Health Insurance Denied in Mississippi : Insurers Opt Out

Who voted for this president that brought us ObamaCare? Worse, who voted for him the second time so he can make sure we all will know the feeling of helplessness associated with dependency and poverty. ObamaCare will make sure we all get what we deserve according to the progressive agenda.

What rational did the voters use when they were in the booth to pull the lever for Mr Obama a second time, and the progressive socialist liberal Democrats that brought us so much pain in there first four years? Were they asleep? Where was the common sense? Was any native intelligence used to decide that failure on domestic and foreign policy was a good thing? Has anyone turned on the lights at home? Apparently 10's of millions are just happy living in the dark.

Wait, maybe they didn't know that the economy was in free fall and that most of the world was on fire? Maybe they don't know that unemployment is getting worse every day and that just because their pay check is smaller and the work force in their company has been reduced and their hours have been increased doesn't really mean our country is headed in the wrong direction?

No matter, 'I can't worry about this stuff, Obama said he was in our corner and that's good enough for me, besides I just got a message on my Phone, the party for Friday is a go.'

Life is good.

Federal Health Insurance Exchanges May Skip Most of Mississippi
Source: "Federal Health Insurance Marketplace May Skip Much of Miss.," Clarion Ledger, June 20, 2013.
June 26, 2013

People in 36 of Mississippi's 82 counties may not be able to buy health insurance through the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October, says the Associated Press.

• Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says two insurers have announced offerings so far, planning to serve 46 counties.
• Unless more companies sign up or the existing companies expand their plans, consumers in the remaining counties won't be able to buy health insurance through the online exchange.
• "I don't know what to tell you about the other 36 counties," says Chaney. "You're just out of luck."

That means people in these counties won't be able to use federal tax credits offered to consumers with incomes of between 133 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level. That's up to about $46,000 for an individual and about $94,000 for a family of four, with those at the top end getting little or no subsidy.

People who don't buy insurance are required to pay a $95-a-year penalty starting in 2014. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Treasury Department couldn't immediately say whether people would be penalized in counties without offerings.

Under the federal health care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010, every state is required to have an online marketplace so people can get coverage starting in January 2014, much of it federally subsidized. A 2012 study by the Mississippi Center for Health Policy had projected that as many as 275,000 Mississippians could gain insurance through exchanges, with 230,000 of those benefitting from federal tax credits that could total $900 million a year.