The solution was an autoenroll into public insurance for anyone who does not choose or have private insurance.

Do you all remember HAMP, the program that was supposed to help homeowners avoid foreclosure?  Do you remember the kinds of problems people had just getting through, how many times they were told their information hadn't been received, the many times people had to submit the same documentation?

Do you remember how people were told that while the modification process was underway, they should stop making their mortgage payments, only to find out months later that their banks had started foreclosure proceedings, or they were told they first had to pay all the back payments, with tons of servicing charges?

Now, think about the anecdotal reports of people having to create multiple profiles on healthcare.gov, because the system didn't recognize the profile they had already entered.  And think about the people who did get in, finally, who put a plan into their "cart" but hadn't officially decided or enrolled or submitted the application.

Maybe you'd better sit down...

From Lambert at Corrente, via a WaPo article:

    In Pennsylvania, Charles Roes­sler, 64*, tried to apply three ways: online, through a call center and on paper. The retired computer salesman has decided on a health plan but hasn't been able to sign up via any of the methods because no one has been able to verify his subsidy.

    During his most recent attempt, on Monday, he asked a call center representative to delete duplicate applications but was told that the center lacked the authority. "We're being told that you can go online or enroll through the call center," he said. "Well, no, not really. . . . I'm just inches away from the finish line."

And worse (via a comment from a naked capitalism post):

   So... I was one of the lucky (?) few who actually managed to establish a "profile" early after the roll-out of healthcare.gov. But like others, once I got into the site, it was rather useless. I found a lot of plans but few of them had the specific benefits detailed fully. So I was clicking on a lot of different plans to do some comparison shopping, knowing full well that even if I ultimately was gonna go with an exchange plan, I certainly was not ready (or informed enough) to choose which plan would be best. I logged on after that, once or twice, and couldn't get past the blank page that told me I was logged in but offered me nowhere to go.

    Yesterday I logged in, maybe 3 weeks since my last attempt, to discover that I have an "application" on file. Somehow the system has determined that I chose one of the plans I was looking at and locked me into it. Mind you, the site tells me I haven't yet completed the application, but nonetheless this incomplete application has me locked into a plan I did not choose. On the live chat, I told "Michael" of the problem and told him he needed to clear that plan from my profile so that I could look at others. He said he could not. He told me I have to "pay to start the plan" then call ARC (I assume that's the insurer offering the plan I didn't choose) personally to cancel it.

    I told him that was ridiculous, that I would not "pay to start" a plan I don't want not "call to cancel it." I suggested that someone needed to fix this BS and said goodbye, logging off without waiting for another worthless reply.

And consider this gem, that probably very few people are aware of::

Although there are ten categories of essential health benefits that must be included in the coverage, the insurers are allowed to vary the benefits within each of the ten categories as long as they remain actuarially equivalent. Imagine the calculating tool that would be required to compare plan coverage. It would challenge the Obamacare exchange computer systems in complexity.

The bottom line? Because of private health plan chicanery, it is impossible to know what expenses you may face in the next year. But if you develop a major disorder, there is a great risk that you will have to pay more than the out-of-pocket limit that is posted on the exchange plan descriptions.

Add to this that a number of the companies offering plans on the exchange haven't supplied the required comparisons between plans for coverage of specific conditions.

Despite the fact that it had been shown to have overwhelming popularity with the public (around 70%)in poll after poll for at least 15 years.

How long do you - anyone in the room, please - think the subsidies will continue for those feckless, worthless poors?  Hmmm?

How about asking the people formerly receiving food stamps (you know, "subsidies" so they can eat) before Republicans and Democrats alike voted to, you know, cut them off.  People will buy health insurance while hunger stalks the land?

The solution was an autoenroll into public insurance for anyone who does not choose or have private insurance.

Surely you don't just assume providers that currently accept Medicare or Medicaid patients would be OK w/a potential large influx of varied age patients into their practice along w/the unpredictability (making appts, canceling appts, volume)?  That's why the issue of narrow-networks talked about here exists.

Further, what would CMS have paid these providers?  The same or new (higher/lower) rates?  How would that have worked out in Congress when for as long one can remember rates have either stayed the same or gone up only slightly?  What if I'm a doc that only handles Medicare patients and I see a doc willing to take on the burden of these auto-enrollees getting more than I do?  Does everyone get a raise now?

Where was congressional support to pay for all these tax-payer costs going to come from?

Washington (CNN) - Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out.

In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a resolution to the floor to block implementation of the grandfather rule, warning that it would result in canceled policies and violate President Barack Obama's promise that people could keep their insurance if they liked it.

The Dems own this Charlie Foxtrot Tango lock, stock, and barrel.  Obamacare passed the senate with every Repub voting against the disaster, and passed the house against bipartisan opposition with only Dems voting in favor.

If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.  Period.

A big fat lie.

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  Period.

A big fat lie.

$2,500 premium savings for a family of four.

Hardy har har.