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I 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

I 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 ago
You'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 ago
  No, 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.