Obamacare signup site to be shut down for 12 hours nearly every Sunday of open enrollment

[dalton99a]

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Obamacare signup site to be shut down for 12 hours nearly every Sunday of open enrollment
BY Laura Santhanam September 22, 2017 at 5:29 PM EDT

The federal government plans to shut down Healthcare.gov on all but one Sunday morning during open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, according to Department of Health and Human Services materials first reported by Kaiser Health News.

HHS made the announcement during a webinar training session with assisters who help enrollees sign up for individual plans, Kaiser Health News reporter Phil Galewitz Friday.

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The department has already planned to shorten open enrollment season by 45 days — running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, 2017 for 2018 coverage. During the previous enrollment period, people had twice as much time to enroll for individual health insurance.

Linda Blumberg, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, said this decision for reduced hours on top of that hurts people with inflexible work schedules and limited access to Internet and services.

[elleng]

1. and Congress MUST be informed about this.

[Iliyah]

2. It will survive this bullshit.

Obamacare will live and evolve - for everyone in the good ole USA.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I f the ACA survives the Donald and GOP will do everything

in their power to kill it and more Americans only in a slower, less direct way. They are evil sociopaths.

[cbreezen]

4. You should also post this in LBN.

Posting it only in GD guarantees it will be blown off by too many DU folks.

YMMV.

[dalton99a]

5. It's older than 12 hours now

Thanks for the suggestion