White House mulling reopening of Obamacare enrollment: reports

[babylonsister]

White House mulling reopening of Obamacare enrollment: reports
By Marina Pitofsky - 03/21/20 08:56 PM EDT


Trump administration officials are considering opening an enrollment period for health care coverage under Obamacare amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spokesperson confirmed to Politico.

Multiple states that operate their own health insurance marketplaces have reopened enrollment, which would allow state residents without health insurance to purchase coverage during the outbreak. However, most states use the marketplace run by the federal government, according to Politico.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the possible move from the Trump administration.

A CMS spokesperson confirmed that people should check HealthCare.gov, the health care marketplace site that is run by the federal government, to determine whether they can purchase coverage due to a job loss or other impacts from recent measures that have been implemented by state and local governments to stem the spread of the virus.

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488840-white-house-mulling-reopening-of-obamacare-enrollment-report

[elleng]

1. 'We'll see.'

'mulling'

[SCantiGOP]

2. Wait till trump rolls out his perfect healthcare plan

Remember, the one he said he would have ready the day he was inaugurated?

[Grokenstein]

4. Too bad Hawaii is quarantining

...it's just further delaying Donny's investigative team that has a "bombshell revelation" for us about Obama's birth cert. Any day now!

As for the health care plan...can't Melanoma just copy President Obama's plan and let Donny claim it as his own? Would be 100% in "character" for both of them.

[procon]

3. Stupid, blundering lot of incompetents.

Trump has been more concerned with trashing Obamacare than bothering to understand how much it helped patients and eased the burden of uninsured patients on state financed.

Trump's going to be eating a big dish of crow if he's forced to restore something Obama created, especially since he's worked so hard to destroy insurance coverage for millions of people.

[trackfan]

5. It wasn't for CV, but Covered California opened a special enrollment period thru 4/30

So if you're in CA and not insured, sign up. The subsidies are bumped up here - you can make a decent income, and still qualify for something - and there is also a mandate with penalty.

[Under The Radar]

6. Gotta kill it in order to fix it