The Barack Obama administration is sounding a bit more upbeat today on the state of the health insurance exchanges. At the same time, it's also clearly preparing a backup plan: allowing customers to buy policies directly from insurers.Now, the law never forbade direct purchases; it says you can buy a policy off the exchange, as long as it’s either grandfathered from 2010, or in compliance with the new requirements for minimum coverage. But you don’t want to do this if your income qualifies you for a subsidy, because subsidies are only available for policies purchased on the exchanges.Or they were only available. Now, the administration seems to be saying that it will allow people to qualify for subsidies for policies purchased direct from insurers:It’s hard to see, however, how this can be legal. The language of the statute is quite clear:
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Laws are for the little people
Obama Breaks the Health Law to Save It. [Link]
5 comments:
I was amazed to hear last night that the portion of the module to accept payment from individuals who have somehow managed to enroll hasn't even been WRITTEN yet! Payment must be received by mid-December for coverage to begin Jan. 1st. Not gonna happen. It's enough to make your head explode.
Ooops. I hadn't read the previous post.
Just so ya know, these Captcha thingies can't be read by bots, all right. Many of them can't be read by humans, either. And why every single time you post under the same ID?
It's to prevent comment spam.
And I don't get prompted on every comment with a captcha.
Huh. I use a Name/URL ID, but with no URL. Maybe that's why it dings me every time.
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