Replies to post #12189 on In Zeev's Honor, Plan the Trade and Trade the Plan

[hap0206]

The NYT link has an excellent graph as to how it was supposed to work

Note that before being accepted, there are apparently about 20 agency data bases must be accessed and evaluated -- note the last one
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Application
Consumers provide basic information to set up accounts, which allows them to compare costs and benefits of health plans. They can apply for a plan as well as for financial assistance, which can be in the form of tax credits or government assistance programs.Application
PROBLEM
Consumers had difficulty creating online accounts and were unable to compare plans

Verification
The application is sent through a data services hub, which checks the identity of the consumer through information from various federal agencies.

Social Security Administration to verify Social Security Number, citizenship and other information.

Department of Homeland Security to make sure the applicant is a citizen or legal resident.

Internal Revenue Service and a government contractor to verify applicants’ incomes if they are seeking financial assistance.

Veterans Health Administration, Defense Department, Office of Personnel Management, Medicare, Peace Corps and the applicant’s state Medicaid agency to check that they are not already enrolled in other health insurance programs.

[zab]

Its not that I am happy, and in a coherent discussion with some in this forum, The Affordable Health Care Act will have lots of problems in the years ahead. But then medical care when you are sick is never an easy discussion.

When you have a loved one, or a good friend who is sick you just would like to know that he or she has the opportunity to seek medical help besides just going to an emergency room for some quick treatment.

Medical Care is Expensive, and many of us have watched those same friends and loved ones have to choose between bankruptcy or getting medical care. Most Doctors I have seen did not have all of the answers, and sometimes they would tell me that my chances were 50/50, so even getting proper medical care is no guarantee either.

But to deny any American at any hospital because you di not heave health Insurance is just wrong in the 21st century. If we can send a man into outer space, we can certainly find a way to get American Health Insurance. Again this just gets you in the door for medical treatment, it does not mean we have cured all of the diseases we all can get. All of us will get sick at some time in our lives, to ignore this issue while Millions of Americans are denied health care is wrong, period.

I have three friends who are still a little young for Medicare but they are looking forward to the AffordableHealth Care Act to start in January, they are all Conservative but they have no Medical Insurance at this time. They all have pre-existing conditions, that's what happens when you become 63 years old. They are also scared about losing their homes and everything they have built up over a lifetime, but they have seen it happen a few times. Your wife gets cancer, and you lose your insurance, or you use up your LIMITED coverage, Mary's brothers wife did that one, but he was lucky, she died, but not before he had to sell the house to pay some of the medical bills. She has been dead for five years, and he still has bills to pay off.