I have to say after trying to help my self employed girl friend and her kids enroll in the health exchanges for 2 months, and being no closer to being able to actually enroll and pay for coverage, this is looking like it will be a disaster far worse than is being reported now. I thought I had her enrolled, only to have that account disappear with nothing left on who to contact or anyway to login to pay. The health care support still tells us we are victims of glitches. So many kids are trapped between the health care exchanges and medicaid, especially in divorced families, that it is not possible to sort out for months. So her kids who had health insurance will have to go into 2014 without insurance. I would not be surprised if even half the people who used to have health insurance (outside of people who have work policies) will have health insurance on January 1, 2014. And so few new people will benefit, because the subsidies are only for such a narrow and specific situation. An poorer, working people who used to have options for at least some kind of insurance, are now left with nothing. It is so disappointing how this turned out, and I can't imagine what the government is going to do when they realize that so many more people are going to be without insurance to start the year.
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