https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/12/31/report-only-half-of-new-obamacare-enrollees-in-17-states-have-paid-first-month-of-premiums/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:57:24 -0400<![CDATA[No way to know yet if the federal exchange is also seeing a 50 percent payment rate system-wide, but if it is, we&#8217;re looking at close to 500,000 people whose new coverage will begin tomorrow in some sort of limbo. Or maybe more, actually: At least one insurance company is seeing payment rates closer to 35 percent, and the Journal found one man who signed up in late November who still hasn&#8217;t been billed yet by his new insurer. That&#8217;s the fruit of chaos imposed on the industry by Obama and HHS in moving around deadlines haphazardly to protect themselves politically. They moved the sign-up deadline back nine days, to Christmas Eve, and then they &#8220;suggested&#8221; that the payment deadline be moved back to January 10th, all but forcing insurers to cover people retroactively. Expect a new &#8220;suggestion&#8221; for them to move the payment deadline back further into January, as some insurers have already done, if that 500,000 can&#8217;t get their acts together in time to pony up the 10th.]]>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:31:16 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/12/31/report-only-half-of-new-obamacare-enrollees-in-17-states-have-paid-first-month-of-premiums-n186683