These same people are going to be the ones CONTROLLING our healthcare...encouraging.
If the wait time on the Live Chat has fallen from 45 minutes to almost none, that tells me people are giving up and not even bothering to phone in for help.
HT/ www.peoplescube.com
INCONVENIENT FACTOID one story surfaced last week that the same crew that got the contract for the ObamaCare website were former data/media/social media people from the Obama campaign.
INCONVENIENT FACTOID Toni Townes-Whitley, Senior Vice President at CGI Federal for Civilian Agency programs, is Princeton Class of 1985---same dumbed-down class as Michelle Obama. Both are members of Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
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A GLIMPSE OF WHAT'S TO COME A November 30, 2012 Cato.com report indicated the Insurance Exchanges will cost Twice What it Costs to Administer Medicare (NOT what the WH twit told Americans).
ONE STATE'S LAUNCH--- In March 2013 CATO.COM reported "The Cost to Launch the California Health Insurance Exchange is $910 million".
So far (2012) California has received $910 million in federal grants to launch its new health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). The California exchange, "Covered California," has so far awarded a $183 million contract to Accenture to build the website, enrollment, and eligibility system and another $174 million to operate the exchange for four years.
The state will also spend $250 million on a two-year marketing campaign. By comparison California Senator Barbara Boxer spent $28 million on her 2010 statewide reelection campaign while her challenger spent another $22 million.
The most recent installment of the $910 million in federal money was a $674 million grant. The exchange's executive director noted that was less than the $706 million he had asked for. "The feds reduced the 2014 potential payment for outreach and enrollment by about $30 million," he said. "But we think we have enough resources on hand to do the biggest outreach that I have ever seen."
For additional perspective....private insurance marketing site, Esurance sells not only health insurance but also things like homeowners and auto insurance across the country......author put his zip code into their system along with his age, they offered him 87 different health plans from all the big players in my area.
Now granted, the new health insurance exchanges are more complex because they have to interface with Medicaid and the IRS as well as calculate subsidies. But the order of magnitude difference in what it cost to launch esurance compared to the California exchange is pretty big.
Privately funded Esurance began its multi-product national web business in 1998 with an initial $5.5 million round of venture fund investment in 1999 and a second round of $34 million a few months later.
The start-up experience of other major web companies is also instructive. Facebook received $13.7 million to launch in 2005. eBay was founded in 1995 and received its first venture money in 1997$6.7 million.
Even doubling these private investments for inflation still leaves quite a gap.
SOURCE http://www.cato.org/blog/californias-obamacare-exchange-costs-56-times-more-launch-facebook
I don’t know how much can be saved on Obamacare premiums, but the deductibles make having the insurance worthless.
Ah... this is the first verification that I’ve seen...
“income” and “race” were asked on the website.
These will be used to determine if you get covered or not.
Guaranteed.
Thanks for reporting. Very eye-opening.
Your experience is exactly the same as mine.. exactly..
Couple notes.
I called and talked to a person (she was nice), but she couldn’t provide an escalation path. She is sending me a hard copy to apply via mail. It’s been 10 days and I’ve not received it. (She did tell me that she knew of no one who had successfully signed up..)
Chatting online is worthless..
I’ve talked to another woman who tried really hard to get me a number to give experian, but was unable to get through to ‘tech support’.. Nor did she know who were the actual people who would look at the drivers license scan I uploaded. Again, no escalation path.
I have sent a picture of my drivers license to a location in Kentucky. Who knows what they’ll do with it
Great post - thanks. And condolences.
My friend..ahem..made it to the verify your identity BS and I said BS.
You should not have to be giving up all this info just to get a quote since they can only go by your age and a few other pieces of info.
You should be able to get a quote on BASIC parameters not your whole damn history.
You could go to ehealth insurance and get a quote without verifying identity and giving a social security number. It might not be the exact quote but it was close enough.
Now the govt steps in and gives your info over to people who have arrest warrents and illegal aliens.
Were you asked if you had purchased health insurance for any of your pets? I asked that because in the DUmmie FUnnies I posted a KOmmie thread in which a Kommie stated he had been asked that info about a cat he owns.
Oh man, there is a connection to O’CommieCare and CGI which is directly responsible for this fiasco and folks it is a pattern with this Canadian POS.
Pierre Karl Peladeau is an absolute scum bucket who single-handedly destroyed a company I worked for as Director Of Engineering. He took over Quebecor Printing (which at the time was the World’s largest Commercial Printer) after his father died and ran it into the ground all while getting over $6 Million/year in bonuses even when it went bankrupt.
I found a story link from the Montreal Gazette:
Prominent businessman Pierre Karl Peladeau, who is chairman of the ... Canadian tech firm CGI at center of U.S. Obamacare glitch.
Your rate will be about $100 a month, less than a cell phone bill. Obama told me so.
I would suspect that all your personal information is now in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan & other hotbeds of Identity Theft & fraud.
Watch all of your credit card statement & all your credit reports very carefully until you die.
Good Luck.
if more people actually signed up, and actually got to see the premiums and deductables they would have to pay, and the actual terms and conditions, then the Republicans would have more people supporting their efforts to abolish Obamacare.
They don't want you to see the real numbers until AFTER it's too late.
Like everyone, I’m eventually going to need to see a doctor.
Good luck with that 56% of doctors are not going to be in the ACA.
The Experian number prompts for a reference number, which the Obamacare web site hasnt given me. When I admit that I dont have a reference number, the call is terminated. Back on the phone I go to the Obamacare call center. The representative that I talked to tried to help but couldnt explain why I hadnt been given a reference number.
Sounds like it's time to rent Brazil again. This bit sounds like Jill getting the runaround about whether Mr. Buttle's paperwork has been stamped.
I would like to hear “the rest of the story” as it evolves. Will you consider starting a ping list, and adding me to it, please?