I had the hardest time convincing Blue Cross to cancel the first policy I selected. They told me that as long as I didn’t pay the premium, the policy would be canceled. Now I wonder how many of these are duplicates:
WASHINGTON — Most of the people choosing health plans under the Affordable Care Act — about 80 percent — are paying their initial premiums as required for coverage to take effect, several large insurers said Tuesday on the eve of a House hearing about the law.
But the health insurance industry said the total of eight million people who signed up included “many duplicate enrollments” for consumers who tried to enroll more than once because of problems on the website.
“Insurers have many duplicate enrollments in their system for which they never received any payment,” said Mark Pratt, a senior vice president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group.
“It may be a matter of months,” Mr. Pratt added, “before insurers know how many people activated their coverage by paying their share of premiums.”
At some point in the not too distant future passing the ACA will be seen as Obama’s biggest failure while in office. Had he pushed for passage of Medicare for all from the very beginning of his administration it would have been a law by now. Instead he walked away and left it up to Congress to write a health care bill. He only reentered the fight when it looked like nothing was going to be passed. But that has been Obama’s MO since day one. His first Executive Order was a directive to close Gitmo. That prison remains open right? Obama is a fraud and quite possibly a criminal. Drones.