We at @CMSGov want to ensure a seamless shopping experience for everyone seeking coverage, so starting at 3 pm ET today, we are extending the marketplace #OpenEnrollment deadline until 3 am ET December 18! https://t.co/HmVdpJlX2C
— Administrator Seema Verma (@SeemaCMS) December 16, 2019
Healthcare.gov had major gremlims yesterday, the last scheduled day of Open Enrollment.
Healthcare.gov will be re-opening the Open Enrollment gates in a couple of hours until early Wednesday afternoon morning.
If you missed out yesterday,or you found out new information today, you can still go back into Healthcare.gov and either choose a plan for the first time OR switch to a better plan.
I will be checking my Balloon-Juice e-mail several times a day until Open Enrollment closes
Elizabelle
That’s great to hear. I signed up the morning of Sunday, December 15, after working with the site the previous few days, and it worked superbly for me; logging in, remembering where I was. I was thrilled it was so easy; other years have been problematic. Sorry to hear others had the tech problems (and probably panic about ending up uninsured).
Premiums are still about 3 times too high, though. We could do so much better as a country.
JPL
Good and are they going to notify folks of the change?
janesays
Head’s up – Verma’s tweet indicated it is only being reopened until very early Wednesday (3AM ET – middle of the night), not Wednesday afternoon. Or for people on the West Coast, by the end of the day tomorrow (midnight). So that’s really only a 36 hour window it will be open again. Certainly better than nothing, but it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t at least run through the end of the year.
ProfDamatu
Ah, excellent! This will give me a chance to scrape some plan data for my county and the neighboring county, so I can run some numbers over break – much easier to do during open enrollment, but I just submitted grades, so I haven’t had time to mess with anything else for several days! I’m an adjunct faculty member on my uni’s Faculty Senate, and one of the things we’re exploring is the insurance situation for adjuncts. I’d like to pull together a presentation to really illustrate for the powers that be what we’re up against, to hopefully build a fire under their butts to use the university’s power to help us out (we’re not eligible for the state health insurance plan, but I’m hoping they can establish a work-around).
On a personal note, things do seem to be more streamlined this year in terms of the enrollment data getting to the insurance companies. Last year, I had to spend a couple of hours while out of town visiting family on the phone with Optima, trying to verify that they had my enrollment data and that I’d be able to pay my January premium…it was very stressful. This year – well, today I received three things from Optima: next year’s insurance card, the plan overview handout, and my January bill! So glad I don’t have to add “hassle with the insurance company” to my to-do list.
Chyron HR
Administrator Seema Vermin
@SeemaCMS
Dammit, they caught us.
Duane
Hard to make a healthcare system work when the people in charge don’t want it to.
donnah
I’m not sharing specifics, but my husband and I are losing our coverage this year. With my adult son turning 27, he will no longer be included in our coverage. So we would go from paying $400 per month to $1400 per month.
There’s no way on earth we can do this. Are there recommended savings account that would allow us to deposit our manageable $400 per month as our own health care account?
MomSense
They’ve been having problems for a couple of weeks. It took my son many attempts but he finally was able to log in and select a plan on Friday. Harvard Pilgrim HMO silver. Phew. I was getting worried.
Mart
I finished my app last night with no problems. I chose a Bronze plan that I can still fund a Health Savings Account. Main beef is I swear the monthly premium was bumped up $100/month from a couple days earlier. Snooze you loose I guess.
TomatoQueen
2nd try, 405 error. It appears we’re all being hit up to pay for Vermin’s “stolen” jewelry. Whodaf* takes 43K worth of bling on a business trip? Take that, server.
ProfDamatu
@Mart: Is it possible you were looking at a slightly different plan, or changed your estimated income? I ask because insurers had to get their rates approved months ago; they can’t change things on the fly during open enrollment (outside of some glitches that I recall happening a couple of years ago), as far as I know. It shouldn’t be like buying a plane ticket! :-)