"Hindenburg.gov is working great now," but those subsidies you qualified for? Well...

[Adam]

Another Glitch: Newly discovered HealthCare.gov error giving bad info on premium aid

A newly discovered glitch in the main ObamaCare website reportedly is giving thousands of people the wrong information about whether they qualify for premium subsidies.

The Philadelphia Inquirer discovered the glitch while entering hypothetical incomes into the calculator on HealthCare.gov. The newspaper found that the calculator is using the wrong year's poverty guidelines -- a simple mistake that, for months, has resulted in would-be enrollees getting inaccurate guidance.

Because of the glitch, some people may be initially told they qualify for subsidies when they don't. Others may be told they don't qualify when they do.

It's unclear how many people have been affected, but the mistake raises the possibility that thousands are giving up the hunt for insurance after being told, inaccurately, that they don't qualify for government aid.

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Most federal programs are using 2014 poverty levels as the basis for these kinds of estimates, but the Affordable Care Act mandated that the 2013 guidelines be used this year (in part because sign-ups began last year).

Yet, HealthCare.gov continued to use the higher 2014 guidelines.

The result is that people whose incomes are just over the high end of the 2013 guidelines are told they qualify, only to find out later they don't.

Likewise, those just over the low end are told they don't qualify -- according to the Inquirer, only if they ignore that message, and click through to use another tool on the site, will they find out they do qualify.

So you get told you qualify for subsidies, you sign up for Obamafail, and then come next year at tax time, they say "Whoops! It turns out that the $10,000 worth of government subsidies that we said you qualified for this year actually don't apply to you. Sorry about that. Now pay up. We're from the IRS and we're here to help you."

Christ, what an unbelievable train wreck this whole thing is.

[scott]

So you get told you qualify for subsidies, you sign up for Obamafail, and then come next year at tax time, they say "Whoops! It turns out that the $10,000 worth of government subsidies that we said you qualified for this year actually don't apply to you. Sorry about that. Now pay up. We're from the IRS and we're here to help you."

Christ, what an unbelievable train wreck this whole thing is.

That's not how it will work. You're correct that one part of the informational section of the site has incorrect subsidy calculations, but the application and certification sections are using correct figures.

Nobody is going to get approved and then told that they have to pay up later. What's happening is people are being told that they will qualify for subsidies and then are denied when they submit a formal application or they are told that they will not qualify but submit applications anyway and find out they do indeed qualify.

It's a massive failure of information, accuracy and incompetence though.

[Frostbit]

Joyce was talking with a cousin from Philly who is a typical Philly Dem and Obama lover. She has been trying to sign up for "Obamacare" for a while and finally made it through the process and got to choosing the plan. There were five she qualified for with a subsidy (she's presently unemployed). None of the plans accept her present providers that she has been established with for years. She is really, really pissed. "I thought we were going to be able to keep our doctors?".

I don't think she will be voting for Obama for the third term. Even if he could run.

[scott]

Joyce was talking with a cousin from Philly who is a typical Philly Dem and Obama lover. She has been trying to sign up for "Obamacare" for a while and finally made it through the process and got to choosing the plan. There were five she qualified for with a subsidy (she's presently unemployed). None of the plans accept her present providers that she has been established with for years. She is really, really pissed. "I thought we were going to be able to keep our doctors?".

I don't think she will be voting for Obama for the third term. Even if he could run.

10 bucks says she'd vote for him all over again. Moonbats are like that.