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Under the president's plan, insurers will be permitted to extend this year's policies into next year, but it's far from clear that insurers will want to follow through. Some state regulators may not even let them.
Numbers released by the government Wednesday deepened doubts about the law's immediate viability, and proposed fixes have shortcomings.
A subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which built the federal data hub, will oversee the fixes.
Despite the president's urging that frustrated consumers use call centers, advocates say they're not "a realistic alternative" for comparing and selecting coverage.
“We believe the reason we are seeing the higher Medicaid numbers is many people [buying private health plans] will wait until the last minute to pay for their health coverage like many of us do with our cell phone or cable bill,” said Bethany Frey, spokeswoman for the Washington state marketplace.
Nationally, about one third of health centers’ 21 million patients are uninsured.   Had all states opted to expand the state federal program for the poor,  most of them — or about 5 million of the centers’ 7.4 million uninsured patients –would have gained coverage through either Medicaid or subsidized private coverage sold through online insurance marketplaces. With about […]
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