2014
Delayed receipt of ID cards, long waits on the customer service line, denied claims in the first few weeks of the year, difficulty making a doctors appointment. These are the publicized problems blamed on insurance companies. 😡
But if you want to place blame, look the the Obama administration. During their annual enrollment periods employers typically allow four to six weeks and sometimes longer between the end of enrollment and the effective date of the coverage. Employer enrollments are far less complicated than under Obamacare.
The administration originally set the end of enrollment at December 15 and as unrealistic as that was for a January 1 effective date, the administration then moved the date to December 23. Despite the claim the date was moved in consultation with insurance companies, allowing a week (or two weeks) to process enrollments, generate and distribute ID cards, notify selected physicians and simultaneously process early claims…. is absurd. 😷
So, if your enrollment is screwed up, most of the blame goes to the bureaucrats at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no doubt directed by the administrations political strategists. ‼️
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