This updates Tuesday's post, "Federal-State Health Insurance High-Risk Pools: A Mixed Bag".
The Federal Government has installed a web site for you and your clients to locate instructions about how to sign up for Health Insurance Risk Pools, including applications to sign up if you live in a State that is accepting applications: www.healthcare.gov. It is reportedly due to become operational on the date of this post, July 1, 2010. I tested this link while writing this update, and I found the link operational when I tested it.
However, all the web links in the world may not speed up enrollment. Again, resources are available to you and your clients to search your State's level of receptivity to the Health Insurance High Risk Pool and they are identified in Tuesday's post here. They include, for example, www.naic.org to search the site of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and www.floir.com to search the Florida Insurance Commissioner (Office of Insurance Regulation) site in particular.
Approximately "29 states and the District of Columbia" will reportedly begin enrollment in August, if then. The remaining 21 States reportedly will begin enrollment sooner than that, these being the States that have asked the Federal Government to run the Health Insurance High Risk Pool in their States: "Administration officials said people who apply by July 15 will begin receiving coverage by Aug. 1." Noam N. Levey, "'High-Risk' Pool Medical Insurance Program Set to Begin" (latimes.com, Thursday, July 1, 2010).
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