Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature

CNBC ^ | Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013 | Dan Mangan

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Another prominent feature....

[Col Frank Slade]

Oh, you actually want to pay for your Obamacare insurance plan ?

[nascarnation]

Another problem that could easily be solved by hiring clerks.

Imagine a warehouse sized building full of federal clerks lazily writing out checks to insurance companies.

More Democrat voters, better employment stats.

[spokeshave]

Schadenfreude overload...and not covered by Obamacare

[An.American.Expatriate]

IIRC in order to be covered on 1 Jan, the first payment will have to have been received mid December, otherwise coverage will not begin until February.

So, if they aren’t even planing on going live with payments until after the 1st of January, when will the first policies become effective? AND - Do the sheep actually signing up for these policies KNOW this?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Why on earth would someone (Obama, or someone reporting to him) release something which was so manifestly incomplete? The only reason I can come up with is that Obama and crew (Jarett, etc) have skated and BS’d all of their lives and it’s worked out ok until now.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

So......to follow up....

if:

you have to pay before you are enrolled.....

and the payment part of the website isn’t built yet....

[EQAndyBuzz]

Funny, why doesn’t anyone come right of and say it. All the Obamacare website does is collect private information for whatever they want to use it for.

[a fool in paradise]

Sabotage by right wing hackers, no doubt!

[dforest]

Obama takes the money, insurers do not get paid. Sounds about like a single payer system.

People have been defrauded.

[Jim Noble]

It was never intended that they would be paid.

[a fool in paradise]

Obambi would fix it himself but this job is above his pay grade.

[Mears]

This “thing” should be rescinded,and fast.

What a joke.

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[GeronL]

bump

[EBH]

This is incredible....really, they never even intended for this to get to the point where people actually paid their bill?

[TexasCajun]

That's pretty tricky.

Obamacare collects customers payments, but doesn't have a system to pay the insurance companies.

Somebody give Obama a newspaper, he ain't gonna be happy.

[CommieCutter]

But they made sure tihey got individual’s fiancial info alright.

[CelesteChristi]

There’s your sign. It was never intended to work.

Where’s our 600+ Mil Mr Resident?

[El Cid]

We need that You-Tube Hitler guy on one of these Congressional Committees. The guys we have are too reserved and well mannered. This level of incompetence and malfeasance (and utter waste of taxpayer dollars) need a full, public, dress down.

[oldbrowser]

It would probably be better if it just remained a referral system and let the insurance company and the insured handle the financial part of it.

Sure as hell some politician will find a way to steal the money and put IOU's in it's place.