to double check.
Obamacare customers urged to double-check insurance status
Concerns over website back end after reports insurers are receiving calls from people who falsely believe they are enrolled
Dan Roberts in Washington and Jana Kasperkevic in New York
theguardian.com, Monday 2 December 2013 16.48 EST
The White House is urging insurance customers who enrolled through its online healthcare exchange to check whether they will actually receive coverage amid continuing uncertainty over the effectiveness of the system connecting the website to insurers....emphasis added
Although officials declared on Sunday that the consumer-facing front end of the federal website was now working effectively for the majority of customers, there have been separate concerns over the back end, which processes applications and passes on financial information to insurers selling the policies.
Speaking on Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney insisted that many of the underlying causes of the problem had been addressed by weekend software upgrades, but he revealed that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency behind the troubled website, had been forced to contact existing users to make sure they did not fall between the cracks.
“CMS is reaching out directly to consumers who have already selected a plan, to let them know to be in touch with their insurer to pay their first premium to ensure that coverage kicks in,” he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/obamacare-customers-double-check-insurance-status
If the White House is recommending that those who have successfully signed up for the ACA then there must be a potential problem.
While the ACA falls far short of what I was hoping for, I still hope that it will be successful. If thousands of people who signed up find that they are not covered after January I, 2014 it will only help the right in its quest to paint the ACA as a total failure.
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