[AU72]

Insurance carriers are being asked to program in 2 tiers of individual plans, send out policy options to subscribers and get it in by January 1.

As an IT consultant who worked on healthcare eligibility and premium billing that is impossible. It can't be coded in that time frame (6 weeks) much less tested (which would take another 6 weeks).

[andy58-in-nh]

Insurance carriers are being asked to program in 2 tiers of individual plans, send out policy options to subscribers and get it in by January 1. As an IT consultant who worked on healthcare eligibility and premium billing that is impossible. It can't be coded in that time frame (6 weeks) much less tested (which would take another 6 weeks).=

That's been my experience as well. And that doesn't include the time it would take to calculate and develop actuarial pricing matrices, which normally takes weeks.

[JediJones]

So what happens if we had delayed, defunded or repealed Obamacare entirely in October? You’re saying we would still have had to comply with all the insurance changes next year because companies wouldn’t have time to change anything? Good thing we didn’t repeal then. It would’ve been a disaster for the Republicans since all these mandatory Obamacare changes would have happened anyway after the repeal and they’d get the blame.