CBS: Healthcare.gov “dramatically underestimates costs” in new estimate feature

Hot Air ^ | 9:21 am on October 23, 2013 | by Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well, the good news is that HHS has actually tried to fix a few things on the Healthcare.gov website.  The bad news is that the fixes make the confusion and incompetence even worse.  After hearing a hailstorm of criticism over the necessity to completely enroll before seeing premium prices, HHS added a premium estimator on the front page of the website.  However, unless you are exactly 27 or 50 years old, the estimates you get will wildly undershoot what you’ll be forced to pay.

CBS reports that industry analysts can’t believe what they are seeing:

[TigersEye]

It has to be amazingly bad for CBS to report this.

[SierraWasp]

Ernest, I'm wondering if any CA health insurance brokers can find out if coveredCA.com is doing this mis-information exercise too.

I'm wondering how we could find out!!!