Obamacare horror story debunked by Seattle Times columnist

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4. So does this mean WA state will be taking back the 8000 letters they sent, including

the one to Sanford, which states that the calculations were incorrect. Will this reporter be "debunking" the other 7,999 and telling the state how wrong they were, and are?

The state says he does NOT qualify for Medicare and sent her a letter telling her this. This reporter says he does. Wonder who is going to win? The reporter also fails to note that "compounded" drugs are covered in hospital settings, but not necessarily at home. (I notice he cleverly substituted the word "prescription", but that's not what she said). And the state has acknowledged problems with the website, and that they are addressing them. Did the reporter use the screwed up website to make these calculations?

One of these reporters is a liar, or the situation is a lot less clear than either one of them is telling us. That does not detract from the fact that Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, but it does lead one to believe that a lot of people are sticking their big fat noses in someone else's personal business after she was made a public example by the President, and many of them seem to only see what they want to see, regardless of the facts. Most of which are none of their business.

Thousands get wrong subsidies data from state health exchange
Washington Healthplanfinder said Friday that a calculator on its website mistakenly overestimated tax credits for about 6,000 applications that cover about 8,000 people.
By Amy Snow Landa

About 8,000 Washington residents who are purchasing health insurance on the state’s fledgling exchange marketplace may be getting less of a subsidy than they thought they had coming to help pay for it.

The exchange, called the Washington Healthplanfinder, said Friday that a calculator on its website mistakenly overestimated tax credits for about 6,000 applications that cover about 8,000 people, said Michael Marchand, communications director at the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, which operates Healthplanfinder.

“The exchange is very disappointed to have discovered this issue, and we find the situation unacceptable,” exchange CEO Richard Onizuka said in a statement. “Our staff will not stop working until we have notified all those affected and helped each and every one of our customers to ensure they have the correct tax-credit amount and can choose the best plan to meet their needs and budget.”

The discrepancy between the tax-credit amount that the website calculated for some people and the amount they are actually eligible to receive varies by applicant, said Michael Marchand, communications director at the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, which operates Healthplanfinder. “For some people, it’s pennies a month. For others, it’s much more,” he said.
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