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Sebelius 'Urging' Insurers to Cover People Who Haven't Paid
cnsnews.com ^ | 12/13/13 | Susan Jones

Posted on 12/13/2013 8:58:52 AM PST by ColdOne

(CNSNews.com) - Fearing that many people will think they have health insurance coverage when they do not, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is "urging" insurance companies to "give consumers additional time to pay their first month's premium and still have coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014."

Insurance companies should cover people who haven't yet paid, in other words.

With just a few weeks to go until Obamacare takes full effect, Sebelius announced additional changes on Thursday, some that tell insurance companies how to run their business and others that "strongly" encourage insurance companies to waive their rules -- on premium payments, for example.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: free; obamacare; sebelius
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1 posted on 12/13/2013 8:58:52 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Morphing into full on socialized health care before our eyes and the insurers will do it because they know government will just take money from the taxpayers to pay them.


2 posted on 12/13/2013 9:03:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ColdOne

Elle oh elle.


3 posted on 12/13/2013 9:05:13 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: ColdOne

Knowing this, who would now pay until you needed the insurance? This is crazy.


4 posted on 12/13/2013 9:05:16 AM PST by NEMDF
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Knowing this, who would now pay until you needed the insurance?

Secretary Sebelius "strongly" encourages you not to apply logic to this situation.

5 posted on 12/13/2013 9:08:20 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: ColdOne

How are they supposed to know who they are supposed to cover when Ms. SEbelius’ web site feeds them garbage?


6 posted on 12/13/2013 9:09:38 AM PST by DManA
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To: Leaning Right

Next comes their IRS ‘nudge’.


7 posted on 12/13/2013 9:10:36 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: NEMDF

Sign up for the most expensive health insurance policy you can get with the smallest deductible and copays and pay no premium to the insurance company. LOL is right!


8 posted on 12/13/2013 9:11:38 AM PST by Waryone
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To: ColdOne

If Insurers do this and the Fed bails them out on people who never pay then we essentially have a single payer system by executive fiat.


9 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:09 AM PST by circlecity
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To: TurboZamboni
Next comes their IRS ‘nudge’.

IRS Agent Smith:

What do you mean, "nudge"???

10 posted on 12/13/2013 9:14:09 AM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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11 posted on 12/13/2013 9:15:02 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: ColdOne

This is they way Hugo Chavez ran his economy.


12 posted on 12/13/2013 9:15:17 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ColdOne

And the insurance companies that are going along with Obamacare will totally agree with this propping up since they stand to be the richest companies in America. Obamacare with high cost and the huge deductibles will make these companies wealthy beyond belief. We have been screwed royally.


13 posted on 12/13/2013 9:16:58 AM PST by Logical me
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To: ColdOne

I cannot believe these people. Who are they to jerk the insurance companies around because of their own incompetence? What idiots to think you can just change how everyone’s systems work on demand or on a whim. These morons would never make it in the real world.


14 posted on 12/13/2013 9:17:45 AM PST by informavoracious (Root for Obamacare and healthcare.gov failure!)
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To: ColdOne
Obama and Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republican "Leaders" are BALL-LESS!!!!

This is ILLEGAL what's shes saying for them to do!!

15 posted on 12/13/2013 9:19:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: circlecity

That’s exactly what I’m seeing.

In fact it indicates why the chamber of commerce is now attacking the tea party. They love socialism because all competition is crushed and they are left as the only beneficiaries.


16 posted on 12/13/2013 9:20:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: NEMDF

How do the insurance companies know who they’re SUPPOSED to cover?


17 posted on 12/13/2013 9:20:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ColdOne

You know a system is thoroughly screwed up when Sebelius has to ask Insurance companies to pay up before they get paid.


18 posted on 12/13/2013 9:21:18 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: Ann Archy
This is ILLEGAL what's shes saying for them to do!!

They are insane communists.

From their perspective, they are doing nothing "wrong."

Therefor it is "on the right side of history."

It can't possibly be illegal (for them).

.

19 posted on 12/13/2013 9:23:31 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ColdOne

translation: Do it or my boss will find some way for the IRS to get you.


20 posted on 12/13/2013 9:24:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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