Media Updates
Another last-minute ObamaCare exemption:
- Associated Press: Obama opens insurance law loophole, hardship exemption delays penalties 1 year
- Reuters: Last-minute Obamacare exemption for those with canceled plans
- Forbes: Utter Chaos: White House Exempts Millions From Obamacare’s Insurance Mandate, ‘Unaffordable’ Exchanges
- Weekly Standard: ‘The First Crack in the Individual Mandate’
- Business Insider: The Partial Individual Mandate Delay Exemplifies Everything Wrong With How The Administration Is Implementing Obamacare
- Associated Press: Options set for those lacking new health coverage
- Wall Street Journal: Last-Minute Health-Site Enrollment Proves a Hard Sell
- Politico: Mandate change adds to Obamacare confusion
- Wall Street Journal: White House Will Allow Some To Buy Catastrophic Health Plans
- Washington Post: Obama administration relaxes rules of health-care law four days before deadline
- Politico: W.H. to give new option for people who had health plans canceled
ObamaCare skepticism escalates:
- AP-GFK Poll: Another Worry About New Health Law
- New York Times: Broad Skepticism on Health Care Law
- CBS News: Poll: Both uninsured, insured skeptical about Obamacare
- USA Today: USA TODAY/Pew poll: Obama struggles with Millennials
- MSNBC: Millenials walk as Obama struggles
- Florida Watchdog.org: Lost in translation: Once-supportive Hispanics turning backs on Obama, ACA
- CBS News: Poll: Many uninsured haven’t explored Obamacare options
- Washington Examiner: Obamacare shows America’s aversion to big government policies
- New York Times: Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
- Fox News: Fox News Poll: 67 percent say delay Obamacare, 53 percent would vote to repeal it
Sticker shock and cancellations continue:
- Politico: Next Obamacare crisis: Small-business costs?
- Associated Press: Why deductibles may bring Obamacare Sticker Shock
- Wall Street Journal (Boskin): ObamaCare’s Troubles Are Only Beginning
- Pantagraph.com: Small-business owners feel bite of health insurance law
- Washington Free Beacon: South Carolina Firefighters Facing Millions in Extra Costs Due to Obamacare
- Investor’s Business Daily: ObamaCare: 5 Land Mines Dead Ahead For Health Law
- Hot Air: Sebelius: Hey, some of you may pay more for insurance
- Weekly Standard: Sebelius: Yes, Some Will Pay More for Health Insurance Under ObamaCare
- Forbes: Obamacare Medicare Taxes -- Increasing Your 2013 Tax Bill
- Associated Press: Under 500K with revoked health plans lack coverage
Days before deadline, enrollment problems persist:
- Reuters: Obamacare tech hurdle looms right before enrollment deadline
- CNN: Private exchanges: Obamacare shopping still not ready
- USA Today: Insurers adjust deadlines in response to HHS
- Fox News: Feds: Thousands of ObamaCare web purchases not recorded, incorrect
- Reuters: About 15,000 Obamacare sign-ups didn’t transmit, improvement seen: administration
- Washington Free Beacon: Woman’s Obamacare App Lost for Third Time By ACA Marketplace
- Breitbart: House Report: Ill-Trained Obamacare Navigators Encouraging Fraud, Jeopardizing Private Info
- Chicago Tribune: editorial: The Obamacare 10 Percent Club
- Washington Free Beacon: WH Still Unsure When President Will Sign Up for Obamacare
Insurers left holding the bag:
- Forbes: Government Takeover: White House Forces Obamacare Insurers To Cover Unpaid Patients At A Loss
- Reuters: Insurers wary of new Obamacare fix for January health plans
- Washington Post: White House delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy
- Associated Press: Insurers extend premium deadline
- Wall Street Journal: Editorial: Backdating ObamaCare
- San Francisco Chronicle: New insurance law: Long hours, low commissions for agents
ObamaCare problems span the country:
- Associated Press: Less than 1,000 health care enrollments in Del.
- Baltimore Sun: Md. health care website still has glitches despite major fixes
- Des Moines Register: Register Exclusive: Health care for 10,000 Iowans in limbo over communications snarl
- National Review Online: Kentucky Hokum
- National Journal: 45 States Still Haven’t Hit 10% of Enrollment Goals for Obamacare
- Sacramento Bee: California groups report strategies, challenges of plugging Obamacare
- Los Angeles Times: California’s health exchange botched letters to 114,000 households
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Latest Obamacare problems in state involve online issues for three insurers
- Washington Examiner: Colorado college students face job losses due to Obamacare
- Oregonian: Cover Oregon: Official who oversaw development of health exchange, Carolyn Lawson, resigns
- Wall Street Journal: editorial: National Lampoon’s ObamaCare Vacation
- Forum News Service: MNsure executive director resigns after Costa Rican vacation, computer issues
- NorthJersey.com: AmeriHealth of New Jersey won’t renew 100,000 health plans that don't meet new standards