Archive for the ‘ObamaCare’ Category

Covered California Removes Its Physician Directory Because of Errors

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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“I Hate @CoveredCA” –Image: Lizzie@Twitter

(NY Times) ‘Covered California’ has taken down its physician directory amid complaints from doctors and patients alike, that lists of in-network physicians and hospitals included in insurance plans were error-riddled and inaccurate.

On the 05 February I wrote here that many consumers that had already faced hurdles signing up for ‘Covered California’ health plans, were now struggling to find in-network physicians.

Related: Some California Doctors Surprised to be on Provider List –KPIX

Healthcare.gov Will Shutdown for 2.5 Days –Breitbart

Wannabe King Obama: “I Can Do Whatever I Want”

Monday, February 10th, 2014

ObamaCare WaiversWaanabe King Obama, Makes New ObamaCare Law
Image: PaulineRevereTwitter

(Weekly Standard) The man who would rather be King, President Obama quipped  today during a visit to Monticello with French President Hollande, “That’s the good thing as president, I can do whatever I want.”

The Obama administration announced today that it will delay yet again, implementation of the ’employer mandate’ for small businesses with 50-99 employees for the second consecutive year and will make adjustments of requirement for large corporations.

Subsequent to Obama’s latest revision, House Speaker John Boehner released the following statement saying:

“Once again, the president is giving a break to corporations while individuals and families are still stuck under the mandates of his health care law and once again, the president is rewriting law on a whim. If the administration doesn’t believe that employers can manage the burden of the law, how can struggling families be expected to? This continued manipulation by the president breeds confusion and erodes Americans’ confidence in him and his health care law. We need fairness for all with relief from ObamaCare for every American.”

Related: Obama’s Employer Mandate Delay Violates ACA –CNS News

Obama Admin “Liberated” More Americans From Employment in January to Pursue Their Happiness

Friday, February 7th, 2014

ObamaCare Death PanelObamaCare Death Panel — Ramirez Cartoons/Investors.com

(Zero Hedge) The Obama administration has liberated even more Americans from employment to pursue their happiness in January, payrolls increased by just 113,000 the Labor Dept reported this morning, well below the gain of 180,000 jobs economists expected.

On the 09 January, the Labor Dept reported that in December, a mere 74,000 jobs were created with 347,000 Americans being “liberated” from employment opportunities.

Related: Teenage Unemployment 20.7% Three Times Natl Avg –CNS

Covered California Enrollees “Tell a Friend” Consumers Hit by Snags at Doctor’s Offices

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

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(L.A. Times) Many consumers that faced hurdles signing up for ObamaCare/Covered California health plans now are struggling to find in-network physicians.

Related: Covered California Turning Cancer Patients Away –Breitbart

Virginia Man’s Personal Info Stolen After Using ObamaCare Website

Historically High Number of People Will Be Locked Out of Labor Force Because of ObamaCare

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

The D WordDepression Era Unemployment

(CNBC)  An historically high number of people will be locked out of the workforce by 2021 because of ObamaCare, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released today.

In related economic news from the CBO it is estimated that the labor participation rate which is already historical lows is projected to further drop to 60.8% by 2024 should things remain the same.

ObamaCare Network ‘Healthcare.gov’ Vulnerable to Cyber Attack

Monday, February 3rd, 2014

ObamaCare OopsObamaCare Oops!!! –Image: Tea Party Patriots@Twitter

(Washington Free Beacon) U.S. Intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama Administration to check ‘Healthcare.gov’ for malicious software after learning that developers linked to Belarus government, a former Soviet republic, closely allied with Russia helped produce the website and inserted malicious code that could be used for cyber attacks, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised.

On the 20 January, I wrote here that Hacking Expert David Kennedy who appeared before Congress, told FOX News Chris Wallace subsequent to his testimony, how easy it was to penetrate ‘Healthcare.gov’ and gaining access to tens of thousands of enrollees personal information.

Covered California How Are Things Going Now? Still Having Troubles Huh…

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Covered California“Been trying to apply for ‘Covered California’ all morning and it keeps kicking me off…No fun.” –Caroline Corrigan@Twitter

“Shocking report out with new questions on ‘Covered California’ and how you might be putting your ID safety at risk.” Shannon Brinias@Twitter

Dozens of ‘Covered California’ Employees Have Criminal Pasts –CBS Sacramento

What Others Are Saying…Covered California@Facebook

Michael Kitano “Is anybody still getting an error message when trying to login? Its been a week now…”

Gypsy R. Hartman from Los Angeles “I received a ‘Case Number’ for a plan I don’t recognize! I’ve contacted ‘Covered California’ online–6 days ago (still awaiting that 48 hour response) and I also faxed ‘Covered California’ My ‘Covered California’ agent who signed me up with another plan, says he has no idea what it is….Covered California why don’t you help anyone????”

Robert Lassers from Los Angeles “Covered CA who is running this insane program. So frustrated being on hold for hours. I am soooo frustrated…I have not received a bill for coverage, don’t know if I should cancel my other expensive insurance because I think I am covered with this program. I am in purgatory.”

Robert Finch from Tahoma “I can’t afford $500/month with a $5000 deductible. Who decided to call this affordable?”

Sabru Ha from Los Angeles “I’ve submitted my application with the required documents (online) since December of last year and still haven’t gotten a word from your agency.”

Gabby Plascencia “Any more disappointed. I have attempted to enroll at least 3 times this year only to walk away frustrated and angry. Every time I press the submit button–I keep getting ‘administrative error’ tonight alone, I have attempted and failed to submit the remainder of my application 7 times with no success! I was on hold on your help line for 30 minutes only to get cut off…shame on us. Facebook whose purpose is no where as important as health coverage…can imagine the kind of volume yet we can’t make a page that does not crash!!!”

Cindy Appel “16 total hours on hold over past two weeks waiting on hold with both ‘Covered California’ and Anthem Blue Cross. Still can’t get a person. No response from either party to emails. I just want to pay and start my coverage but I’m still not in the system. Jan 28th has passed. I need to go to the doctor. Somebody out there please help me. Developing nations do this better than us.”

Chela Pollard “I got my card finally from Anthem but there was no policy with it, so my doctor doesn’t know what tests or meds to order. Any suggestions? It is impossible to get through on the phone and the online site keeps telling me that I’ve entered the wrong phone number when I try to contact them. Thanks.”

ObamaCare/Covered California Indoctrination Center Shows Up at Grant High School Van Nuys

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Covered CaliforniaThere Doesn’t Appear to be Much Interest in ObamaCare/Covered California at Grant H.S. in Van Nuys –Image: Griselda Vargas@Twitter

Uninsured Turn Against ObamaCare

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Uninsured ObamaCareThe Uninsured Which ObamaCare Was To Help, Hate the ACA Even More Than the General Public –IBDeditorials@Twitter

(Heritage Foundation) Two new public opinion polls show that the Uninsured which ObamaCare was to help get health insurance are hardening the views against President Obama’s chief legislative accomplishment.

In the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation poll that came out today, 47% of Americans that lack health insurance have an unfavorable view of ObamaCare.

According to a new Gallup poll released today, 53% of the uninsured plan on buying health insurance, down from 60% that had planned to do so in December.

Covered California How Are Things Going Now? Still Not So Good, Huh…

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

Covered CAKen Lenga@Twitter “Absolutely pathetic, ‘Covered CA’ glad I have nothing better to do for the next 22:52”

Covered CaliforniaMpaulaoliveira@Twitter “TERRIBLE experience with @CoveredCA supposed to wait over 1h in queue to reset password??? 1-877-phone occupied? OMG.”

Kangavari@Twitter “The wait times for your hotline are a joke–said 30 minutes been on for an hour and twenty. Can’t login to my account either.”

AMomster@Twitter “No health insurance ID yet. Paid over 2 months ago. Still getting letters saying I haven’t paid. @CoveredCA”

What Others Are Saying to CoveredCalifornia@Facebook

Edna Pontellier “I never succeeded in getting anyone on the phone. I made another futile attempt at ‘live chat’ tonight. Not only do you get dropped after 90 minutes of waiting, the option to fill out an online form to submit always ALWAYS fails…”

Brennan King Cane “Not great news about Orange County’s Medi-Cal provider.”

Federal Regulators Fault OC’s  CalOptima –Orange County Register

Mike Reaume “Have you noticed there is not one positive post on this entire page? Peter Lee are you listening?”

Victoria Hicks Castellaccio “Thanks for taking more money out of my families pocket. My new ObamaCare plan from Kaiser is costing us $6100 for my impending birth. Under my old NON-ObamaCare plan, the same delivery would have been $250 a day! Kaiser is telling me they can’t upgrade the plan and save $5500 because YOU won’t let them. Is this true? You won’t help save a family $5500? Who are you helping?”

Richard Dickman “My wife received her Anthem BC card eff 1-1-2014 couple of weeks ago. Paid Anthem online…I believe we are covered. Yesterday I got a letter from ‘Covered CA’ wanting birth certificate and SSN card and that we have 90 days, what gives? We were both born and raised here in California and all that info was given previous plus we mailed ‘twice’ income verification…So my question is, do we disregard the letter from ‘Covered CA’ on 1-17 or respond? Will this jeopardize our coverage with Anthem? I don’t want to send more personal info that they already have and have it floating around somewhere, especially with this Target mess…”

Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Are experiencing issues with your site–I have been trying to apply for weeks and continue to get system errors and got this when I tried to chat with someone.”

Covered California “Hi Danny: Our online chat isn’t working for everyone right now; If you need to contact us call 1-800….If you’re still getting that error, trying logging in with a different browser or making sure your browser is fully up to date.”

Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Excellent suggestion only that every time I call that number it tells me you are experiencing a high volume of calls and to use the website and then hangs up.”

Loic Conte from Los Angeles “Am I the only one to not being able to create only 1 household member? I always have to complete information for 2 members both with my name? Like if I was 2 people! Please help.”

Kevin Gambetti “Because of lies told to me by ‘Covered California’ I may lose everything. I’m disabled and now they forced me on Medi-Cal which does not support my doctors and they refused to let me get and pay for my own plan that would let me keep my doctors and save my life. I think this is to kill off the sick and old, really…”

Maureen O’Brien “Fix your system!!! I qualified  and was approved for financial assistance when I applied in December through ‘Covered California’ and even paid my first month premium with ‘Blue Shield’ and received my ‘Welcome’ packet and ID card–only to get a letter from ‘Covered California’ last week inexplicably stating that I now don’t qualify for assistance and that my ObamaCare policy will be canceled  in 90 days!!!! No one answers your Help Line to explain this snafu. Stop all the hype and start getting your act together Covered California!!!! Even your above link doesn’t work. What is going on????”

Mimi Ahmadi from Beverly Hills “I get ObamaCare but most of doctors, clinics and hospitals they don’t accept…I had Blue Cross PPO and right now I have Blue Shield…they say they don’t accept because they don’t pay good, unfortunately since last two weeks my shoulder and neck was painful and I had to do X-Ray and MRI and they don’t accept. I pay $107 for this insurance, I have cancer. I worry about that if this insurance doesn’t work what can I do.”