Obama Administration Offers Preview for Health Plans People who want to enroll in Obamacare health coverage for 2015 can “window-shop” prices and benefits of insurance plans beginning tonight. The preview feature added to the government’s revamped healthcare.gov website is intended to ease pressure on the system by allowing curious consumers a sneak peek at prices for health plans a week before enrollment begins. Last year, consumers who tried to use the website were met with errors and delays that prevented millions from signing up for several months. Challenges are mounting for the second year of enrollment in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Republicans gained control of Congress last week and the Supreme Court announced it will consider whether a key feature, subsidies to reduce the cost of insurance, should be available to all Americans. The Obama administration, meanwhile, must simultaneously persuade more than 7 million existing customers to renew and sign up millions more uninsured people. “We have been working in a number of areas to raise the bar,” Andy Slavitt, the deputy director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs healthcare.gov, told reporters today on a conference call that previewed the feature. “Our principal focus is to bring people back [...] ilinnews/obama-administration-offers-preview-for-health-plans/
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:00:28 +0000
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