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Motown_Johnny

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3. Start with the obvious lie
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 11:27 PM
Apr 2014

"It is all closed down" is a lie.


The open enrollment period has ended, but not everything is closed down. Medicaid still accepts new enrollees, so anyone who qualifies can still get insurance that way.

There is also a "change of life" clause. So if someone loses insurance because of something like changing jobs, then she/he can gain coverage through healthcare.gov.


Yes, many people can't enroll until November 15th (I think). The idea behind it is to keep people from waiting until they are sick or injured and then buying insurance. They need to do it before then.

If we just had single payer, this would not be an issue. This problem is caused by a far to conservative approach to insurance reform. Obamacare isn't liberal enough to be a good law, it is just head and shoulders above what Nixon signed and we had been forced to live with for so long.


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