Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data

Market Watch The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/18/2013 | Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky

[Beave Meister]

Insurers say the federal health-care marketplace is generating flawed data that is straining their ability to handle even the trickle of enrollees who have gotten through so far, in a sign that technological problems extend further than the website traffic and software issues already identified.

Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children, missing data fields and suspect eligibility determinations, say executives at more than a dozen health plans. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska said it had to hire temporary workers to contact new customers directly to resolve inaccuracies in submissions. Medical Mutual of Ohio said one customer had successfully signed up for three of its plans.

The flaws could do lasting damage to the law if customers are deterred from signing up or mistakenly believe they have obtained coverage.

[grania]

....a hacker's paradise

yeah. There's another aspect of that. Techies can't be too thrilled that Snowden was labelled a traitor and hunted to the four corners of the earth by Obama. A lot of them are contractors which means they'll have to foot their forced insurance bill. I can't see where they'd have any real incentive to want it to work.

[duckman]

Seems like the first chance the insurers had to see the test data was in Production. Go govt...

[Real Cynic No More]

Wonder if this wrong data extends to the data collected on us by the NSA, the IRS, and other various alphabet and police agencies? What about erroneous medical records that might result in individuals getting wrongly diagnosed, getting either false positives or negatives, or someone else’s results or history?

[KarlInOhio]

What about erroneous medical records that might result in individuals getting wrongly diagnosed, getting either false positives or negatives, or someone else’s results or history?

What do you mean I'm scheduled for a hysterectomy? I don't have any hyster to ectomy.

[Liz]

OBAMACARE'S PRIVACY NIGHTMARE---AG's from 13 states wrote HHS' Sebelius to express concerns over consumer privacy and oversight of “Obamacare navigators,” counselors charged with assisting consumers.....the AGs' asked HHS what policies were in place to: (1) screen and monitor program personnel, (2) prevent fraud and remedy cases of it, and, (3) regulate the navigators at the state level....... chief among AG concerns was (5) whether sufficient safeguards were in place to prevent security breaches.

TALKING POINTS---A West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer information. Clarksburg-based West Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's personnel and hiring practices, including employee background checks and employee monitoring programs, the Sunday Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/17M1QVe) reported. (Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...

YOUR TURN--Contact your state AG---ask him/her to issue a letter of inquiry to groups receiving federal "Navigator" grants. The inquiry should center on questions WRT how the group intends to protect consumer data.

In particular, the questionnaire should ask if the tax-funded "Navigator" program intends to transfer personal/ financial/medical data of the insured to the local/county/national Democrat Party, relevant Unions, banks, investment companies, drug companies, insurance companies. Trial Lawyers' associations and whether "Navigators" have sub rosa contracts with these, and other groups, plan to profit, to provide significant info to enrich databases for pecuniary purposes.

The AG also needs to confirm (1) whether the "navigator" was ever convicted of a felony....... and....(2) whether the "navigator" can be bonded.

Most importantly demand that your AG enforce the requirement that "Navigators" must have a state insurance license (consists of a comprehensive test on all aspects of insurance and compels a background check).

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DAILY CALLER.COM--Kansas Obamacare ‘navigator’
has outstanding arrest warrant / by Michael Volpe

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Rosilyn Wells — the Director of Outreach and Enrollment for the Heartland Community Health-care Center (HCHC)-- was hired as an Obamacare "navigator" despite her shady financial history: (1) a bankruptcy in 2003, (2) a 2007 civil charge from a local check cashing business for writing a bad check, (3) being more than $1700 behind on her state tax bill, and, (4) having an outstanding arrest warrant in nearby Shawnee County. Wells lives and works in Douglass County.

[JPG]

Please enroll in Obamacare today and remember to provide all your financial information. We promise to protect it and guard it with our lives. Thank you.

--The Russian Mafia

[Liz]

Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children, missing data fields and suspect eligibility determinations. One insurer said one enrollee had successfully signed up for three of its health plans.

Multiple enrollments? Could mean multiple identities---the conniving latino trick to get their filthy hands on more US benefits.

The more cynical among us might conclude the Chi/criminals in the WH have been ordered to salt the stats to make the O/care debacle look better.

BTW, insurers better check to see that all the enrollee are still alive and that Valerie is not employing the Chi/criminal politics MO----like the tried and true dead-and-buried-voters trick.

[Tennessee Nana]

Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children, missing data fields and suspect eligibility
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1. duplicate enrollments, ...illegal aliens with multiple SSN yesd could be..This could unravel and expose some of the fraud..but will this administration go after them ??? Probably...no

2. spouses reported as children, ...anchor babies are given the same names as their illegal alien fathers and the fathers use the child’s SSN to work here illegally...I can see where this “error” in the ObamaCare system could happen..

3. missing data fields ...like where were you born ??? Nationality ??? SSN ??? Where do you work ??? Tax returns for 2012 ?? Income ??? Names and birthplace and birthdates of children ???

4. suspect eligibility ...see above...

[Liz]

Nice breakdown, TN——and I’m sure the border connivers will figure out ways to cash in on the O/Care glitches, as well.

[WVNan]

Thinking the same thing. Enough “phony” signees could really mess with this system. Just saying.

[WVNan]

Thank God for Patrick Morrisey, who BTW, was elected by the combined Tea Parties in WV. He’s a jewel, a real patriot. (R)

[Mr. K]

I would never encourage people to do that

(By ‘that’ I mean go to www.healthcare.gov and do multiple long searches and create multiple logins)

(that’s http://www.healthcare.gov/ )

(and especially don’t go to any automated test sites like [ http://catchsoftware.com/software/enterprise-tester] and download automated testing software for free and set it up to do thousands of login attempts)

(because that would be wrong)

[Liz]

Thanks for the realtime report.

We need to keep an eye on him-—for higher office.

[Liz]

[Beave Meister]

Yes, healthy young people are asked to pay for older people’s health in hope that in the future young people will pay for there’s. Gee, sound familiar. They actually think this scam is going to work this time.