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Obama Administration Secretly Extends Health-Care Enrollment Deadline By a Day
The Washington Post ^ | 11:32 a.m. EST Monday, December 23, 2013 | Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 12/23/2013 8:49:54 AM PST by kristinn

At midnight Monday, the official deadline arrives for Americans to sign up through the new federal health insurance exchange for health plans that begin Jan. 1. But, without any public announcement, Obama administration officials have changed the rules so that people will have an extra day to enroll, according to two individuals with knowledge of the switch.

Over the weekend, government officials and outside IT contractors working on the online marketplace’s computer system made a software change that automatically gives people a Jan. 1 start date for their new coverage as long as they enroll by 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

The switch is the most recent rule change — some by government officials, and at least one by the insurance industry — as a milestone approaches for what has been a tumultuous three-month start of the long-awaited opportunity for Americans to buy new health plans under a 2010 law intended to reshape the nation’s health-care system.

For the first two months of the sign-up, a federal Web site, HealthCare.gov, had so many software and hardware defects that many consumers who wanted to select new insurance were frustrated by computer error messages. And administration officials held off on a planned campaign to urge people to take advantage of the opportunity for new insurance.

At the start of this month, Obama administration officials announced that the Web site was largely working smoothly, and began to urge consumers to sign up for coverage before the Dec. 23 deadline. The full open-enrollment period extends through the end of March, but the first deadline is for people who want coverage to start on New Year’s Day — the date it first becomes available.

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KEYWORDS: 0homocare; aca; bho44; bydecree; dictators; fudge; governmentbydecree; lawlessness; maybealittlebloooooo; obamacare
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To: no-to-illegals

Trying to use the web site is like trying to shovel horse manure back against a rising tide. Sooner or later you give up and go sit on the boardwalk. Less smelly back there.


61 posted on 12/23/2013 12:49:38 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

LOL Jimmy and is an excellent point.


62 posted on 12/23/2013 12:55:28 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: kabar
" In the meantime, our children and grand children will be saddled by the debt that has already been incurred to support these programs. "

You raise some good points but the next generations perhaps can regard it as payback for the years of education and infrastructure that they received. We've stuck them with the cost of wars too. But I think generational wars are out of place in this country, they are not family friendly. Regards,

63 posted on 12/23/2013 1:06:14 PM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: kristinn

And he’s going to give away free Pontiacs to everybody too.


64 posted on 12/23/2013 1:26:34 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: ex-snook
You raise some good points but the next generations perhaps can regard it as payback for the years of education and infrastructure that they received.

The next generation and those beyond will curse us for what we have left them as their patrimony. We have eaten all the seed corn, undermined the Constitution, and saddled them with the welfare state that will lead them into penury.

But I think generational wars are out of place in this country, they are not family friendly.

It is our generation that has declared war on the young and future generations. We have already seen a massive redistribution of wealth from the young to the old. And the debt that has been incurred will guarantee a decline in the standard of living. By 2030 there will be just two workers for every retiree.

Frankly, I wish there was a generational war. The young have just accepted our generation theft without fighting back. It is like taking candy from a baby.

65 posted on 12/23/2013 1:34:28 PM PST by kabar
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To: kabar
"By 2030 there will be just two workers for every retiree. "

Nah. There will still be 10 only 8 are in other countries in all the jobs for the young that we have exported. [check what you buy] These foreign employees nor their employer pay into the system. The system was designed for working Americans to support retired Americans, in turn. No wonder it is going broke. Job tariff should be installed. No free ride for imports.

66 posted on 12/23/2013 2:19:45 PM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: ex-snook
The system was designed for working Americans to support retired Americans, in turn.

These kind of "systems" are called Ponzi schemes.

67 posted on 12/23/2013 3:11:39 PM PST by kabar
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To: MeshugeMikey

Although Obamamugabe cannot be ignored, he can be ridiculed. It is one of life’s little pleasures.


68 posted on 12/23/2013 3:23:26 PM PST by peyton randolph (Tagline copyright in violation of Directive 10-289)
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To: MeshugeMikey; All

Why does Michelle look all pissed off all the time? Ya reckon maybe she’s finally figured this out?


69 posted on 12/23/2013 3:30:27 PM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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To: kristinn

My understanding is that even with the abyssmally low number of people signing up on the 0dumb0_Care gubmint exchange, the real story is that virtually no one has paid even their first premium so far. So some of the sheeple have signed up, but so far, no paid premiums which is the real test of seeing this debacle have even a ghost of a chance to succeed. I hope & pray that 0dumb0_Care will be the greatest act of non-compliance & insurrection this country has ever seen.


70 posted on 12/23/2013 3:37:26 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: kristinn

Found this: An Israeli doctor says: “in Israel, medicine is so advanced that we cut off a man’s testicles, put them on another man and in 6 weeks, he is looking for work
“The German doctor says: “that’s nothing, in Germany we take part of a brain, put it in another man, and in 4 weeks he is looking for work
“The Russian doctor says: “gentlemen, we take half a heart from a man, put it in another’s chest and in 2 weeks he is looking for work.
“The United States doctor laughs: “You all are behind us. five years ago, we took a man with no brains, no heart and no balls and made him President. Now, the whole country is looking for work!


71 posted on 12/23/2013 3:47:52 PM PST by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: kristinn

I read an article on yahoo that most people don’t understand obamacare and many of them don’t even understand insurance.

The lefties believed their followers would sign up because the great obama told them to.


72 posted on 12/23/2013 4:15:15 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks kristinn.
Jarrett

73 posted on 12/23/2013 4:32:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Constitution

74 posted on 12/23/2013 4:38:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: upchuck
SHES VERY Aware of the trade off...of being married to barry for the prestige she thinks it offers her....but somehow cant help but express her disgust and utter contempt for em?

Note that we never see any photos of Mooch and Barry out trekking through the "wilds"? ya think hes afraid of her?


75 posted on 12/23/2013 5:25:52 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: peyton randolph
the rigid humorless left can not TOLERATE being ridiculed.

they FEEL themsleves abover reproach let alone RIDICULE,

I FEEL THIER PAIN!

so does that guy theyre about to trample over there on the battleground!


76 posted on 12/23/2013 5:29:07 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: kristinn

Is that the 15th or 16th time this law was changed by the White House without Congressional action?


77 posted on 12/23/2013 5:55:04 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: no-to-illegals

No, they manufacture them in public school. Never a shortage.


78 posted on 12/23/2013 7:00:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
I forgot ... must be getting old and LOL am.

Merry Christmas Eleutheria5 to you and yours.

79 posted on 12/23/2013 7:08:09 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy; kristinn
Oh yeah. Hordes of those young healthy people are going to spend Christmas Eve signing up for Obamacare. Is there anybody working on behalf of Obamacare sane?

The article mentioned a "frantic" guy who was anxious to sign up because he needed a liver transplant and had a doctors' appointment already scheduled in January. Get too many of that type of sign ups and insurance companies will go broke before the year is up! Could just all be part of the plan, though.

80 posted on 12/23/2013 10:22:52 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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