Now Aetna: This certainly doesn’t look good for Obamacare

seebell said:

I'm not sure about quickly enroll. There is an open enrollment period for like 2 months at the end of the year. Enrollment outside of this period can occur because of hardship and/or change in life circumstance. Not sure of the exact details. www.healthcare.gov might provide additional info.

How Much Is the Obamacare Penalty? What You'll Pay for Not Having ...

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Oct 31, 2016 - Here's an example: Say you go without health insurance for all of January and February. ... How much the Obamacare penalty costs ... adjusted gross income, or $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, to a maximum of $2,085.

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Qualifying life event: A major event that affects your health insurance needs and qualifies you to make changes to or buy a health plan outside of open enrollment.

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Aetna claimed this summer that it was pulling out of all but four of the 15 states where it was providing Obamacare individual insurance because of a business decision — it was simply losing too much money on the Obamacare exchanges.

Now a federal judge has ruled that that was a rank falsehood. In fact, says Judge John D. Bates, Aetna made its decision at least partially in response to a federal antitrust lawsuit blocking its proposed $34-billion merger with Humana.Aetna threatened federal officials with the pullout before the lawsuit was filed, and followed through on its threat once it was filed. Bates made the observations in the course of a ruling he issued Monday blocking the merger.

Aetna executives had moved heaven and earth to conceal their decision-making process from the court, in part by discussing the matter on the phone rather than in emails, and by shielding what did get put in writing with the cloak of attorney-client privilege, a practice Bates found came close to “malfeasance.”

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Bodhisattva said:

Obviously the solution is to pour more money into this failed program.

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