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Stuck In The Middle With Dave

Insurance company greed on one side – government indifference and incompetence on the other.  My client?  He’s stuck in the middle with me

You were introduced to R.S. in last week’s post.  Quick summary – R.S. purchased a health insurance policy for himself and his son on the exchange.  The date was February 27th.  He was sitting in my office.  The coverage would, by law, begin on April 1, 2014.  Weeks later he discovered that the insurer, one of the big ones, issued the policy with a January 1st effective date.  Getting three months premium for nothing, the insurer told the client and I that this was our problem not theirs. 

Would the government jump at the opportunity to save over a thousand dollars? 

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April 2, 2014 – My first stop was, of course, healthcare.gov, a website that wasn’t designed to create unsolvable problems, it just does that naturally.  Once I had verified that this situation could not be addressed on the site, I reluctantly called the national frustration number, 1.800.318.2596. 

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