LTC8K6

Apr 4 2014, 11:35 AM

Pretty scary if true...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/04/breaking-hhs-started-obamacare-applications-for-americans-without-their-knowledge-or-permission/

http://www.shark-tank.com/2014/04/04/hhs-started-individual-obamacare-applications-prior-to-deadlineobtained-personal-info-from-states/

HHS “Started” Individual Obamacare Applications Prior To Deadline,Obtained Personal Info From States

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https://www.healthcare.gov/help/statetransfer/
What if my state application was transferred to the Marketplace?

If you applied for a state health program, or you made changes to your state program information, you may get a notice explaining that you or someone on your application doesn’t qualify for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in your state. Your notice will explain that your state application information was transferred to the Health Insurance Marketplace....

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What if I have a new transferred application along with other applications in the Marketplace?

If you have more than one application in your Marketplace account, you’ll want to use the newest one if it has the most recent information about your household’s income, address, and family size.

If income and family size haven’t changed since you applied for your state program, you can complete and submit your new transferred application:

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• Select “Find my existing application,” enter your Application ID number, then select “New – Transferred application.”
  
• If you work on this new transferred application but you don’t enroll, this application will be listed as an “In-progress” application or a “Submitted application” the next time you log in to HealthCare.gov.

If you’ve had changes since you applied for your state program, like a decrease in income or an increase in family size, you should start a new Marketplace application:
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What happens to my old application?
When you submit a transferred or in-progress application, or start a new one, it becomes your active Marketplace application. Any others become inactive.

kbp

Apr 5 2014, 08:14 AM

I assume that application thingy is legal.

Baldo

Apr 5 2014, 10:11 AM

WSJ - Peggy Noonan on Obama-care: Really a wonderful article

A Catastrophe Like No Other
The president tries to put a good face on ObamaCare.

Put aside the ...daily argument.

...The White House, on the other hand, seems to have understood what the bill would do, and lied in a way so specific it showed they knew exactly what to spin and how... That was historic, too. If you liked your doctor, your plan, your network, your coverage, your deductible you could not keep it.

...Your existing policy had to pass muster with the administration, which would fight to the death to ensure that 60-year-old women have pediatric dental coverage.

...Given a program whose complexity is so utter and defeating that it defies any normal human attempt at comprehension, two things will happen....support it...difficult to effectively oppose it...

http://tinyurl.com/l2oa9j7

Baldo

Apr 5 2014, 10:12 PM

From: Reason Magazine
Obamacare's Bogus Enrollment Claims
The program has failed in extending coverage to the uninsured.

....Obamacare promised to cut the ranks of the uninsured and offer those already covered a better deal while bending the cost curve. Such rosy predictions, however, are not panning out.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected in February that the ACA would slash the nation’s 48 million–strong uninsured population by 13 million. (This was scaled back from its previous projection of 19 million, as The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein notes.) But the ACA is not close to hitting even that more-modest target...snipped

......To recap: Obamacare has extended coverage to a far smaller portion of the uninsured than expected, caused millions of others to lose coverage, raised out-of-pocket costs for many middle-income consumers, diminished patient choice of doctors and hospitals and exposed Americans to future premium hikes.

Nor are things likely to get better next year. That’s because the mix of the new Obamacare sign-ups is so skewed toward the old and the sick that some experts are expecting premiums to double. This is why Americans are not popping the cork. Nor should the administration.

http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/04/obamacares-bogus-enrollment-claims

Looks like a winner in November!

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http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/04/obamacares-bogus-enrollment-claims/print
....Consider how its three main mechanisms for extending coverage have fared.

First off, the exchanges: The seven million enrollment figure that the administration is bandying about is misleading. The actual number of uninsured covered by the marketplace will be much smaller. For starters, if the current trend continues, 20 percent of the seven million will drop out without paying. Out of the remaining 5.6 million, only about half were likely previously uninsured. Why? Because reliable early surveys found that a whopping 65 to 90 percent of those flocking to the exchange already had insurance. Even assuming that uninsured people were waiting until the end to sign up, it is hard to see how that figure would exceed 50 percent, given that six out of 10 uninsured people surveyed by the Kaiser Family Foundation recently didn’t know about the March 31 deadline and after being told about it, half of them still planned to remain uninsured.

Second, Medicaid. The administration claims that the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid has allowed four million to 4.5 million uninsured people to gain coverage. But a substantial portion of that stems from regular Medicaid growth (unrelated to Obamacare). In January, Real Clear Politics’ Sean Trende estimated the number to be closer to 400,000, although he expected things to improve as the sign-up deadline approached. And last month, Avalere, a health advisory company, put the new enrollees due to Obamacare at 2.4 million to 3.5 million. (Some states are reporting higher rates of uninsured Medicaid enrollment, but it is unclear how representative or reliable they are or how many of these uninsured might have been covered even under the old eligibility criteria.)

Third, the provision that allows 26-year-olds to stay on their parents’ plans. The administration claims that this provision has extended coverage to three million young people. But that’s a false assumption, given that at least some portion of them are college students with university coverage or self-employed with insurance from the individual market. Forbes’ Avik Roy estimates that the real figure is closer to 890,000, meaning that the administration’s figure represents an over 200 percent exaggeration.

All of this adds up to less than seven million uninsured being covered by Obamacare, which means that the program fell 46 percent short of CBO’s 13 million mark....