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Hitler Can't Keep His Doctor Either

Hitler Can't Keep His Doctor Either

3:57 AM

Stupid Theoretical HHS Tricks

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI8uSygbEhzJwPxnO4Za05X5vVV7nDkF_euTzpNonh7TpD4BeUxqGzkHUr50q_Plr9zdB2iV6-9fJ1E0UGCQ1lezRR543pshgOK07x54ktrcj2VLpdfD_V12zhPm1znOcgLHIHAoqMG5o/s1600/Face-palm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI8uSygbEhzJwPxnO4Za05X5vVV7nDkF_euTzpNonh7TpD4BeUxqGzkHUr50q_Plr9zdB2iV6-9fJ1E0UGCQ1lezRR543pshgOK07x54ktrcj2VLpdfD_V12zhPm1znOcgLHIHAoqMG5o/s1600/Face-palm.png" width="140" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the one hand, Ms Shecantbeserious relies on licensed (and trained, and <a href="http://insureblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/public-enemy-or-navigator.html" target="_blank">who have been background checked</a>) agents to "push" Exchange policies. On the other hand, she's an idiot: "<a href="http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2014/02/05/cms-updates-exchange-plan-agent-advice?eNL=52f286c0150ba06e4c000045&utm_source=HCRW&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=LifeHealthPro_eNLs&_LID=107687085" target="_blank">[Ms Kathy] strongly suggests that agents and brokers not use 'Marketplace' or 'Exchange' in the name of their businesses or websites ... QHPs cannot discriminate based on disability, age or health needs</a>." As to the first: why the heck not? Far be it from me, a lowly insurance agent, with a measly 30+ years of sales experience, to edumacate The Fair Kathleen on how to market insurance, but that is exactly the kind of product identification you want to encourage. After all, would-be Exchange <strike>victims</strike> customers are looking for, you guessed it, the term "Exchange." As to the second, well, that's pretty dumb, too. Here's a dirty little secret, Kathy: as agents, we don't care who buys a plan from us - old, young, fat, skinny, healthy or sick - we want to, you guessed it again(!), sell insurance. Last I looked, no carrier pays us commissions on plans we don't sell. Perhaps the best part is that these are currently cast as "suggestions." Who wants to bet on their codification? Anyone?</div>

Stupid Theoretical HHS Tricks

On the one hand, Ms Shecantbeserious relies on licensed (and trained, and who have been background checked ) agents to "push" Exch...

12:08 PM

Obamacare Non-Help Line

Did you buy an #Obamacare plan through the #exchange? Have you received your policy or ID <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU25KxPNOWviTm1WMwttb7Fw9iVVGdKmzYjOSCgReb1ZQc0_Pc6ye5ITTh2gt7-DGVfPF2wNsTH6EHB3TsgW_Br_oMnT3kDGr51DSw5KQLRPhH2Dvu3synvw0t5ZVR7YmwnipOi2yXHQ/s1600/obamacare+help+line.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdU25KxPNOWviTm1WMwttb7Fw9iVVGdKmzYjOSCgReb1ZQc0_Pc6ye5ITTh2gt7-DGVfPF2wNsTH6EHB3TsgW_Br_oMnT3kDGr51DSw5KQLRPhH2Dvu3synvw0t5ZVR7YmwnipOi2yXHQ/s1600/obamacare+help+line.jpg" width="141" /></a></div> cards yet? Washington, we may have a problem. <blockquote class="tr_bq">Thousands of Americans who have asked the federal government to fix errors on their Obamacare applications aren’t likely to get solutions anytime soon, according to internal government data obtained by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/healthcaregov-cant-handle-appeals-of-enrollment-errors/2014/02/02/bbf5280c-89e2-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #123457; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Post</a>.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Some 22,000 Americans have filed appeals over errors made while applying for health coverage on HealthCare.gov, the website for Obamacare’s federal exchange, the newspaper reported. Those errors have included being pushed into the wrong program, receiving incorrect subsidies or insurance payments, and being denied coverage entirely.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2014/02/03/obamacare-enrollees-stuck-healthcare-gov-errors/" target="_blank">- Heritage</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey. Mistakes happen. Should be easy to correct, right?</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">But HealthCare.gov’s system won’t allow federal workers to go into enrollment records and make any changes to the applications. Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein wrote. “The Obama administration has not made public the fact that the appeals system for the online marketplace is not working,” the story said, noting that the administration is more focused on other parts of HealthCare.gov that don’t work, such as <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/20/latest-obamacare-bombshell-healthcare-gov-far-complete-payment-system-built/" style="border: 0px; color: #123457; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the payment processing system</a>.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sounds like the Russians built the system.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe they did . .</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency in charge of the Healthcare.gov network, about their concerns last week. Specifically, officials warned that programmers in Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were suspected of inserting malicious code that could be used for cyber attacks, according to U.S. officials familiar with the concerns. </blockquote><div style="border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;">- <a href="http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/" target="_blank">Free Beacon, The Belarus Connection</a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #555555; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;">As my friend Henry says, Oy!</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7em; padding: 0px 0px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div>