Posted on 11/19/2013 6:17:42 PM PST by Ray76
Obamacare: Day 50
America Held Hostage
Roundup of News & Views
No. 14. Nov 19, 2013
HHS internal emails show impending Healthcare.gov disaster
“We also finally were told that there were only 10 developers total working on the FM build for all functionality”
Article at Gov Health IT
30-40 percent of ObamaCare IT must still be built
Article at The Hill
House Energy and Commerce Subcmte. hearing on Healthcare.gov Website Security
Video at C-Span
Republicans say new report points to Obamacare security problems
Article at Washington Times
Some cyber security experts recommend shutting Obamacare site
HealthCare.gov site is riddled with security flaws that put user data of millions of people at risk and it should be shut down until fixed, several technology experts warned lawmakers on Tuesday.
The website collects personal data such as names, birth dates, social security numbers, email addresses and other information that criminals could use for a variety of scams.
Article at Reuters
Plenty of warning, Obama aware of March report on website problems
Report warned the government of the potential for system failure that could make the health care exchanges inaccessible to consumers trying to buy insurance through them
Article at Washington Examiner
Article at Washington Times
Article at Reuters
Article at CBS News
Senate Democrat says 'we all knew' Obamacare would cancel current plans
New York Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand explained that President Obama didn't mislead her with his "if you like your plan, you can keep it" pledge, because "we all knew" that it wasn't true.
Meanwhile Carney blames insurers for Obama’s broken ‘keep your doctor’ promises
Article at Washington Examiner
Article at Daily Caller
Health care: Obama's fix for canceled plans throws insurers a curveball
Health insurers across America woke up Friday to confront a looming administrative nightmare.
Insurers cannot simply reissue old plans: They must recrunch numbers, refigure the benefits and rates for a complex array of populations, and then resubmit them to state regulators. Some states may not go along.
Article at Christian Science Monitor
Insurance industry warns against fix
Top insurance industry officials warned Sunday that President Obama's push to delay health plan cancellations would only make things worse.
Article at The Hill
New Jersey Assn. of Health Underwriters, on the ‘Fix’: ‘This Is a New Insanity’
Article at PJ Media
National Association of Insurance Commissioners Issue Statement
"In addition, it is unclear how, as a practical matter, the changes proposed today by the President can be put into effect. In many states, cancellation notices have already gone out to policyholders and rates and plans have already been approved for 2014."
Article at NAIC
AHIP, insurance industry trade group, Issue Statements
"Changing the rules after health plans have already met the requirements of the (Obamacare) law could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums," AHIP President Karen Ignagni said in a statement.
Article at AHIP
Article at AHIP
Article at AHIP
States reject Obama scheme to extend canceled policies
Massachusetts
Article at Yahoo
Washington state
Article at Seattle Times
Colorado
Article at Daily Journal
Obamacare Architect: 'Could Be the Beginning of a Death Spiral'
Harvard professor David Cutler, a so-called architect of Obamacare, says we "could be" witnessing "the beginning of a death spiral" for the unpopular health care bill.
Article at Weekly Standard
Experts doubt site will function properly by deadline
Experts increasingly doubt the federal site serving 36 states will function properly by the White House’s self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline -- or maybe even by Jan. 1, when insurance coverage is scheduled to begin.
Article at Gov Health IT
Obama: Obamacare needs to be re-branded
Article at The Hill
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Day 50 was a Doozie!
Still stunning to me that they don’t have the site built all the way through to payment processing and distribution to the insurers and brokers.
I suppose that it’s possible for them to have it fixed by February and declare victory, but how many people will get sick in January and have no way of obtaining insurance before then?
The one IT expert said they needed 7 months with the site shut down in order to fix it. Wow!
And the metric that they have 25 times the number of lines of code as Facebook is just hilarious.
I like the part about 10 developers total “on the FM build”. I haven’t determined what “FM” means... Hopefully they had more than 10 people on this.
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