Obamacare Funding for Patients with Pre-existing Conditions Runs Low … Another Miscalculation of Obamacare

 

More promises of Obamacare ending in disappointment. Money running low for Obamacare funding for patients with pre-existing conditions. Of the original $5 billion appropriated for the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, about $2.36 billion remains available for the last three quarters of 2013. Enough only to continue coverage for those already in the pools, according to administration estimates.  The plan was supposed to last until 2014. Just yet another miscalculation of Obamacare.

Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from a program designed to help them because funding is running low.

Obama administration officials said Friday that the state-based “high-risk pools” set up under the 2010 health-care law will be closed to new applicants as soon as Saturday and no later than March 2, depending on the state.

But they stressed that coverage for about 100,000 people who are now enrolled in the high-risk pools will not be affected.

“We’re being very careful stewards of the money that has been appropriated to us and we wanted to balance our desire to maximize the number of people who can gain from this program while making sure people who are in the program have coverage,” said Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. “This was the most prudent step for us to take at this point in time.”

The program, which was launched in summer 2010, was always intended as a temporary bridge for the uninsured. But it was supposed to last until 2014. At that point, the health-care law will bar insurers from rejecting or otherwise discriminating against people who are already sick, enabling such people to buy plans through the private market.

From the start, analysts questioned whether the $5 billion that Congress appropriated for the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan — as the program is called — was sufficient.

Initial fears that as many as 375,000 sick people would swamp the pools and bankrupt them by 2012 did not pan out. This is largely because, even though the pools must charge premiums comparable to those for healthy people, the plans sold through them are often expensive.



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  • Comments

    2 Responses to “Obamacare Funding for Patients with Pre-existing Conditions Runs Low … Another Miscalculation of Obamacare”

    1. A Texas Grandfather on February 16th, 2013 6:05 pm

      Since the Demorats in congress didn’t write the bill and the way it was pushed through without anyone reading it, should anyone be suprised that it does not come anywhere close to performing as advertised.

      This is nothing but junk legislation designed to destroy the healthcare system in place in the USA.

      John Roberts should be removed from his office for rescueing this legislation.

    2. Super dave on February 17th, 2013 8:29 am

      John roberts laughed all the way to the bank on this one. As with all obama cronies, bought and paid for.

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