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PoliticAverse

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Wed Sep 25, 2013, 07:03 PM Sep 2013

D.C.’s Obamacare fail: Prices won’t work until November

Just days away from launch, the District of Columbia's health marketplace is announcing a pretty significant delay.

While the D.C. Health Link will launch a Web site on October 1, shoppers will not have access to the their premium prices until mid-November. The delay comes after the District marketplace discovered "a high error rate" in calculating the tax credits that low- and middle-income people will use to purchase insurance on the marketplace.

The insurance marketplaces, if working as plan, are supposed to spit out an estimate for a tax credit after a shopper enters in some basic information about where she lives and how much she earns. In the District, that won't happen next month. Instead, the eligibility determination will be made "off-line by experts" by early November.

Read the reat at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/25/d-c-s-obamacare-fail-prices-wont-work-until-november/

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D.C.’s Obamacare fail: Prices won’t work until November (Original Post) PoliticAverse Sep 2013 OP
There will be lots of kinks. Not everyone is gonna try to sign up October 1st. mucifer Sep 2013 #1
I'd call the first month a betatest. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #2
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