{"id":19014,"date":"2013-09-30T19:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19014"},"modified":"2013-10-01T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:07:52","slug":"shaky-launch-for-obamacare-exchanges-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19014\/shaky-launch-for-obamacare-exchanges-looming\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaky Launch for ObamaCare Exchanges Looming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However tonight\u2019s government shutdown\/showdown plays out, tomorrow\u2019s big news is likely to be how well the 51 ObamaCare insurance exchanges are performing.<\/p>\n<p>Projections don\u2019t look pretty, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/30\/us\/as-opening-day-nears-insurance-exchanges-scramble-to-prepare.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the low-lights include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The District of Columbia will not be able to determine online whether people qualify for Medicaid or for a federal subsidy (the difference is crucial)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Nevada, a Spanish-language version of the exchange\u2019s website will not be ready until mid-November<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Maryland, small businesses will not be able to buy insurance for their employees until January<\/p>\n<p>Rocky King, Oregon\u2019s exchange director and winner of the Mr. Honesty award, tells the Times, \u201cI have no idea what this thing\u2019s going to look like on Oct. 1. We could crash and burn and have to close it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll know soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However tonight\u2019s government shutdown\/showdown plays out, tomorrow\u2019s big news is likely to be how well the 51 ObamaCare insurance exchanges are performing. Projections don\u2019t look pretty, according to the New York Times. A few of the low-lights include: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The District of Columbia will not be able to determine online whether people qualify for Medicaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,3007,3308,1829,703,232,1551,35,772],"class_list":["post-19014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-maryland","tag-medicaid","tag-nevada","tag-obamacare","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19075,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions\/19075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}