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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Fri May 6, 2016, 06:48 PM May 2016

Administration Tightens ObamaCare Sign-Up Rules

Source: The Hill

By Peter Sullivan - 05/06/16 05:11 PM EDT

The Obama administration on Friday announced changes to ObamaCare sign-up rules that are intended to cut down on people gaming the system and address a complaint from insurance companies that they say is causing them to lose money.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is tightening the rules for enrolling in one of ObamaCare’s extra sign-up periods.

The extra periods allow people to sign up for insurance outside of the regular enrollment period if they move. The change announced Friday requires that people have coverage at some point in the preceding 60 days, which is intended to prevent people from moving for the sole purpose of becoming eligible to sign up for health insurance.

Insurers have complained that current rules are too lax, allowing people to game the system and only sign up for insurance when they need care, driving up costs for insurers and contributing to losses on the ObamaCare marketplaces.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/279062-administration-tightens-obamacare-sign-up-rules

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Administration Tightens ObamaCare Sign-Up Rules (Original Post) Purveyor May 2016 OP

The insurance industry is out of control if they see this as a problem Skink May 2016 #1

bingo we have a winner n/t. airplaneman May 2016 #4

Gotta protect those that wrote the rules? n/t tom_kelly May 2016 #2

CORRECT Skittles May 2016 #8

And who pay for all that hope and change. nt villager May 2016 #10

Those poor, downtrodden insurance companies. arcane1 May 2016 #3

Gaming the system = trying to get insurance they can afford despite the death panels. n/t jtuck004 May 2016 #5

During the run up to this becoming law christx30 May 2016 #6

complaint from insurance companies? elmac May 2016 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author IHateTheGOP May 2016 #9

Skink

(10,122 posts)

1. The insurance industry is out of control if they see this as a problem

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 06:52 PM

May 2016

airplaneman

(1,239 posts)

4. bingo we have a winner n/t.

Reply to Skink (Reply #1)

Fri May 6, 2016, 07:27 PM

May 2016

tom_kelly

(961 posts)

2. Gotta protect those that wrote the rules? n/t

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 06:53 PM

May 2016

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

8. CORRECT

Reply to tom_kelly (Reply #2)

Fri May 6, 2016, 11:51 PM

May 2016

villager

(26,001 posts)

10. And who pay for all that hope and change. nt

Reply to tom_kelly (Reply #2)

Sat May 7, 2016, 11:45 PM

May 2016

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

3. Those poor, downtrodden insurance companies.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 07:01 PM

May 2016

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

5. Gaming the system = trying to get insurance they can afford despite the death panels. n/t

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 07:34 PM

May 2016

christx30

(6,241 posts)

6. During the run up to this becoming law

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #5)

Fri May 6, 2016, 08:28 PM

May 2016

people that were angry over the individual mandate and the high costs/low service from the bronze were saying that they would pay the tax penalty, and not get insurance until they need it. They were trying to get from the system without putting into it.

elmac

(4,642 posts)

7. complaint from insurance companies?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 08:32 PM

May 2016

lets go to single payer and really give them something to complain about. ACA was DOA before it was even signed into law.

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