I haven’t paid my Obamacare premium in months

So I enrolled with one payment. My wife got picked up by Medicaid a month later because of her disability. We spent about 3 weeks trying to get her dropped and reporting the “life change” as required by Obamacare. Hours had been spent on hold usually reaching an initial enrollment agent after a time on hold and then to be told each time we have to transfer you to the special department only to be transferred to that special department and to be hung up on before anyone answers. Finally after 3 weeks of this round and round we finally got transferred and not hung up upon. The agent entered the change and told us what my new premium would be. He told us to give the insurance company a few days to get the changes.


That will be two weeks ago Monday. As of yet the insurance company has not gotten the changes and only has the old premium for two people. It takes a minimum of 30 minutes to get hold of anyone at the insurance company. They always end up telling me to contact healthcare.gov. Once they find out it is an ACA policy. I call healthcare.gov get put on hold and after an hour or so someone comes on and tells me we have nothing to do with payments call the insurance company. Round and round we go where it will stop nobody knows.

I expect to get a cancellation notice and to be without insurance any day now.

Another fine example of our government in action....

DonDiego counsels malibber2 to trust The Obama; He's got your wife's and your back. If the personnel running the system are incompetent it certainly is not malliber2's fault.

The estimate DonDiego has read out of Georgia is that only half of those who signed up bothered to pay the first premium. The Obama will ensure they receive appropriate medical attention.

I disagree what I’d say this is what happens when you try and artificially include a “private” component just for the sake of calling it “private sector” where one is not needed or wanted.

An insurance company screwed up a customer's paperwork.

This has never happened before in human history.

Haw.

Who needs actual data when our resident posters can give us anecdotes...and "stuff they heard".

"WellPoint said the number of customers who paid their premiums by the deadline was 90%. For Aetna, it was in the "low-to-mid 80s range." Health Care Service Corp. said their number was at least 83%. "

Insurers say 80-90% of people have paid premiums


So whats the next BS talking point going to be? I'm on pins and needles!

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Georgia insurers received more than 220,000 applications for health coverage in the Affordable Care Act’s exchange as of the official federal deadline of March 31, state officials said Wednesday.

Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, though, said premiums have been received for only 107,581 of those policies, which cover 149,465 people.

“Many Georgians completed the application process by the deadline, but have yet to pay for the coverage,” Hudgens said in a statement Wednesday.

Cindy Zeldin of Georgians for a Healthy Future, a group that supports the ACA, . . . [said] “We’ll get a more full picture [of the ACA’s effect] in the coming months.”

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Ref: Georgia Health News

Ummmm...yeah...and your own article explains why....Georgia does not have all the payment data... They freely admit a conclusion can not be reached until that data is available. Don Diego didn't mind drawing a conclusion in his earlier post when he said,"The estimate DonDiego has read out of Georgia is that only half of those who signed up bothered to pay the first premium".

It would appear Don Diego did not bother to get his facts straight or read his own article.

From Don Diego's article:
"March 31 was the official deadline for individuals to get insurance coverage or face a financial penalty under the ACA. Yet because of the deluge of last-minute shoppers, federal officials relaxed the rules for those who reported having trouble with the exchange, and gave them into this week to sign up.

Given that extra time, there have presumably been more Georgians both signing up and paying for their premiums in April. They would not be included in the figures released Wednesday."

My guess would be that the tsunami of signers-up has overwhelmed the capacity of insurance company operations, who likely have not yet hired, and/or not yet trained additional humans to process new customers' information, payments, claims, etc. As previously stated, it isn't like they were ever fast on this anyway, pre ACA.