Posted on 10/23/2013 8:28:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
According to the White House, that March 31 deadline comes from language in the Affordable Care Act that says if one has access to affordable coverage but chooses to be uninsured for three consecutive months in a calendar year, one would face a penalty. The administration says in the insurance market, when consumers sign up before the 15th of a given month, their coverage starts on the first day of the next month: Sign up by February 15 to get coverage starting March 1; sign up after that date (but before March 15), and you won't be covered until April 1 - one day over that three-month deadline.
The administration now says, however, that that is not the case and that they will issue new guidelines to make that clear.
"The individual mandate timing has not changed. The deadline for signing up for insurance is March 31. It was true this morning. It is true tonight," said Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department.
'If you sign up for insurance by the end of March, you will not face a penalty," said another HHS official. "As we have said before, the guidance that the administration will issue soon will reinforce this."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
The deadline is black and white, as per the way the law was written.
To have coverage effective on Mar 31st, the application must be submitted by Feb 15th.
It’s not a matter of “clarifying” anything. Unless someone wants to go in and rewrite the law Mr. Obama signed.
Lol. There’s no way this is real life. Did my alarm not go off or something?
Allow the Tea Party to offer the message of hope.
"This is the United States of America. We don't manage our affairs in three month increments." - Obama 7/11/2011
This is the United States of America. We manage our affairs by law, not diktat.
Thank You! Sometimes I start to think it’s me, that I am losing my mind. It’s hard to think down there at the Absolute Zero of Intelligence where the politicians do their thing.
I’m gonna go to the halloween party dressed as barack obama with a potato on my pecker.
A real dick tater.
Yeah but you’ll have all those flies on your face.
Being a politician has to suck LOL
The Dems are completely lawless and irrational. The Repubs are craven cowards.
We all know it.
Mr. Obama strikes me as a limp, microwaved shoestring leftover. I wouldn’t attach my hypothetical pecker to that at a party and expect to have any kind of good time, sir.
Obama is a great dick tater.
He has eyes everywhere. LOL
If you insist. I will upgrade him in my mind to a tater tot (again, microwaved for flaccidity.)
It’s still not a flattering costume for any pecker, in any occasion.
Many people are going to learn they should not have ‘done’ Christmas when their Jan 1 premium hikes become real over the next 9 weeks.
It could happen.
It was justa dick tater joke.
Maybe they will announce a special enrollment period.
I’m just overly defensive of the potato in general. It’s been such a happy thing in my life, I hate to see it brought down to the level of the mutant hybrid freakshow living in the White House. Please forgive.
The glitch that is stealing Christmas.
“White House moves to clarify Obamacare deadline”
......................moves to clarify Virtual Concentration Camp deadline.
The White House issues its own six week delay.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.