From the LVRJ: A Las Vegas man who had trouble getting covered through the state exchange’s Nevada Health Link website is a co-plaintiff in the first class-action lawsuit filed over the troubled insurance marketplace.
Local personal-injury law firm Callister & Associates filed the lawsuit on behalf of Larry Basich, who went uncovered even after paying premiums as far back as November, and a local woman named Lea Swartley, who also has gone without coverage despite paying for a plan and was due to give birth Tuesday night.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court of Nevada on Tuesday afternoon against the state of Nevada, Xerox and the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, which runs Nevada Health Link.
Callister said about 40 people have called him to say they’ve paid for coverage and have no insurance.
He said he didn’t know how big the class could get, but he noted that Nevada Health Link had a pends list of more than 10,500 people without coverage as of last week.
Callister added that the lawsuit is not an indictment of the Affordable Care Act, which authorized insurance exchanges, or of the state exchange’s insurance plans.
“This has nothing to do with the ACA. This is 100 percent about Xerox, who won the bid from the state of Nevada to create this exchange. And they’ve failed. They absolutely failed,” Callister said. http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/first-class-action-lawsuit-filed-over-nevada-s-insurance-marketplace
While the barrister says this isn't about ObamaCare, it really is. If it weren't for ObamaCare/Sandoval/Care, the victims of ObamaCare/Sandoval care would not be in their messes they are in now.
No comments:
Post a Comment