Are You Special?

Only special people can buy Obamacare health insurance outside of open enrollment. So if you think you are special, you are now going to have to prove it.

Scamming the Obamacare system could soon get even harder.

Federal health regulators on Tuesday said they plan to screen at least some people who apply for Obamacare health insurance coverage on HealthCare.gov during so-called special enrollment periods in 2017 to verify their eligibility first. - CNBC

In the past you could sneak in without challenge. Game the system in hopes you did not get caught.

Now you will have to prove you are legally entitled to health insurance.

What a novel idea. Why didn't we think of that before?