Posted on 11/02/2013 7:52:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The account creation system necessary to even start the process of using the exchanges basically didn’t work at all when the site launched.
The vast majority of people who can create accounts still can’t complete the enrollment process.
Anyone who successfully logs in gets to the point of shopping for specific plans on the exchanges may see prices displayed incorrectly,
Anyone who decides to browse for plans without logging in first is also liable to see incorrect prices. The “shop and browse” feature installed to mitigate problems caused by the broken account system often displays the wrong prices, because it lumps together premiums for anyone who is 49 and under, and anyone who is 50 or older.
Several exchanges are having trouble accurately displaying provider and network information for the plans on offer. This is not a big problem for the federal exchanges yet because they are still so dysfunctional,
Even with just a trickle of individuals making it all the way through the process, insurers are not getting correct enrollment information from the exchanges. As a result, many are reviewing applications manually
The small business exchanges aren’t fully up and running either. Enrollment in those exchanges, already delayed once, was delayed again, the administration announced this week.
The federal exchanges were supposed to seamlessly interface with multiple state Medicaid programs, but that fun ctionality, originally delayed until November 1, was also further delayed last week.
The Spanish language version of the website has been delayed indefinitely.
The “data hub” that routes information between multiple databases has gone down on multiple occasions due to hosting facility outages.
the major segments of the system—the user end, the insurer end, the data-routing in the middle, the plan information on display, the connections with state-run legacy systems—are either problem-plagued or broken entirely.
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Identity thieves like it.
All according to plan.
bump
good summary
I think Obamacare is a strong metaphor, for anything which government bureaucracy tries to do.
This should be a major campaign issue in 2014 and 2016 election cycles. Not just the Obamacare problems, but just in general, we should have a debate about the role of government, government control, governmental powers over all of our lives.
Obamacare is a poster child for everything that can go wrong when a massive government bureaucracy is put in charge of major parts of all of our lives.
Summary: CRAP/JUNK/GARBAGE/BOONDOOGLE/SCAM etc.
I think Obamacare is a strong metaphor, for anything which government bureaucracy tries to do.
We’ve been “Obamaed”
Before instituting a new system the existing system must be destroyed. Obamacare is the munition to destroy the existing system. The “solution” will be a more thorough government take over, so called “single payer”
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php
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