Posted on 11/05/2013 7:00:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Evidently, the competition for the top spot of Most Bungled ObamaCare Rollout among the program’s avid admirers is actually pretty stiff. I’d say that the federal government’s marketplace takes the title, seeing as how the website’s prohibitive glitches mean that the residents of 34 states are now left hanging, but even ObamaCare enthusiasts on a smaller bureaucratic scale just can’t seem to get it together.
As I mentioned last night, relatively tiny and wildly progressive Vermont has had such a hard time with enrollment that their governor has decided to allow people to extend their current coverage plans three months past their December 31st expiration deadline to March 31st; and in similarly rhapsodic Oregon over on the west coast, the malfunctioning exchange website has entirely reduced the state to sifting through paper applications. They still have yet to enroll even a single Oregonian, NPR reports:
When Cover Oregon opened Oct. 1, executive director Rocky King was excited. He’d been preparing for years. “Day one, we are accepting applications. And staff at the Oregon Health Authority and Cover Oregon are ready to process those applications,” he said on opening day.
Back then, King conceded there were still glitches with the website, but he said that by mid-to-late October they’d be worked out. Now it’s November, and it’s clear that a quick fix is not in the cards. So Cover Oregon has turned to old-fashioned paper applications. People can either download one off the website, or have somebody walk them through it. …
The paper application is 20 pages long and asks for everything from names and the number of people in your household to pension contributions and alimony payments.
That means Cover Oregon staff will comb through documents to determine if the person is eligible for a tax credit or for Medicaid. The sporadic functionality of the federal government’s HealthCare.gov website means this eligibility check is a problem.
Cover Oregon is estimating their site will be fully operational by the end of November, but they have a stack of at least 7,300 paper applications piling up through which they need to hurry and sort through manually within a maximum 45-day period to start adding people to their rolls.
Like I said, the competition for the most defective rollout is fierce.
The paper application is 20 pages long...
Is that typical for an insurance application?
My employer provides mine and I do not recall any 29 page forms?
That would make my brain hurt!
Maybe I am just paranoid but I can not imagine why people would be comfortable giving some government bureaucrats all of this personal information for them to enter in to some all inclusive data base.
About 5 years ago somebody hacked an Ohio state government data base and stole a bunch of citizen info. Mine was part of that info. The state pick up the tab for credit protection service for me for a year or two.
Even before that fiasco I didn’t trust government with my personal info. They don’t get any more from me than is required by law and I don’t volunteer any info by signing up for any voluntary programs.
Citizen’s privacy simply isn’t a government priority. Just the opposite is true.
i find this hysterical... my very liberal sister, who runs her own company, got a government contract to help with the roll out of Cover Oregon... when i saw her last month, she talked and talked and talked about the wonderful new health care that was going to be available to everybody... it’s so good that she chose not to sign up for it...
Esther ping...
Gonna be mighty difficult to get the younger generation in any state, given as they are to expect the world owes them all sorts of goodies, to sign up for a plan which in fact takes from them to give to others when they find out that’s what it does.....
Indeed!
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