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Obama's Fixed Website Is So Totally Fixed He's Telling Insurers to "Estimate" People's Subsidies For ThemThe "fixed" website is fixed in the sense it lets you enter all of your personal information into a massive sucking black hole of identity theft. That it permits you to do. Well, it permits you to do that sometimes. Other times it makes you wait for the privilege of entering your most personal and confidential data into a Hacker's Paradise. After a glowing news conference yesterday citing “night and day” progress on HealthCare.gov, I decided to log in this morning and take the Web site for a test drive, as I’m sure many others are doing. Early reports had been promising. What I found was hardly encouraging — long delays loading pages, an endless circle of tasks (some already completed) and ultimately an error message. How about shopping for insurance policies? Nah bro, it won't let you do that. Comparison shopping between different products on a website is the sort of Star Wars like technology we can only yet dream of. So I decided to try the site again this afternoon. This time, I didn’t see the “Please Wait” flags that bogged me down yesterday, but I had a more fundamental problem. When I got to the step of comparing health plans, I couldn’t see any. So far so good! Healthcare.gov has three big steps: Apply. Shop. Buy. So far you can't do either of the first two. But I have high hopes for the third. Well not really, because the code for buying a policy hasn't even been written yet. Oh well! But at least it will calculate your subsidy for you. Nah bro, it can't do that either. So Obama has pulled out his Magic Legislation-Rewriting Pen again and willed that the Insurance Companies should illegally "estimate" your subsidy for you. President Barack Obama's administration has found a short-term fix to pay insurance companies for plans selected on HealthCare.gov, the not-yet-complete government website used to shop for insurance required under Obama's healthcare program. What does "true up" mean? Who pays the difference? Apparently not the consumer -- it will be the government and insurers reconciling the estimate to the actual subsidy. So apparently the government will pay the difference between estimated and actual subsidy? And don't insurance companies have an incentive to estimate upwards, suggesting a bigger subsidy than the real one, to sign people up? How much will this fresh incompetence cost us? The fix puts an additional "burden" on insurance companies, already taxed by having to double-check faulty enrollment data from the HealthCare.gov system. And here's the kicker: Insurers have to build this system to estimate subsidies in... like a week.
Actually, that's not the kicker. I lied. I do that that a lot. Lying is my cardio. The real kicker is this: Insurers may begin exiting the exchanges entirely if they can't get paid for policies they're supposed to be covering. The article mentions that some big insurers may have a pile of money to "cushion" them during a period of paying out claims and yet not receiving any premium checks, but smaller companies don't. "They cannot survive if they don't get paid. And even the larger carriers, it can only go on for so long," Lucia said. "The last thing we need is for a carrier, especially a large carrier, to walk away from this." Thanks to John Ekdahl. | Recent Comments
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