Vermont Health Connect Open Enrollment Proceeds Smoothly; Obamacare Integral to Vermonters
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As open enrollment on Vermont Health Connect enters its second month, the annual process of re-enrolling existing customers and enrolling new Vermonters is going smoothly. More than 20,000 households have been renewed into 2017 health and dental plans and will receive their first 2017 invoice next week. In addition, about 1,000 new applicant households have received an eligibility determination and will be effectuated into 2017 coverage once they pay their first bill.
The State's health insurance marketplace fully expects to meet its goal of ensuring that all customers can use their 2017 health insurance starting on
The first step in the renewal process involved updating the State's system with information from customers, insurance carriers and the federal hub to ensure that customers were mapped to the appropriate 2017 health plans and given state and federal subsidies based on 2017 eligibility thresholds. This step was completed in October. More than 90 percent of renewals were successfully processed through an automated file. The remainder were completed in the following days through a staff renewal form. This performance was three weeks ahead of target. It was also more than three months ahead of last year, the first year the marketplace used the automated renewal process.
The second step involved sending the files to the insurance carriers -
"I'm extremely proud of the team at Vermont Health Connect for ensuring a smooth open enrollment process for Vermonters,"
"Within a couple of hours I received a return phone call and everything was fixed, perfectly," St. Jean said. "The bottom line is my wife and I joined up exactly when we needed to, with the plan we wanted, and the subsidies were put in place. Direct payments were established with a simple phone call. I do monitor my account via the website, and will add that the site is very user friendly."
Amid Congressional Republican calls for repeal of Obamacare, the Governor today also stressed just how integral the law is to tens of thousands of Vermonters who now have health insurance because of it.
Before Obamacare, about 43,000 Vermonters lacked insurance coverage. Since the implementation of the law, that number has been cut by more than half, with over 25,000 Vermonters gaining coverage, which has reduced the state's uninsured rate to an estimated 2.7 percent.
In addition to greatly expanding insurance coverage in
In addition, 130,000 adults and children receive health coverage through
"To put it simply, it would be an absolute disaster if President-elect Trump and
"The healthcare needs of our family of four have been met in a way that we can afford," said
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