Posted on 05/16/2014 10:24:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A large number of people who've signed up for private health insurers through the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange have not paid their first month's premiums, meaning they are at risk of going without coverage through November.
"I've already had clients not pay and lose their coverage," says Lisa Lettenmaier, who owns the health insurance brokerage Health Source NW in Tigard. "It's imperative for people to pay their premiums on time."
More than 81,000 people went through through Cover Oregon – either through paper or electronic applications—to select a private health plan. Of those, 5,000 have already cancelled policies or been terminated for lack of payment. Thousands more have not yet paid their first-month's premiums, meaning their have not completed their enrollment, according to carriers.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
FORWARD COMRADES!!
Do you think if one of these non payers shows up at the ER they will say, “Sorry, no current OBAMACARE no treatment.” I doubt it.
wAIT A MINUTE. yOU MEAN IT IS NOT FREE?
“But...but...but...I thought it was FREEEEE??!!”
Screw the deadbeats. I feel sorry for the healthcare providers who are stuck with the worthless accounts receivable.
I wonder just how many will make the second month’s payment?
They are expecting uncle sugarbama to whup out the country’s checkbook, and pay their bills, and they may get it.
UNFAIR!
Wait a minute... I thought that Covered Oregon failed miserably and was shut down.
federal and Oregon officials already have privately agreed that closing down the system is the best path to rescue the state marketplace, the country’s only one to fail so spectacularly that no residents have been able to sign up for coverage online since it opened early last fall.
-PJ
“I wonder just how many will make the second month’s” payment?
Exactly. Or the 3rd, 4th and on down the line.
Good point! Now I am really confused.
I wouldn’t feel too sorry for the providers. Most of the big ones and insurance companies bought into this with the expectation of an assured windfall of premiums.
I’m thinking more of the doctors offices. It’s been a nightmare for them trying to find out who’s covered and who’s not, and they’ve been left holding the bag in many cases.
well if the Obama Admin signed them up and never told them they were signed up ,well you can guess the rest
Most of the big ones and insurance companies bought into this with the expectation of an assured windfall of premiums.
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NO sympathy for them - they sold their ‘souls’ to dance with the Devil and they’re finding out that tap dancing with a flaming pitchfork up their shorts is painful ... not the romantic, smooth waltz they were expecting.
My DIL works in an ob-gyn clinic. In January they had a number of “givemedats” just show up for their free healthcare. They almost had to call the cops to get one of them out of there.
I don’t know how the doctors offices can stand it.
Cover Oregon had a semi-working if totally awkward system a couple of months ago that involved multiple partial-functionality apps as a stopgap measure. Some did enroll that way.
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