Health Care Reform: Can we sign up yet? [View All]

[supernova]

I am someone with a preexisting condition (by anyone's definition) and I am looking for when we can actually sign up for the insurance pools that are supposed to operate from now until 2014.

So far, I'm not having much luck. Lots of info about what will happen and how it should look when it gets operating but I can't find anything that says when we can sign up.

I did find this at the HHS web site:

HHS has asked states to declare how they intend to participate in the program by April 30, 2010. Regardless of whether or how a state participates, all Americans who meet the eligibility criteria will have the opportunity to join a high risk pool.

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The law appropriates $5 billion of federal funds to support the new temporary high risk pool program. It will be available beginning on July 1, the start of many state fiscal years, until the program ends on January 1, 2014. The program is funded entirely by the federal government...

http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/initiative/hi_risk_pool_facts.html


I need to find what the various state reports are mentioned here or even if they have finished.

Anybody else have any better luck?

edit: link