Comments on: Health Plans Get Creative Skirting the ACA. And that Means Buyer Beware

Comments on: Health Plans Get Creative Skirting the ACA. And that Means Buyer Beware https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/ Blogging about health insurance coverage, insurance markets, and how people are affected by insurance reform Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: You Don’t Know Who You Are Dealing With: Unscrupulous Broker Tries to Sell Us Short-Term Health Insurance - Center on Health Insurance Reforms https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-21022 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:17:30 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-21022 […] noted in our previous blog posts (here and here), short-term policies are not regulated by the ACA, and don’t need to comply with […]

]]> By: One Way Insurers Could Improve Marketplace Risk Pools? Stop Cannibalizing Their Own Business - Center on Health Insurance Reforms https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-20943 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:01:52 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-20943 […] written about short-term health insurance on CHIRblog before, noting that these policies are not regulated by the ACA, and thus don’t need to comply […]

]]> By: Megan McKinney https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-13054 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:53:06 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-13054 I called Blue Cross Blue Shield personally about this plan and they immediately told me have would have to pay the 1% penalty on my tax return. And when I look at the plan on the website it states clearly that this plan does not comply. I live in arkansas.

]]> By: Insurers Capitalize On Mass Obamacare Confusion To Dupe Consumers Into Buying Junk Health Plans | Omaha Free Press https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-7245 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:31:07 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-7245 […] while consumers remain confused about reform. For instance, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield has been offering a policy called the Essential Blue Freedom Plan. BCBS has been promoting this policy as “full […]

]]> By: Douglas Perlman https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-5307 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:08:04 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-5307 My law firm is investigating allegations of health insurance companies failing to disclose that some new policies they issue do not comply with the ACA. Additionally, they may have duped their policy holders into abandoning a policy that could have been “grandfathered” in, for a non-compliant policy that cannot be grandfathered in.

If this has happened to you, please email me at douglas@rastegarlawgroup.com.

]]> By: Health Insurance Options for Self-Employed Under Affordable Care Act | Debt Kid https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-5124 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:13:13 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-5124 […] advocates at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms warn that while some younger, healthier applicants could benefit in the short term, consumers […]

]]> By: What the Self-Employed Need to Know About Obamacare - Informant Daily https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-5064 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:17:28 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-5064 […] advocates at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms warn that while some younger, healthier applicants could benefit in the short term, consumers […]

]]> By: Lori Smith https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-4790 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:26:19 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-4790 Thanks for the information….was wondering why my broker was in such a rush to talk to me on the phone……..and you are right, there is no information for me to compare so they are taking advantage of these “deadlines” and the lack of information…..have a feeling this applies to me in Pennsylvania.

]]> By: pam https://chirblog.org/health-plans-get-creative-at-shirking-the-aca/#comment-4703 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:38:15 +0000 http://chirblog.org/?p=1417#comment-4703 I received a letter from Florida Blue urging to to sign up now before the ACA takes full effect and promising me possible lower prices than I will get from the ACA. I threw it away. Luckily I am informed thanks to these e-mail updates I am getting.

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