subsidized health insurance plan from the Obamacare exchange working taxpayers are funding a portion of your premiums. When you bring a baby into the world you need to tell the insurance company and Obamacare.
With regular private insurance, parents just notify the health plan. Insurers will still cover new babies, the administration says, but parents will also have to contact the government at some point later on.
Such changes affect financial assistance available under the law, so the government has to be brought into the loop.
It's not just having a new baby that could create bureaucratic hassles, but other life changes affecting a consumer's taxpayer-subsidized premiums. The list includes marriage and divorce, a death in the family, a new job or a change in income, even moving to a different community.
Insurers say computerized "change in circumstance" updates to deal with family and life developments were supposed to have been part of the federal system from the start.But that feature got postponed as the government scrambled to fix technical problems that overwhelmed the health care website during its first couple of months."It's just another example of 'We'll fix that later,'" said Bob Laszewski, an industry consultant who said he's gotten complaints from several insurer clients. "This needed to be done well before January. It's sort of a fly-by-night approach."
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