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WH docs: Paper applications for Obamacare were problematic, too
CBS News ^ | November 4, 2013 | by Stephanie Condon

Posted on 11/04/2013 11:58:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

While the Obama administration last month worked on resolving issues with HealthCare.gov, it had concerns that it was misleading consumers by suggesting they'd make more progress signing up for an Obamacare insurance plan with a paper application, documents recently turned over to Congress show.

"The paper applications allow people to feel like they are moving forward in the process and provides another option; at the end of the day, we are all stuck in the same queue," the notes from an Obama administration meeting on Oct. 11 say.

Notes from an Oct. 15 meeting say, "Navigators are seeing people very frustrated and walking away, so they are turning to paper applications to protect their reputations as people in the communities who can help, even though paper applications will not have a quicker result necessarily."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abortion; deathpanels; failure; obamacare; obamacareenrollment; obamacarerollout; paperapplications; rinocare; socialism; zerocare
FUBAR.
1 posted on 11/04/2013 11:58:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course they were...all part of the plan.


2 posted on 11/04/2013 12:00:08 PM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stalinist history repeats itself.

Central planning smells nice, to begin.


3 posted on 11/04/2013 12:04:57 PM PST by lurk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The biggest problem with a paper app is that you won’t see the hypothetical 404 error in your mailbox until it’s too late to get coverage for the new year.


4 posted on 11/04/2013 12:05:25 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ObamaCare is the new ‘Cash-for-Clunkers’ program.... You put up lots of cash and you get Obama Clunker insurance


5 posted on 11/04/2013 12:05:31 PM PST by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sure. What'd they think? That the people taking the info on paper would be able to thought-transfer the data into the computer system? Sheesh. They have to use the webapp just like anyone else.

Buncha dunces!

6 posted on 11/04/2013 12:25:17 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (OCare: 500 million lines of code (it took just 500 thousand lines of code to send a rover to Mars))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Probably keying the information into the mainstream OCare app.

Each data entry person probably requires a 40GBIT Fibre Optic connection.


7 posted on 11/04/2013 12:27:37 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Nachum; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Ping.


8 posted on 11/04/2013 12:47:23 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Only ESP has getting through, although only 5-6PM EST during a full moon.


9 posted on 11/04/2013 12:49:55 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

lets see... they didn’t have a working website site so they rushed a bunch of manual phone centers... unless they have several hundred thousand call takers there is going to be a long long line, and what are they going to do with the paperwork? there is no working computer system to enter things...

FUBAR

(fracked-up-beyond-all-repair)


10 posted on 11/04/2013 1:01:17 PM PST by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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