CMS has laid the perfect trap: Sign up at healthcare.gov one time in your life and we will never let you go. If you don’t continually re-enroll each and every year, CMS will keep you on the plan that it chooses because, after all, CMS knows what’s best and they always make the best decision.
I already saw this coming. I won’t be part of this type of system, ever. For those caught up with it, I suggest they talk to their banks and block the payment, at least attempt to force them to drop the insurance for lack of payment. This is why I posed the question I did to the Judge. We are letting too many agencies have access to our private medical and banking information. If you don’t renew your policy and they then choose one for you, are they not sharing your information with yet another company without your consent? Is every company providing product for the government website entitled to your medical records at anytime? I mean, what does this even mean: they will choose a policy replacement for you?? Robbie, I imagine it is even harder on those who get subsidized care. If at sometime the person makes more money, the IRS will be scrutinizing why they ever needed the free care to begin with.
Since the penalty is exacted by the IRS, blocking the payment would likely initiate an IRS investigation. This is much more onerous than anyone ever predicted.
This is why I posed the question I did to the Judge. We are letting too many agencies have access to our private medical and banking information. If you don’t renew your policy and they then choose one for you, are they not sharing your information with yet another company without your consent? Is every company providing product for the government website entitled to your medical records at anytime? I mean, what does this even mean: they will choose a policy replacement for you??
Robbie, I imagine it is even harder on those who get subsidized care. If at sometime the person makes more money, the IRS will be scrutinizing why they ever needed the free care to begin with.