{"id":20361,"date":"2014-03-21T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2014-03-21T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:38:51","slug":"maryland-to-extend-obamacare-enrollment-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20361\/maryland-to-extend-obamacare-enrollment-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland to Extend ObamaCare Enrollment Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the feds, now the states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, the state says it\u2019s not an extension of the open enrollment period scheduled to close March 31. Only Marylanders who made an attempt to enroll by March 31 will get more time if they call a state hotline by that day. All four insurers selling on Maryland\u2019s exchange agreed to the special extension,\u201d explains the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/03\/18\/marylands-aca-enrollment-extension-could-be-a-sign-of-things-to-come\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon and Nevada are also weighing whether to grant extensions for enrollment. Like Maryland, their residents have found it extremely difficult to complete the sign-up process for subsidized ObamaCare plans due to glitch-prone public websites.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anyone who\u2019s watched the news since last October knows that the federal exchange \u2013 Healthcare.gov \u2013 has been notoriously difficult to use. So perhaps it\u2019s no wonder that the Obama administration is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303546204579439633528430154 \" target=\"_blank\">granting its own extension<\/a> to allow enrollment to continue after the original drop-dead date.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it\u2019s not an individual\u2019s fault that a government\u2019s website is impossible to use. And it\u2019s unfair in the extreme to turn around and penalize the same person when a government-imposed deadline passes without the mandated sign-up. But perhaps news of an extension would be easier to swallow if it wasn\u2019t grouped with more than 30 other intentional delays that further complicate the law.<\/p>\n<p>The news of enrollment extensions isn\u2019t surprising. In its most basic elements, ObamaCare doesn\u2019t work. But for its supporters propping it up with all kinds of extra-legal maneuvers, the law would collapse under the weight of its failed promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the feds, now the states. \u201cTo be clear, the state says it\u2019s not an extension of the open enrollment period scheduled to close March 31. Only Marylanders who made an attempt to enroll by March 31 will get more time if they call a state hotline by that day. All four insurers selling on [&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":[4467,3308,1829,703,35],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-enroll","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-maryland","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361","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=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}