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Healthcare Exchange Sign-up – Yet Another Update & Yet Another Apparent Failure

December 3, 2013

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Yesterday afternoon, after the announcements over the weekend by the Obama administration that many of the issues with the Federal healthcare exchange website had been fixed, my client once again tried to submit an application.  In my prior posts I have described our experiences in unsuccessfully attempting to submit an application via web site on numerous occasions since […]

Healthcare Exchange Sign-up Update

November 19, 2013

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It’s been two weeks since my last update on my client’s trials and tribulations in attempting to submit an application on the Federal healthcare exchange.  I can report there has been no change–we continue to be unable to submit the application. The scenario has been fairly consistent over the past two weeks.  At least every […]

Healthcare Exchange Sign-up Update

November 7, 2013

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It’s been a week since my last update on my client’s attempts to submit an application for individual health insurance on the Federal healthcare exchange website.  We’ve attempted many more times in the past week to submit an application and continue to be unable to submit it. The (only) good news is that the system remembers all […]

Healthcare Exchange Sign-up Update — Still Waiting…

November 1, 2013

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Last week I described being teased by the Federal healthcare exchange web site–a client and I thought we had submitted an application to get him a health insurance quote, only to discover the next day that the application was still “In progress” (translation: incomplete) for reasons unknown.  Since then, we’ve tried repeatedly to log back […]

Healthcare Exchange Sign-up Review – An Unscientific Sample of One

October 22, 2013

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Yesterday I had the chance to test the new healthcare exchange web site, coincidentally the same day that President Obama admitted that the web site had “kinks in the system.”  A small business owner client wanted to compare the cost of his own personal health insurance on the exchange to his current rates in his company’s group […]

Healthcare Reform – New Requirement to Provide Notice to All Employees Starts October 1

September 21, 2013

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Most employers have two new obligations that commence over the next two weeks related to the new healthcare exchanges that will become available on January 1, 2014. First, employers are required to provide a notice to all existing employees by October 1, 2013. There are two form notices–one for employers who offer health insurance and […]