Obamacare “Fail” Stories

SharylAttkisson- The White House has helped gather many success stories born of the Affordable Care Act.

Read ACA success stories here.

Many people have undoubtedly been helped: for example, the previously uninsurable with pre-existing conditions.

However, other Americans have been disappointed by Obamacare and believe it has worked against them.

Tell your “fail” stories by clicking “comments” in the horizontal gray bar above on this page or scroll to the very bottom of this page. Please be specific, be nice and stick to the facts. To read the stories, click “comments” or read below.

Read all of my HealthCare.gov reports here.

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The Tortured Process of Adding a Baby

“The following is a story I wrote about what it took to get a baby added to a health insurance policy post ACA. I know it’s long, but somebody should read it:

Back in the olden days (way back before healthcare was reformed so that it would be
affordable) when a baby was born to an insured family we in the insurance industry had to
collect the baby’s name along with his or her date of birth, write that information on a form
provided by the insurance carrier and then fax it to the company. Once that was done we could move on to our next task, whatever it was, because we had hit “send” on the fax machine… and it was done… the baby was added to the policy… after 30 seconds of labor. Mission accomplished. Misione compuito – if you prefer Italian.

I say that the entire process took 30 seconds, but it may have taken 48 or 49 seconds if the fax
machine was slow. And if the client wanted to talk about the weather or work through some post partum issues then the “entire process” may have lasted a few more minutes. But the bottom line is, there was time to talk about the weather or the blues, because the baby was added to the policy… because we hit “send” on the fax machine.

But that was then… and those days are long gone.