Saturday, May 17, 2014

Federal health-care subsidies may be too high or too low for more than 1 million Americans

 

 "The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million Americans for their health plans in the new federal insurance marketplace and has been unable so far to fix the errors, according to internal documents and three people familiar with the situation.

 

Under White House pressure, federal health officials and the contractor, Serco, are this weekend beginning to step up efforts at resolving a variety of inconsistencies that have appeared in applications, including income discrepancies." [Washington Post]

 

 Ah.... but don't worry.... the guvmint is now REALLY going to fix something ..... fear not... they will get to fixing this just as soon as they take care of a MORE IMPORTANT problem..... immigrants who have not been able to sign up!  [clipper]

 

"Because the computer capability does not yet exist, the work will start by hand, according to two people familiar with the plans. It will focus at first not on income questions, but on another roughly 1 million cases in which people enrolled — or tried to enroll — in health plans and ran into questions about their citizenship status.  [emphasis added]

 

The work of sorting out inaccurate incomes — and inaccurate subsidies, as a result — will likely begin sometime this summer, two individuals familiar with the plans said. " 

[Washington Post]

 

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