They turn on Fox News, look around for prying ears, and silently start repeating the "N" word under their breath. This is eventually what spills out when they start talking aloud.
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Yikes: Government Sends Wrong Tax Information to Nearly One Million Obamacare Users
Katie Pavlich | Feb 20, 2015
Katie Pavlich
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We all knew Obamacare would make tax season a nightmare for all of us, and it has, but the government just made it a lot worse by sending the wrong tax information to nearly one million customers.
The Obama administration revealed Friday that it sent about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers a tax form containing the wrong information, and asked them to hold off on filing their 2014 taxes.
Here is the long-winded, complicated and confusing explanation from Healthcare.gov:
If you enrolled in a plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace for 2014, you should?ve received an important tax statement in the mail, called Form 1095-A. This statement has information you need to fill out your 2014 federal income tax return.
Most people received a correct Form 1095-A. However, if we contact you because your Form 1095-A is incorrect, here's why. Some forms included the monthly premium amount of the second lowest cost Silver plan for 2015 instead of 2014, which needs to be corrected. The incorrect amount is listed in Part III, Column B of the Form 1095-A. We're working quickly to resolve this and any other issues with the 1095-A forms. This does not mean that your tax credit was incorrect; this is purely an error in what was printed on the form.
If your form is affected by this issue, you?ll get a call and email from us in the next few days, and you will get a message in your Marketplace account here on HealthCare.gov. Once you log in, you should select your 2014 application, and then select "Tax forms." You will see a message letting you know if your 1095-A form is being corrected. This is also where you will find your corrected form when it is completed. When the corrected form is ready, we?ll send a message to your Marketplace account. All corrected forms should be available by early March.
Beyond the bureaucratic, "Some forms included the monthly premium amount of the second lowest cost Silver plan for 2015 instead of 2014, which needs to be corrected. The incorrect amount is listed in Part III, Column B of the Form 1095-A," what exactly does Healthcare.gov mean when it states, "any other issues"? Will there be more? When will they find these other issues? How many man hours will it take, from federal government employees and private citizens filing their taxes, to work out these "other issues"?
This screw up comes after months of leaving sensitive user information and data open to hackers and identity thieves on Healthcare.gov and the website is still experiencing problems.
In the final day leading up to Obamacare?s sign-up deadline, the website was once again hit with technical glitches that prevented people from signing up for health insurance.
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The problems stemmed from a function on the site that verifies people?s income to determine if they qualify for federal subsidies, and if so, how much. Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the issues on Saturday, saying some people weren?t able to submit their applications because the website couldn?t verify their income.
To date, the administration has spent a total $2.2 billion to build and repair the website.
You'd think with a $2.2 billion website and 9,000 new IRS employees, this whole process would be done right the first time. But alas, big government means big problems and big headaches for people simply trying to comply with tax law.
Obamacare enrollment extended after technical issues
(Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)
By Ellen Jean Hirst
Chicago Tribune
contact the reporter This article is related to: Health Insurance,
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
People who tried to sign up for health insurance on Healthcare.gov, but couldn't finish, have another week
February 16, 2015, 4:22 PM
Consumers who tried to enroll in Obamacare last weekend but couldn't finish because of technical problems will have another week to complete the task, Department of Health and Human Services officials said Monday..
The new deadline for enrolling in federally mandated health insurance has been extended through Feb. 22 for thousands of people who tried to sign up in the last three days of open enrollment on Healthcare.gov, officials said. Previously, consumers had to sign up by Sunday , for coverage that begins March 1.
Going without health insurance in 2015 carries a penalty. Come tax season, uninsured consumers will have to pay a fee of $325 or 2 percent of their income, whichever is greater.
A few reasons that qualify people for the extension include: longer than normal call center wait times and a glitch on the site verifying income. Officials also said that individuals who experience "life-changing events," including getting married, having a baby, or losing job-based coverage, can always apply.
While Illinoisans experienced problems with the federal portal, the Department of Health and Human Services said states that run their exchanges also will extend enrollments for some consumers.
Officials with the department declined to estimate how many people were eligible for the extension, but Enroll America President Anne Filipic said in a statement that the group estimates as many as 25,000 people in the 11 states it covers, including Illinois, could be eligible to complete the process during the special enrollment period.
A Get Covered Illinois spokesman said traffic on its informational site increased to 200,000 visitors this past weekend and about 21,000 people dialed into its call center. As of Feb. 11, more than 300,000 individuals in Illinois had signed up on Healthcare.gov, federal officials said.
The problems are reminiscent of technical issues that marked the launch of the Affordable Care Act's first open-enrollment period in October 2013, when the federal website was barely functioning and wait times for the call center were sometimes hours long. The technical issues from this weekend appear to be on a much smaller scale.
"The special enrollment period represents a major opportunity for Illinois' uninsured," said David Elin, Illinois State Director for Enroll America and the Get Covered America campaign. "It is critical that everyone who started the enrollment process but was unable to finish it act immediately to complete their enrollment ... Get Covered America will continue reaching out to uninsured Illinoisans who may qualify for this opportunity to answer their questions and encourage them to enroll if they are eligible. "
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I think Hammer is spot on with this bet.
Dependency is way up and labor force participation is way down. In fact, dependency is the fastest growing sector of the economy. We have increased the number of people on SNAP (what used to be called food stamps) by 16 million, the number on Social Security disability by 1.5 million (a 20 percent increase), and increased the number of people on Medicaid by 9 million even before the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare (we are still trying to count up those new government dependents; the new total should be about 12 million more people on Medicaid). The more people who are dependent on the government, the better. Obamacare is building on that model. Now millions more people rely at least partially on the government to pay for their health care. Are those people ever going to vote for a smaller (Republican) government? I don?t think so. We used to just be able to scare seniors into voting for us by telling them that Republicans wanted to cut their Social Security, but now we have over 160 million people getting some kind of government check. That is over half the country (about 52 percent) and means there is a potential majority of voters we can bribe into voting our way by promising them bigger benefits.
You cant make this shit up.
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Dependency is way up and labor force participation is way down. In fact, dependency is the fastest growing sector of the economy. We have increased the number of people on SNAP (what used to be called food stamps) by 16 million, the number on Social Security disability by 1.5 million (a 20 percent increase), and increased the number of people on Medicaid by 9 million even before the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare (we are still trying to count up those new government dependents; the new total should be about 12 million more people on Medicaid). The more people who are dependent on the government, the better. Obamacare is building on that model. Now millions more people rely at least partially on the government to pay for their health care. Are those people ever going to vote for a smaller (Republican) government? I don?t think so. We used to just be able to scare seniors into voting for us by telling them that Republicans wanted to cut their Social Security, but now we have over 160 million people getting some kind of government check. That is over half the country (about 52 percent) and means there is a potential majority of voters we can bribe into voting our way by promising them bigger benefits.
You cant make this shit up.
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THERE ISNT A REPUBLICAN OUT THERE THAT ISN'T A MORON ASSHOLE.........
Bull Shit, you know you crossed a line, suck it up.
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What a bullshit post. You're so full of shit. Hey name the last Republican president in 50 years that reduced the deficit in their term? I'll give you a hint..... that's right, none! Not a fucking one. You have zero support for this crock of shit post but if you keep saying it, it must be true right? 57% approval rate and climbing bitch. To bad you're on the wrong side again as usual.
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Watching Fox and MSNBC have been studied by universities and with no surprise the people who watch them are less informed than the average person.
That is correct with Fox viewers being the most consistently misinformed of all. Pity really.
Add in Obama's executive action of temporary deportation amnesty with the issuing driver?s licenses and Social Security numbers to the illegal immigrants and its a freaking lock Hammer. Hussien is the master at transforming this country. The idiot republicans just stand by and let it happen.
Unreal
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I guess the numbers are correct. Consistently misinformed and clueless. Pity really.
Hope that helps,
FDC
Your sir are the one that is clueless if you think government dependency is not part of the overall plan in the transformation. Keep saying it is not true and maybe it is not. The numbers say otherwise. I am sure you can give some long diatribe to the opposite and call everyone names. If you makes you feel superior.
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