Posted on 10/13/2015 1:58:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Acknowledging at least tacitly the difficulties of some health care consumers, the Obama administration plans major changes to HealthCare.gov this year to make it easier for shoppers to find health insurance plans that include their doctors and to predict their health care costs for the coming year.
With substantial premium increases coming in some states in 2016, administration officials are expecting that many consumers already in the Affordable Care Act’s networks will have to switch health plans and find new doctors as they scramble for cheaper alternatives. And millions more Americans could be receiving health insurance through health care marketplaces for the first time.
But insurers in many counties are offering such a dizzying array of health insurance plans with so many subtle differences that consumers have struggled to determine which plan is best for them.
“Normal consumers just cannot assess the dollar consequences of their decisions,” said Robert M. Krughoff, the president of the Center for the Study of Services, also known as Consumers’ Checkbook. “Is a $200 deductible with a $10,000 out-of-pocket limit better for my family than a $2,000 deductible and a $4,000 out-of-pocket limit?”
With the Affordable Care Act’s third open enrollment season starting Nov. 1, new features of HealthCare.gov will allow consumers to type in the names of their doctors, prescription drugs and preferred hospitals, and see which plans cover them, administration officials said.
The effort to ease the consumer experience is driven by the administration’s push to reach the 10.5 million people who Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of Health and Human Services, says are still uninsured but eligible for marketplace coverage. While 9.9 million people have received health insurance through the exchanges as of June 30, the law has far to go to reach the 21 million people
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So how do you gild a poop again?
FusterCluck 2.0
And just how much tax money will be flushed away this time on something that won’t work?
Have the 0bamaCare website costs reached a billion dollars yet?
“While 9.9 million people have received health insurance through the exchanges as of June 30, the law has far to go to reach the 21 million people.”
In other words, 10 million people lost health care because their plans were killed, then they were forced to join Obamacare. Don’t count the people who lost insurance and you have a net gain.
Nothing to see here. Moveon.org, moveon.
Sounds like they need to hire more IRS agents plus pay raises for them and the hard working administrators at the fine health care administration.
Excuse me, I have to take my meds.
Lipstick on a pig, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, etc. etc.
Here in NY, the State-exchange sanctioned “co-op” has just announced they are going out of business January 1. Health Republic lost $55 million last year, and $75 million this year, and even with a State-approved 20% fare increase, they expected to lose even more. So they and the State chose to pull the plug.
I was screwed when I was forced to sign up with them in 2014, and now I know I’m going to be screwed even more by the remaining Obamacare, crony-capitalist, fascist government insurance companies remaining in their so-called “marketplace.”
They’re trying to put Simonize on a turd!
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