January 15, 2014
The AP (1/15) reports that the Obama Administration has again pushed back the deadline for the Affordable Care Act’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, the temporary program that was “supposed to disappear Jan. 1.” Now, because of technical problems with healthcare.gov, the program “will continue to run through the remainder of the health care law’s first open enrollment season, which ends March 31.”
The New York Times (1/15, Pear, Subscription Publication) explains that “Congress had assumed that it would no longer be needed because private insurers would have to accept all applicants and could not charge higher premiums because of a medical condition or history.”
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