ObamaCare Application Form Isn’t Simple After All
The much-derided 21-page application was for families. It is now down to 11 pages, thanks to a trick. Eight pages in the longer application called for filling in information for four additional family members. The new form cuts these pages but says that if you have children, “make a copy of Step 2: Person 2 (pages 4 and 5) and complete.” The work required of the applicant remains the same.
It seems like one of cases where, you need enough details in the application process to prevent fraud, at the same time, if people have to go through so many hurdles, I suppose, they won’t want to apply for it, making ObamaCare less effective!
I quote : “Applicants may be further disturbed when they encounter, on the signature page, this message: “We’ll check your answers using information in our electronic databases and databases from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security, the Department of Homeland Security, and/or a consumer reporting agency. If the information doesn’t match, we may ask you to send us proof.” This could only mean that they have more information on us. That said, has anyone been following the story on the IRS?
The whole IRS story scares me. The type of incompetency present in that sector, could you imagine what you might get from Obama Care due to incompetency.
Pretty soon you will hear about cases where conservative groups were denied access to ObamaCare.
Do they have a website or an youtube video that explains how the whole operation works?
As with most things, I feel that overtime people will get over it by seeking the necessary help to fill out the forms, just like probably any other entitlement programs.
Zeres is right.
But that only increases the cost of compliance, effectively shifting the savings through “bureaucratic efficiency” we were promised off of the program and onto the consumer.
It’s so exciting to see little tricks like this. I wonder if there is someone who literally gets paid to come up with stuff like this.
Eleven pages isn’t unmanageable for the average person to fill. The problem is how easy it is for the lawmakers to change up these requirements so easily.
How long are other entitlement program applications? I don’t think this should be an issue to ponder much about. The bigger issue is the effectiveness of the service and prevent people from taking advantage of the program.
Turner’s current career is complaining about obamacare so an editorial nitpicking about an application process that’s still in development isn’t a surprise. I suspect the biggest surprise to most readers and posters here is that the program will roll out and after a few kinks, it will turn out lots of people who previously couldn’t afford decent coverage will get coverage.
the government will never make their forms easy. One reason is probably because they want as much irrelevant info about our lives as possible.
And the forms from an insurance company are any less complicated to complete. Everyone needs to get real, this is insurance we are talking about.