Key coverage deadline is Dec. 23: Consumers have until Monday night to sign up for insurance that can take effect on Jan. 1, the date that lawmakers originally expected to see its benefits become widely adopted. The final deadline for 2014 enrollment is March 31.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Consumers have until Monday night to sign up for insurance that can take effect on Jan. 1, the date that lawmakers originally expected to see its benefits become widely adopted. The final deadline for 2014 enrollment is March 31.
Before the HealthCare.gov website's launch, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had projected that about seven million people would sign up through the Affordable Care Act's new insurance exchanges for private coverage in 2014 over the full enrollment period.
On Friday, Mr. Obama announced that more than one million Americans had signed up for health insurance through federal and state exchanges, almost tripling the enrollment totals as of the end of November but still well below initial estimates. He said tens of thousands of people were enrolling each day on HealthCare.gov.
Insurance industry officials said they were still experiencing problems with enrollee records, including "orphan" records in which the government says a person has signed up but the insurer has no information of its own about that person. The opposite problem occurs too: "ghosts" who the government believes have canceled their attempt to enroll but who remain on insurers' lists. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say they believe they have made vast improvements and reduced the problems to "close to zero."
Federal officials are still struggling to guarantee that all states will receive information about the hundreds of thousands of people who have been deemed eligible for Medicaid through HealthCare.gov. The Medicaid program already allows some coverage to become effective retroactively, which could minimize disruption after Jan. 1 for people who think they have signed up for coverage but do not yet have confirmation.
Consumers have until Monday night to sign up for insurance that can take effect on Jan. 1, the date that lawmakers originally expected to see its benefits become widely adopted. The final deadline for 2014 enrollment is March 31.
Before the HealthCare.gov website's launch, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had projected that about seven million people would sign up through the Affordable Care Act's new insurance exchanges for private coverage in 2014 over the full enrollment period.
On Friday, Mr. Obama announced that more than one million Americans had signed up for health insurance through federal and state exchanges, almost tripling the enrollment totals as of the end of November but still well below initial estimates. He said tens of thousands of people were enrolling each day on HealthCare.gov.
Insurance industry officials said they were still experiencing problems with enrollee records, including "orphan" records in which the government says a person has signed up but the insurer has no information of its own about that person. The opposite problem occurs too: "ghosts" who the government believes have canceled their attempt to enroll but who remain on insurers' lists. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say they believe they have made vast improvements and reduced the problems to "close to zero."
Federal officials are still struggling to guarantee that all states will receive information about the hundreds of thousands of people who have been deemed eligible for Medicaid through HealthCare.gov. The Medicaid program already allows some coverage to become effective retroactively, which could minimize disruption after Jan. 1 for people who think they have signed up for coverage but do not yet have confirmation.
They said 11 states have now begun receiving account information for those people this week.
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