Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers 490
turbosaab writes "The Obama administration has quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that companies may charge smokers under the new healthcare law. The underlying reason for the limitation is another provision in the health care law that says insurers can't charge older customers more than three times what they charge the youngest adults in the pool. The government's computer system has been unable to accommodate the two. So younger smokers and older smokers must be charged the same penalty, or the system will kick it out. A fix will take at least a year to put in place."
Re:A year? (Score:5, Funny)
Silver, Gold or Platinum?
This is proof that Obama is better than Bush. When color coding was applied to terror threat levels, the Bush Administration failed miserably at taking something as complex as terrorism and boiling it down into 5 colors. The Obama Administration is pure genius because they can take health care insurance, arguably even more complex than terror threat assessments, and boil it down into 3 colors. Amazing!