Giving up
I was born
in Missouri. I know that they call themselves the “show me” state, but I never
thought that meant that I’d be required to show the federal government that Big
Mo has been part of the Union since 1821.
But
apparently so, because according to the health insurance marketplace, my immigration
paper work is not in order so I may not, at this time, apply for health
insurance.
And, yes,
I DID check the “US Citizen” button.
Five times, in fact. And each time I was informed that my immigration documents
could not be verified.
But that’s
not the only bug I encountered in my effort to confirm that I cannot afford to
buy insurance on the new Exchange (it’s called an exchange because you exchange
your hard-earned cash with an insurance company for a product of dubious
value). Now, apparently, my wife is married to another woman. But for all you
guys out there with lesbian-sex fantasies, forget it. The woman she’s married
to is herself. I’m not going to get into the potential Freudian aspect of this,
but it would clearly take both a time machine an unusual personality to make that work. Still, the healthcare.gov site is convinced that my
wife is married to herself and I’m married to, well, apparently, no one. So I
guess I’m back on the market in at least one way.
So now
what?
I have not
added up the number of hours I’ve spent on this futile task, but I’ve decided
to take a break. I’ll give them a month to see it they can sort it out and get
this mess of a website working.
I know that
my health insurance goes away December 31. And I know that, on the face of it
anyway, it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to afford to replace it, even if I could
sign up for it. But you know what? Even though it seems like just the other day
it was summer, right now two months sounds like a long time away. I’m putting
this off.
The future
will hold what stresses it may, and I’m out of energy to deal with it. Maybe
next time I try to sign up, my wife won’t be married to herself and I’ll have
two wives.
Hey, with
this computer system, it really could
happen.
posted by Wil | 11:36 AM
4 Comments:
Not to be rude but...
It sure seems like if something can go wrong, you find it.
Your new insurance woes are amazing and annoying.
Keep trying. With all the bugs in the system, eventually you're bound to stumble upon the one where doctor visits are free and they pay YOU $1000 for every new box of sensors...
While my perspective is ACA is an equal rights issue for people with chronic medical conditions like diabetes, there is no denying the issues with the national site which is running the exchanges for all of the red states (and a few blue ones, too) that chose not to run their own exchanges. The problems are a PITA, but eventually they'll be resolved. I'm guessing the beta tests were never conducted, although the news suggests that's because the lawsuits challenging ACA threatened funding and it wasn't started as soon as it needed to be. The take-away is you should keep trying. By the way, today the news came out that you'll have 6 more weeks to enroll.
I think they need to pay you as an official Healthcare.gov tester.
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