Clearing the ObamaTax Spindle

■ As we recently reported, getting off an ObamaPlan is almost a hard as getting onto one:"When there is something that needs to be changed on the policy through the marketplace, no one seems to know how to fix it — not people at the marketplace nor their supervisors."Mr and Mrs Carpenter may have had it easy, though, compared to the plight of Florida resident Melissa Battles:"When I tried to enroll my entire family... it is very convoluted and it takes a very long time to enroll.”But enroll she did, and eventually even qualified for a subsidy. Soon after, though, she was fortunate enough to find a new job - complete with benefits, no less - so she "contacted her insurer, Florida Health Care Plans, to terminate her policy. They told her she could not disenroll from her policy with them, instructing her to do it with the marketplace."Well, we know how well that worked out for the Carpenters, not to mention Larry Basich. After multiple calls, she was finally able to cancel her coverage (maybe), but is stuck paying for at least an extra month's premiums for a plan she doesn't want or need.What a bargain.■ "Bill Hobson" (not his real name, for reasons well-explained at the link) has a different sort of problem:"I've had individual health insurance policies since 1989 ... As with most folks, I saw my premiums go up incrementally over the years as age and health care costs rose, but nothing like what happened in the past year."So, he made the entirely rational decision to se...
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