The Campaign Spot Hey, Minor Detail: Almost Nobody’s Paid for Their New Insurance Yet

National Review ^ | Jim Geraghty

[Lmo56]

Another Looming Disaster: Few Exchange Signups Have Paid for Their Insurance So Far

We’ve been warning that Obamacare would be a train wreck for a long time. Now the boxcars full of dynamite reach the impact point.

Pardon the ALL CAPS, but this seems like a fairly huge point: ALMOST NO ONE HAS PAID FOR THEIR INSURANCE YET!

[Lmo56]

Now the boxcars full of dynamite reach the impact point.

And Obama's struck the match ...

[spokeshave]

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

[willywill]

ok, does anyone want to clear up a point for me because i’m starting come to come to a realization that this cannot work.
if you are the poorest of the poor, and your premium will be subsidized, does that mean you pay first and then get reimbursed? because if that is true, I really don’t see the everything free crowd coming up with the upfront payment.

[VerySadAmerican]

As I understand it the “subsidy” comes next year when you pay your taxes.

The people who thought this was going to be free are in for a rude awakening. And the people who thought it was free for others but they wouldn’t have to pay for it are waking up, too.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Well yeah there’s little minor detail

And then next up: when the few who actually will pay and be “covered” find out about that deductible

A Laff a Minute if it wasn’t so serious

[sheana]

Actually the subsidy can just go direct from the Feds to the insurance company. The insured will just pay their portion.

[Jimmy Valentine]

What gives me the heebie jeebies is that the entire system is unsecured descriptions like “a hackers dream” are disturbing in the extreme. Identity theft is rampant already what is coming with this messed up program

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Only Obamacare lovers would think you can have coverage from an insurance company without ever paying a premium!

[Venturer]

There are going to be a lot of people with no Insurance on Jan. 1st.

What are the hospitals going to do when you show up with no insurance?

[X-spurt]

Good crisis, is one thing, but as Sadamm Huesein would say, “we are about to begin the Mother of all crisis”.

The smarty-pants eggheads with no real world experience hanging around the WhiteyHut have no clue on the gravity of this situation or how to cure it.

We are about to hit real Whitewater rapids that could very well sink the demoncrats enmasse.

FDR’s professorial stupidity almost wrecked America and was only saved by Hitler and the Japs. Looks like nobama figured FDR’s ideas just needed a smarter activator.

[grania]

I thought the subsidy was going directly to the insurance company. Then the question would be...what if someone gets the subsidy paid but doesn't pay their share? Insured or not? Insurance company money or not?

What a mess.

[VerySadAmerican]

Surely the subsidies won’t be paid until the premium is.....oh, never mind.

So many questions. Absolutely no answers. Apparently none of these questions were ever asked when this bill was being written by only God knows who.

[RightGeek]

The only thing I found was this gibberish:

If your income falls between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level, you will receive a tax credit that can be applied immediately toward your health insurance premium.

From http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/1001/Obamacare-101-how-the-federal-subsidy-works-video