New Wiggle Room For Obama Health Plan Sign-Ups

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says people will have another eight days this year to sign up for insurance under the health care law and still get coverage by Jan. 1

The extra wiggle room announced Friday is important because it could prevent people from having a break in coverage on account of the government's balky enrollment website. That's critical for those losing current individual policies that don't measure up under the law, and also for high-risk patients in a small federal insurance program that ends Jan. 1.

Under the change people will have until Dec. 23 to enroll and still be covered the first of year. Previously the enrollment deadline was Dec. 15.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-wiggle-room-obama-health-plan-sign-ups

[azurnoir]

1. Good deal and that should help people that have been having problems

with the website too

[OneCrazyDiamond]

2. I think the extention should align

with the number of days the site is sub-functional.

The issue is the Insurance companies.

[SoapBox]

3. Every little bit helps.