HIX and Obamacare

One thing we can always agree on, the federal government is in a class by themselves when it comes to redundancy and coming up with creative (and not so creative) acronyms for another bureaucratic process. Meet HIX. Health Insurance Exchange will now be referred to as HIX. One can imagine the looks you will get when you tell your friends you work for HIX. The exchanges are supposed to use one application process to help consumers find out whether they are eligible for health coverage subsidies or for exemptions from the PPACA "shared responsibility" health insurance ownership mandate. Life Health Pro One application. The 21 page application linked above. Yes, that should make it simple. Something like form 1040 + Schedule A + Schedule B + Schedule C all rolled in to one. Don't you just love the term "shared responsibility"? Makes it sound like we are just one big family. Or it takes a village . . . Now take a look at who is involved in helping you find a plan and determining if you are even eligible. An exchange program "Data Services Hub" will help exchanges get eligibility information and check applications by pulling data from the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Peace Corps and the federal Office of Personnel Management. The Peace Corps? Or as the prez calls it, Peace Corpse. With that many agencies ...
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