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I think it's pretty obvious that if the bugs aren't sufficiently fixed within the next few weeks, the individual mandate penalty will be waived or at least dela
by MartinCron 13y ago
I think it's pretty obvious that if the bugs aren't sufficiently fixed within the next few weeks, the individual mandate penalty will be waived or at least delayed.
- abarringer 13y agoI don't give a flying rip about the individual mandate penalty. But.. If you need insurance and you just received a cancel notice from BCBS that your policy is gone as of Jan 1st it becomes imperative that this exchange work within the next few weeks. This isn't a political game real people are going to be royally hozed and soon if this doesn't get fixed.
- MartinCron 13y agoYou've got more than nine weeks, I have faith that even the sub-par government contractors working on this will get it sorted out by then. Feel free to come back and tell me how wrong I am if my faith turns out to be misguided.
- hga 13y agoNo, 9 weeks would require everyone who must get a new policy by Jan 1 to get all the way through all the systems, exchanges -> insurance companies, in the last three days of December. Even if several paths are kludged for these most desperate millions of people losing their current coverage Jan 1, I can't see how any more time than 7 weeks is feasible, leaving 2 and a fraction to process them. And to know the system is really working, large numbers, 10s of thousands, had better be getting successfully through the systems before then.