Health insurers are shutting down for seven months.
It's virtually lights out.
Unless you have a qualifying "life event," you must wait until open enrollment begins Obamacare on November 15.
A product once available year around for Americans to purchase no longer is.The entire industry now runs on the Obamacare schedule.
Perverse incentives written into the law lead to unimaginable outcomes.
As the Associated Press reports,
"The law allows insurers to keep selling all year.
But it also creates the conditions prompting them to stop.
The law, which requires nearly all Americans to be insured or pay a fine, bans insurers from rejecting customers because of poor health.
The companies say that makes it too risky to sell to individuals year-around."
Only those who get married, move to another state, have a baby, lose a job, age out of their parent's health plan or experience some other qualifying life event will be able to get individual insurance.
Otherwise insurers are "closed for business".
So what about health insurance agents?
Are they out of work for seven months?
The Obama administration never wanted the agent industry to survive.
The whole point of the law was everyone would eventually get coverage through Obama's exchange system.
The government exchange and the government call centers would become the new "agents" along with Acorn-like "navigators" with little training, no background checks and access to lots of private personal financial and medical data.
Agents and brokers are considered an unnecessary expense.
One health insurance agent quoted by the AP, says he only learned a couple of weeks ago that insurers were cutting off all new plans:
"It's lousy communication out there...If we don't know, my God, how do they expect other people to know? It's terrible."
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