From Channel 13 Las Vegas: After an emotional meeting last week, the board overseeing Nevada's health insurance exchange has called for another meeting this week to get an update on problems.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board is set to meet on Friday, Feb. 21, in Carson City. The agenda includes an update from developer Xerox on problems with Nevada Health Link and its call center.
For weeks, frustrated customers have turned to Action News for answers after running into problems. The emotions came to a boil at Thursday's meeting of the state board.
"I chose Nevada Health Link just because I thought it would be easy and it's been anything but that," said Dwayne Martinez in an interview with Action News.
Martinez is self employed. He purchased health insurance for him and his wife in December. Nearly two months later, he said the insurance company still doesn't have his information and his wife needs treatment for skin cancer.
"We're dealing with people's lives," Martinez said. "People can't afford to get health care otherwise."
Rather than use the federal government's system, 16 states and the District of Columbia created their own exchanges. Turns out, Nevada isn't the only place having trouble.
http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/you-ask-we-investigate/State-board-calls-for-update-on-problems-with-Nevada-Health-Link-245901641.html
And this story from Channel 13: More than a day after a passionate plea to state officials for help, a Valley man said he is still in limbo over his health insurance.
Lawrence Basich's speech before the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board on Thursday left some in the audience speechless. He shared more of his story with Action News on Friday.
"All of I sudden, I felt a very, very severe pain in my upper chest," Basich recalled.
Basich said he survived one heart attack but is worried stress over health care will lead to another.
"The application process is probably the worst thing I've ever seen in my life," Basich said.
Like many people, he's fed up with Nevada Health Link.
Basich told state board members on Thursday, "I did everything I had to do according to Nevada Health Link. I paid my payment. You accepted my money. But who's going to take these bills off my hands?"
Basich said he paid his premium in November but never got confirmation from the insurance company that he was covered. When he called the insurance company, he said a representative had no information on his enrollment. On Dec. 31, he said he had a heart attack resulting in multiple hospital visits and more than $400,000 in medical bills.
"I'm not going to pay it. I'm just not going to pay it," Basich said. http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/you-ask-we-investigate/Valley-man-explains-passionate-plea-to-health-exchange-board-245628621.html
When ObamaCare was passed, Gov. Brian Sandoval had a choice:
1. Use the Federal government web site
2. Create a web site for Nevada and by pass the Feds.
Conservatives like myself pleaded with Sandoval not to create a state web site because of the cost and to put the pressure on the Fed's to produce.
Now, it seems like the Nevada web site, run Xerox, is just as much a failure as the Federal web site, and this is the fault of Gov. Sandoval who insisted on it.
Obviously, the Sandoval administration was not providing enough oversight of Xerox and the health care web site and now people are suffering because of it.
I guess this is what you get when you are a full blown RINO. (Republican In Name Only)
And unfortunately for Sandoval, this will cripple any chance he had to become a vice presidential candidate in 2016 and probably hurt his chance to be the Republican to take on Senile/Liar/Coward Harry Reid in 2016.
And the ObamaCare train wreck continues
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