Posted on 10/22/2013 7:38:43 AM PDT by IbJensen
Cheryl K. Chumley reports for The Washington Times, Oct. 21, 2013, that Consumer Reports — the magazine that tests and rates products — has harsh words of advice for those trying to enroll in ObamaDoesn’tCare via the official website, Healthcare.gov.
Consumer Reports began testing the Unaffordable Care Act’s website since the site’s launch day to test its ease of use. But from the beginning, Consumer Reports experienced problems same as those of countless Americans. The site would slow to a crawl, then crash.
On Oct. 8, the Consumer Reports writers said: “One week in, Healthcare.gov is barely operational.” By Oct. 10, the writers were losing patience: “Healthcare.gov is slightly less terrible today. The bad news, is that it’s still next to impossible to create a user name and password that you can actually use to sign in. I myself have tried five times without success. Our readers report similar frustrations.”
Consumer Reports’ final advice: “Don’t bother even trying for another couple of weeks. But if all this is too much for you to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can.”
Ron Fournier of the National Journal writes that the problems with the Healthcare.gov site go beyond what Obama this morning dismisses as mere hiccups or “kinks,” but are “embedded deeply in the online system,” including: ◾Outright inaccurate information provided to people about federal tax credits. ◾Low-income people erroneously told they don’t qualify for Medicaid. ◾Insurance companies getting confusing information about who has signed up.
Fournier, who seems to favor the Unaffordable Care Act, takes Obama to task for dismissing the extent of the website’s problems while, at the same time, deflecting blame by saying that the Republicans had fought the law (as if the GOP had something to do with website’s problems!). Fournier concludes:
The public’s faith in government is at a record low, just as Obama is fighting Republicans on several fronts over the size and power of the federal bureaucracy. His administration needs to rapidly improve the online exchanges to stand any chance of convincing, say, young Americans to pay for insurance they don’t think they need. Beyond Obamacare, the Democratic Party’s reputation for competency is as stake. The cost of the site is already $394 million, a massive amount compared to private-sector CMS work, and sure to grow. [...]
Dismissing the extent of the problem and reminding voters that Republicans fought the law — which is essentially all Obama did in his Rose Garden remarks — is a deflection, which shouldn’t be confused with implementation or governing.
I like calling it RobertsCare.
Lucifer is offended
watch out for the flies
Obamaware
Sorry Barky, things are actually hard work in the real world...and very difficult when you start from scratch.
Guess they didn't teach you that in Affirmative Action Academy.
I am still pissed at Consumer Reports. I took them up on a trial subscription and one of the issues covered Obamacare. It was a complete puff piece and after you read it you would think our salvation had arrived. There was little, if anything even remotely negative written about Obamacare. It was democRAT party line propaganda. Needless to say I will not be renewing.
Why do I keep getting this image of Chinese hackers rubbing their hands gleefully?
I’m not putting my information out there.
Lucifer care is worse than NSA. They get every drop of your personal information and you hand it to them on a silver platter.
It’s there for any hacker that wants it.
As it stands today, the process of signing up through Obamacare is an unfunded mandate on individuals. Following the administration's advice, how much time would be wasted, simply trying to create an account and figure out what insurance to purchase? How long to they actually expect people to sit, staring at their computer monitors, waiting for something that looks like information about insurance?
At least with income taxes, I believe you can write off some tax preparation services.
Point taken but CR has been of leftists, by leftists and for leftists since its founding.
It never saw a government regulation/ban/warning label it didn’t like, especially as CR shares the view that users are idiots hell-bent incapable of using any product without suffering grievous injury or death.
I finally found an explanation that makes sense. Apparently, "the administration" didn't want applicants to be able to view their rates, prior to viewing their subsidies.
But determining applicants' subsidies requires applicants to enter all of their financial information FIRST. Yes, FIRST.
Only an Ivy League community organizer could be this stupid.
What is funny about CR’s caution is the “One Month” admonition....
What in the hell will those clowns fix in one month, that took 3 1/2 years to screw up?
See the thread on Gall’s Law.
Large successfull website designs, evolve from small, successful designs.
Large failures are impossible to fix and must be scrapped to start over.
HealthCare.gov problems do not negate benefits of new health law
Published: October 21, 2013 06:40 PM
Pundits opposed to the new health care law and some media outlets have tried to suggest that our coverage of the troubled HealthCare.gov site means that Consumer Reports has turned against the Affordable Care Act.
Not true. Consistent with our mission to inform and protect consumers, particularly in this complicated health care market, our advice remains the same: The best place to buy coverage on your own is through the Health Insurance Marketplace in your state. That guarantees you will get comprehensive coverage, and it's the only way you can lower the cost of your premiums and possibly even your deductibles and copayments.
Doing that online in most states means registering at and shopping through the federal HealthCare.gov. President Obama acknowledged that site's problems at a Rose Garden event today. “Nobody’s madder than me about the fact the website isn't working as well as it should,” he said. “Which means it's going to be fixed. And in the meantime you can bypass the website and apply by phone or in person.” (To do that, go to Find Local Help, part of HealthCare.gov.)
Millions of Americans can go directly to their state's marketplace, including residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
Those who will have to go through HealthCare.gov need to apply by Dec. 15 for coverage to start on Jan. 1, 2014. Open enrollment runs through the end of March 2014. Continue to check back here for continued coverage of HealthCare.gov.
Consumers can also use our free interactive tool, HealthLawHelper.org (in Spanish at Aseguratusalud.org) to get personalized advice about your options and to find out whether you're elligible for financial aid.
—Nancy Metcalf
Notice this bayonet in the back U turn actually says nothing and has eligible misspelled probably because it was thrown to together so fast.
LuciferCare is perfect.
Your post is correct.
Obamacare is good for the nation.
Eat it!
Well maybe if we ALL try to log on at a given time each day we can break the computer log jam!!!! {;^p)
The report this morning was when it was tested a week prior to launch, it crashed if more than 200 connections were attempted.
How easy is it now to admonish this evil of all administrations and label them all the assh-oles they truly are.
Take back America before it’s too late.
Bipartisanship? Never works Republicrats~
You're probably right. Obama is competitive with Satan in terms of approaching pure evil, but Satan brings a great deal more intelligence, energy, and competence to the task. Satan will do things very much like implementing ObamaCare when the time comes for him to take power, but he will be far more successful and far more dangerous than Obama. That's the really scary part of this trial run with a drug-addled rookie in power.
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