Nasty surprise may await people who thought they enrolled in Obamacare.
Unresolved technical problems with US President Barack Obama�™s health care website may take patients by surprise when they find they have no insurance despite a successful signup on the website.
After a month of intense fixes, HealthCare.gov seems to be working and citizen enrollment is accelerating, according to officials, the Huffington Post reported on Thursday.
But as the clock is ticking for a December 23 deadline, insurance companies are still receiving consumer information that is imprecise or incomplete, and sometimes there is no information at all.
Americans have until the late December deadline to choose and buy a health insurance plan that will be in place on January 1.
The result of such malfunctions by the registration website could be an untold amount of consumers remaining without any insurance despite having completed the enrollment process – yet another source of embarrassment in the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature health care reform law.
The Obama administration insists it will resolve all the glitches in time for everyone to register but does not disclose the extent of the problems. The officials have not said anything about possible victims of such glitches either.
“I doubt very seriously the insurance company or the government is going to say, ‘Oh, don’t worry, We’ll take care of it.’ I think that’s going to fall solely on the patient,” said Reid Blackwelder, a doctor in Kingsport, Tenn., who is president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. “I wouldn’t count on anybody else jumping in and bailing everybody out.”
Obama has hit an all-time low in approval ratings, thanks in large part to the troubled rollout of his signature Obamacare law, according to a new poll.
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Source: Press TV