The Obama administration moved Tuesday to cut off health insurance for up to 310,000 people who signed up through the HealthCare.gov system unless they can provide documents in the next few weeks showing they are U.S. citizens or legal residents.
Those individuals have until Sept. 5 to send in additional information that could confirm they are in the U.S. legally, a condition of using the online insurance exchanges to obtain coverage.
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the 2010 Affordable Care Act, said they would tell insurers to terminate health policies for people who don't respond, starting Sept. 30.
CMS and its contractors are still trying to dig out from technological flaws with HealthCare.gov. Millions of users had difficulties using the site to shop for insurance when it launched last fall, but deeper problems remain within the system, including the ability to use databases held by various federal agencies to check people's eligibility for coverage.
Federal officials have said the application system wasn't able to determine citizenship and immigration status for almost one million people of the 5.4 million who had obtained plans through HealthCare.gov by the time the main enrollment period closed in mid-April, because the information in their application didn't match the data the federal government had on file.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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These people must not have ever gone to school and learned how things work ! they are a bunch of takers and this country does not need more of this type person !
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