{"id":19808,"date":"2013-12-23T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19808"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:39:21","slug":"obamacare-enrollment-deadline-extended-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19808\/obamacare-enrollment-deadline-extended-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Enrollment Deadline Extended Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama administration fearing a surge of users trying to enroll in an Obamacare exchange insurance plan ahead of the midnight deadline today, government officials and IT contractors extended the cutoff over the weekend without bothering to issue a public notice.<\/p>\n<p>The new deadline is midnight of Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>For those trying to lock-in coverage by January 1st \u2013 and thus avoid an IRS penalty \u2013 the extension is good news. But for the insurance industry, it\u2019s another unwelcome, unaccountable administrative fiat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extension, said the sources, cannot be overridden by insurance companies if they object to it,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/366985\/administration-extends-deadline-obamacare-sign-through-christmas-eve-eliana-johnson \" target=\"_blank\">National Review Online<\/a>. \u201cIt is the latest of several last-minute, ad hoc rule changes issued by the administration, including last week\u2019s announcement that individuals whose insurance plans were [canceled] may receive an exemption from the Affordable Care Act\u2019s individual mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until Obamacare is repealed and the federal government is divested of its power to dictate \u2013 and change \u2013 so many important terms at its whim, volatility in the health insurance market looks like it\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Obama administration fearing a surge of users trying to enroll in an Obamacare exchange insurance plan ahead of the midnight deadline today, government officials and IT contractors extended the cutoff over the weekend without bothering to issue a public notice. The new deadline is midnight of Christmas Eve. For those trying to lock-in [&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":[3007,3308,1829,35,300],"class_list":["post-19808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808","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=19808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}