Posted on 12/24/2013 7:35:58 AM PST by george76
The left-leaning journalism organization ProPublica says the only Obamacare deadline that matters is the one few are talking about: the recently extended January 10 deadline by which so-called Obamacare enrollees must make their first premium payment to officially activate their insurance plan.
No payment, no health coverage, notes ProPublica writer Charles Ornstein.
Theres a huge caveat that isnt getting much public attention, says Ornstein. For coverage to take effect on Jan. 1, enrollees must pay their first months premium on time. Ornstein says this overlooked fact raises the prospect that actual enrollment will be far lower than the figures HHS [Health and Human Services] is releasing.
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California and New York, two of the biggest Obamacare enrollment states, have yet to produce payment data.
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Can you get retroactive “insurance”? I know there has been talk about just wait until you get sick and then sign up but not sure if you’re in an accident, for instance, if you can get back dated hospital coverage.
LOL spot on.
IF (as Odumbass said) over a million people have ‘enrolled’, and only 5-10% have PAID (we'll go with 5% since even that is probably an exaggerated lie)
That's 50,000 people.
They needed 7 million to be economically viable.
they have to take it from their childrens college fund first. That requires some paperwork.
The 90-95% non-payers will NOT have their insurance cancelled for nonpayment.
Then, the middle class non rat decided they couldn't afford to sign up and pay.
How much of a negative impact on Christmas spending will the real cost of Obamacare have?
There has been a great disturbance in the Force...
The Dark Jedi have a particular sensitivity to these phenomena. And they are quite agitated.
“Wait til the glitches with payment issues.”
My wife and I know a fair number of Doctors still in practice.
For the past few weeks, in private discussions, I have been asking if they are ready for the tsunami of Obama Care, which will start on 2 Jan 2014.
Most ask what I mean.
Then, I ask them if they are ready for their good patients thinking they are covered and may not be due their previous policies being cancelled?
How about the people, who think they are signed up for Obama Care and are not?
How about the previously uninsured showing up demanding care?
Many have gotten that far?
I though some 80-90% were medicare anyway that the taxpayers were paying for. We pay for their care and now we pay insurance so we are paying twice for the same thing.
I am sticking with my original prediction of a total of 66,666 total PAID enrollments although that might be a gross overestimate.
The longer the Regime delays in releasing the number of PAID enrollments, the lower you know it will be. Perhaps they will delay past the State Of The Union Address.
“The 90-95% non-payers will NOT have their insurance cancelled for nonpayment”
The 90-95% are medicaid and will not have to pay at all.
It will be. The Insurance dupes, er...companies, will be told to suck it up—or else!
Few will pay because they are expecting and waiting for Obama to send them the check in the mail.
Really though how much better is Boehner than Pelosi?
I don’t want to have to depend on any doctors... Not with the FUBAR health system due to Obama-Kare. I have embarked on my own health care avoidance program. I am doing lots of exercising and got on a very good vitamin program and am eating better. I am forced to do this (but liking it!) due to Obama-Sibelious-Democrats ruining this nations medical care provider system
People thought they were signing up for free healthcare. If they could pay for it, they would have done so without Obamacare. Forcing them up against the wall with fines and threats doesn’t work when the money isn’t there.
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