seeing when people criticize Obamacare (absurdly calling it a capitalistic solution).
They would still be eligible for employer insurance through Cobra if they can afford it. Being terminated from employment would be a qualifying event, so they could sign up via a government run exchange..
Well that’s because people only need to buy insurance during ‘oepn enrollment period’ for 3 months out of each year.
What the workers do for the remaining 9 months, i dont know
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