The Obamacare screwups keep coming

KUTV:
New babies uninsurable due to healthcare marketplace fumbles
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Federal law does not allow their insurance companies to add the kids directly. Each mother must go back to the healthcare marketplace to add their child.

All three families attempted to add their newborns within the 30-day window of the child being born, as is required, but each was denied.

"The marketplace said it was required we had to go through CHIP," Maggie said.

CHIP stands for the Children's Health Insurance Policy. It is a program offered by the state of Utah to help insure kids whose parents can't afford it. But each of these families do fine for themselves financially so they don't qualify for CHIP.

Still, the healthcare marketplace insisted they apply for CHIP and be denied before they could apply through the marketplace.
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This is another example of the incompetent drafting of the health care law by Democrats.  It gives you absurd outcomes like this.

There is also this:

Surprise: Poorest Obamacare Enrollees Face $530 IRS Tax Bill

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