Obamacare’s 1095-A Nightmare

National Review ^ | March 11, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

[grundle]

Somewhere along the way, the worker bees at Connect for Health Colorado dragooned us into an Obamacare exchange plan offered by Rocky Mountain Health without our knowledge or consent. (How else has the White House inflated Obamacare enrollment figures? Things that make you go “hmm.”)

Last month, we received an IRS 1095-A form, which, much to our shock and chagrin, indicated that we had paid Obamacare premiums every month during 2014. It took hours of time on the phone and Internet to receive an explanation from Connect for Health Colorado on how exactly this had happened. Here was the government’s response, word for incomprehensible word:

:We apologize for the delay in responding to your email. After checking your account we are showing you might have had coverage from October 2014 to June 2014. Please call the number below to speak with a Customer Service Representative if this information is incorrect."

“Might” have had coverage?

From “October 2014 to June 2014”?

The saga continues. We were finally able to un-enroll after being auto-enrolled in the Obamacare plan. Then, after being bounced around by the state-government health exchange to various voicemail dead ends and back, with hours of migraine-inducing on-hold music in between, we were told there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the 1095-A form — which shows payment of premiums we didn’t pay to an Obamacare plan we never enrolled in and didn’t want in the first place!

[ClearCase_guy]

Post-modern America — “Nothing is true; Everything is permitted [for the powerful]”

[Vermont Lt]

Grab the subsidy. What the hell....why not?

[spokeshave]

Your voting record here.....and here does not conform to policy....

You need to wait for an adjusted IRS 1095-A form before we can schedule you for any medicals....have a nice day.

[Steely Tom]

If a private corporation had screwed things up to this extent, consumers would have the right to seek redress through the courts. There are any number of "consumer protection" laws - many of them passed in the second half of the 1970s, when "screw the mean old corporations" was the big fad - that could be brought to bear as a response to such abusive, incompetent policies.

But since it's the Government, I guess you're S.O.L., consumers.

[Pietro]

From the article, "Feelin’ your pain, sister. Is D.C. listening?"

Of course not.

This was never about providing service it's always and only been about power.

Now they have the power and nothing can't take it away.

[BerniesFriend]

From “October 2014 to June 2014”?

I guess you had a flux capacitator or something..

[Mike Darancette]

If you went to the hospital using your private plan but showed up on the computer as Obamacare you could be rejected by your carrier for the visit and dropped.