Healthcare.gov extended their enrollment period by four days for January 1st coverage. That extension ends tonight at 11:59 Pacific Time. Time to get enrolled.
There are three damn good reasons to enroll.
1) You need coverage for yourself and your family
2) Most plausible Replace plans will rely on some type of continual coverage mandate so it is time to build up a history.
3) Let’s create facts on the ground for better attacks ads in 2018 and 2020 when #2 is failure.
So go enroll today.
TaMara (HFG)
If no one says it enough, thank you for all you do on this.
RSA
Thanks from me, Richard. I’m thinking about a new job, and I’m also thinking enrolling would be good, just in case.
SP
Appropriate that you refer to the Republican plans as #2.
Another Scott
Also, too, a friendly reminder that newdealfarmgrrrlll needs our help.
(Backstory, here.)
Cheers,
Scott.
mark
Thanks for educating me re: health insurance and related matters. Maybe I’m a doofus, but I’ve been trying to log in for a week+ and have never succeeded. I started the 2017 application and decided to wait to see what program they would default me to (2016 policy canceled by provider). Haven’t been able to login since. I get ‘please wait’ for 45 minutes,
then a cheerful message saying I have ‘been successfully logged out’. Never anything else, not even for a millisecond.
Am I doing it wrong (anybody)?
Thanks again.
John M. Burt
One of the small pleasures of my life, for many years, was receiving spam calls from insurance salesmen who promised they could give me a better deal than whoever we were taking from.
The pleasure came in being able to say, “We-ell, my wife is a Fed”, and hearing them end the call rapidly.
If only FEHB had simply been opened up to anyone, it would all have worked so much better. Insurance companies would even have still gotten a cut….
lol chikinburd
I signed on and applied to see what I could get to replace Medicaid at the unknown date in the near future when I’ll be making too much for Medicaid. It told me…I should be getting Medicaid. Looks like I’d either have to wait for better information on my end, or…I don’t know what.
Richard Mayhew
@lol chikinburd: Yep, wait or is you want to find out what is available, go through healthsherpa.com and play around with the income calculator to get the numbers you need to see.
@mark: I think you are doing everything right. Try to log in either today to fix your auto-assigned plan for January or tomorrow to change your plan for February.
KithKanan
@mark: Not sure if it will help anything or not, but you might want to try visiting healthcare.gov in an ‘incognito’ or ‘private browsing’ window and see if it gives you the same error. It could be related to cookies stored in your browser from your started-but-incomplete application.
trollhattan
O/T More on Berlin
Seems probable it’s a copy of Nice, France.
mark
@KithKanan:
I appreciate the suggestion. Gave that a try, but no joy. In a similar vein I disabled all my security stuff (NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, etc.) in FireFox and still got nowhere. I confess I’ve sank so low I even tried InternetExplorer… which indicates an astounding level of frustration. ;]
Thanks even so, and thanks to Richard for the reply. I will set my sights on February then…
Raven Onthill
Well, we are enrolled in Medicaid for months to come, though our income will be higher next year, and we are hoping that Medicaid enrollment will count as “continuous coverage.”
Richard Mayhew
@Raven Onthill: yes medicaid is continuous
Duane
It should not be difficult to enroll for ACA.Republican meaness causes this.They could help make it work,but they’re hateful,so no.