is today the deadline day!?

[haaaylee]

is today the last day for signing up before the penalty? is everyone here signing up?

"The ACA individual mandate allows Americans to be uninsured for up to three months throughout the year. This means those who plan to wait to the last second can buy health insurance on Feb. 15 and avoid making their January and February premium payments without violating the mandate. For those people who are unlikely to use their health insurance much, if at all, it's a money-saving maneuver. It's also the reason why we saw enrollment double in the final few weeks of the sign-up period earlier this year. I'd expect something similar to happen again beginning in late January and heading into the Feb. 15 deadline."

does this mean i dont have to do it today?

 

[Deborah K]

What does the website say about a deadline, if anything?

 

[dannno]

Your post indicates that Feb 15 is the last day to signup.

 

[haaaylee]

Your post indicates that Feb 15 is the last day to signup.

that was meant to be a question. everywhere else says today.

 

[lib3rtarian]

Dec. 15, 2014 – Last date to enroll for coverage starting on Jan. 1, 2015.
Jan. 15, 2015 – Last date to enroll for coverage starting on Feb. 1, 2015.
Feb. 15, 2015 – Last date to enroll for coverage for 2015.

If you still don't have coverage by Feb 16th, you will have to pay a fine. Fine is $325 or 2% of your income, whichever is higher.

 

[Zippyjuan]

California was having "website issues" again and extended their signup period. Seems other states may be offering extensions too. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102269082

More extensions as Obamacare deadline looms

A key deadline for signing up for Obamacare insurance got a bit squishier Monday, as the nation's biggest insurance marketplace gave some slack to customers enrolling over the phone, and several individual states granted all their customers more time.

Monday is the deadline for people in most of the United States to sign up for individual and family Obamacare insurance plans that take effect Jan. 1.

If people don't meet that deadline, or some of the later ones this week set by individual states, they will have to wait until Feb. 1 at the earliest for their insurance to go into effect.

By midday, the federal insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov, which serves two-thirds of the U.S., appeared to be working smoothly, as did a number of other state-run exchanges.

Nonetheless, within hours, a number of state-run exchanges had effectively extended their Monday deadlines in the face of strong demand, among them California, whose marketplace has the largest number of Obamacare enrollees in the United States

California's exchange will give applicants who began the sign-up process by midnight Monday until midnight Sunday to finish enrollment, according to officials. The extension is being granted on the honor system—the exchange won't be auditing applicants to see if they actually met the criteria.

"We know we've got a lot of people in the pipeline," a spokesman told CNBC.com Monday evening. The spokesman noted that in the past eight days, as the deadline approached, Covered California exchange had signed up 42,000 people, which is more than 80 percent of the number of people who signed up in the first two-and-a-half weeks of enrollment.

"We've just seen a real strong surge," the spokesman said.

Monday remained the deadline for signing up online at HealthCare.gov.

But late in the day, the agency that runs that site announced a grace period for people who were trying to start or finish an application or enroll.

"As we have anticipated, we are seeing very high consumer demand on HealthCare.gov and at the call center for people looking to meet the deadline," said a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

"Because the call center is experiencing longer-than-normal wait times, some callers are being asked to leave their contact information so they do not have to wait," the spokesman said. "We will call them back at a convenient time starting tomorrow and if they select a plan their coverage will still begin on January 1. Consumers can also shop for coverage and select a plan on HealthCare.gov anytime until midnight Pacific time tonight."

New York's exchange had last week extended its deadline from Monday until next Saturday. The exchange cited snowstorms that slammed the western part of the state recently.

Several other states—Massachusetts, Idaho, Rhode Island, Maryland and Washington—already had extended deadlines as well, to as late as Dec. 23 in some cases.

More at link.