I filled out an online application six weeks ago on the Washington Health Plan Finder site (https://wahealthplanfinder.org). A week later, I was told that I couldn’t be found as a U.S. citizen and needed to send copies of my driver’s license and a pay stub. For the past two weeks, each time my wife calls, a recording says there are too many callers and to call back another day.
Now, when we go into our account, it shows no application at all. After finally getting to talk to someone at the state site, they said that they couldn’t get into Health Plan Finder and to call back another day.
The deadline for all this to be completed was Dec. 23, according to “Obama-I-Don’t-Care.”
This insurance is not better, not cheaper, and not making life better for anyone, especially not us. Allow a competitive marketplace. Allow consumers access to all insurance companies. Competition drives the price down. It’s the American way. What is so complicated about that?
If government wants to force companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions, then let it be so, but let the market determine the cost. The cost of covering pre-existing conditions will work itself out in the marketplace. We don’t need the government to do it.
