Vermont adds extra ObamaCare period [public unaware of forced fines]

The Hill ^ | February 19, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Vermont on Thursday became the third state to add an extra ObamaCare sign-up period through the end of tax season, adding pressure on federal health officials to take the same approach.

While the official ObamaCare deadline passed on Sunday, about a quarter of all state exchanges have added a grace period to accommodate the millions of uninsured people who will be forced to pay a penalty for the first time this tax season.

"It would be awful for a Vermont family to have to pay a fee of several hundred dollars or more, and then have to pay 100 percent of their medical care on top of that, just because they didn't know the penalty existed,” Lawrence Miller, chief of Vermont’s Health Care Reform, wrote in a statement Thursday.

“When our federal partners expressed an openness to providing this enrollment flexibility, we jumped at the opportunity,” he added.

The Obama administration has estimated that as many as 6 million people will pay fines for not having insurance in the first year of ObamaCare. Those fees amount to $95 or 1 percent of a person’s income last year, whichever is greater.

The stakes will rise significantly to $325 or 2 percent of their income during next year’s tax season.

Advocates argue that state and federal health officials should give uninsured people a second chance to sign up for ObamaCare this year because they may not know until April about last year’s fee.

“Millions upon millions of people are unaware about these penalties,” Ron Pollack, the executive director of the nonprofit group Families USA, said in a briefing Wednesday

California, Kentucky and New York are also mulling the extra sign-up session. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell said she will decide whether to add another enrollment period within the next two weeks.

All of the 13 state exchanges, as well as the federal exchange, have also extended the deadline for any customers already in queue to buy health insurance before Sunday.

[dsrtsage]

“It would be awful for a Vermont family to have to pay a fee of several hundred dollars or more, and then have to pay 100 percent of their medical care on top of that, just because they didn’t know the penalty existed,”

Actually, that is a feature, not a bug. Bring it on

[Bobalu]

Creating new Republican voters...

How long will the Dems allow this to continue...

its negating the illegal votes....

[Reverend Saltine]

Obama doesn’t actually “Care.” He has no heart; he has no humanity; he has no soul-—that I can see.

[FreeperCell]

Shhhhhh...

[Texas Fossil]

-—that I can see.

That which has been seen, cannot be unseen.

[Varsity Flight]

Exchange = (registration=branding like cattle)
Body Mortgage Exchange

Lie = “Penalty” as in PENAL
Truth = Tax

Lie = Penal-ty + 100% “medical”
Truth = Body Mortgage Branding (like cattle) payment + 100% medical below scammed thresholds.)

Lie = People don’t know about “it”
Truth = Non-exempt are learning of the Big Lie being uncovered.

Truth = Arbeitsziehungslager

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sept 2012: "........In a national crisis such as America faced in 2009 when 800,000 of us were losing our jobs every month, traditional leaders would have regarded their first task as one of rallying the country on a common agenda and bringing Americans together. Instead, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Pelosi put their radical agenda first — passing a massive health care bill, the most transformative legislation in American history, and passing it over the opposition not only of Republicans but even of Democratic voters in Massachusetts, who elected Republican Scott Brown to cast a vote against it.

Far from pursuing national unity to solve the crisis, Mr. Obama put his goal of transformation in front of everything. In order to achieve the change he wanted, he shut out the congressional Republicans in drafting his revolutionary legislation, and then disregarded the majority of Americans when they rejected his plan, defeating Democrats in special elections in New Jersey and Virginia — states that he had won. His radical goals caused Mr. Obama to squander his political capital on a divisive campaign in the first two years of his administration that has changed and embittered the political landscape, and that has persisted for four years and could continue........." Obama still wants to fundamentally transform America

[SWAMPSNIPER]

What is “the public” aware of?

[Robert357]

Washington State has done the same thing for about the same reason. The dirty little secret is that the funding of the state's exchange website is based on the number of enrolled, and there aren't enough yet to pay the websites expenses, so they need to somehow add more otherwise they will have to shut down for lack of money.....and we can't have that.

[Reverend Saltine]

I Can See A Lot, Masked Man....

[bandleader]

Rudu Giuliani has had the”Courage”to call Obongo just what he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cowboy Bob]

Don’t look at it as a “fine” look at it as an “investment!” /sarc

[Bernard]

So now ignorance of the law is an excuse to avoid paying the penalty. Isn’t that nice. It must really be terrible to find out that you are the “other guy” who has to fund this academic experiment.

[Rocky]

Don’t look at it as a “fine” look at it as an “investment!”

Shhhh...

(Whispering) Remember, it's a tax. - John Roberts

[napscoordinator]

So now ignorance of the law is an excuse

I sure wish I could use to get out of the annual April 15th screw you day.

[VTenigma]

If they don’t know about the penalty, wait until they learn about the deductibles! Bronze plan for 4 in VT, deductibles and co-pay, $8000.00.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

No kidding!

Or try to find a doctor!

[ken in texas]

“Millions upon millions of people are unaware about these penalties,” Ron Pollack, ... said in a briefing Wednesday

"Unaware" -- a description that fits far too many voters in this country.

[petercooper]

I laugh at any dimwit moron who voted Obama: who has seen their health insurance premiums skyrocket, or who has seen their health insurance cancelled, or who has seen a bill for a fine for not having health insurance, or who is out of a job, or who has seen their unemployment run out.... Ha Ha! Compassion? No.