Posted on 11/10/2013 4:02:06 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The White House is increasing its reliance on insurers by accepting their technical help in efforts to repair the problem-ridden online health insurance marketplace and prioritizing consumers’ ability to buy plans directly from the carriers.
The Obama administration’s broader cooperation with insurers is a tacit acknowledgment that the federal insurance exchange — fraught with software and hardware flaws that have frustrated many Americans trying to buy coverage — might not be working smoothly by the target date of Nov. 30, according to several health experts familiar with the administration’s thinking.
White House officials reject the idea that the strategy represents a contingency plan in the event that the online system continues to falter.
“We are working 24-7 to ensure that the site is working smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of November,” said Chris Jennings, deputy assistant to the president for health policy. He said the administration remains confident that the site, HealthCare.gov, will be ready by the end of the month and that the White House always envisioned insurers’ direct enrollment of customers would be important to the law’s success. . .
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I guess that the communists are giving them the rope to hang themselves.
I wish that the CEOs would tell Jarrett to screw.
More useful idiots chomping at the bit. Cutting off thier nose in spite of thier face, and lastly WHORES! hoping for some crumbs thrown thier way like AARP did
You can't design a system by committee. If you have poor requirements, you will get an unworkable system. You can't change that simple fact no matter how much money you throw at it.
Meaning obama and Cruella Sebelius can’t sign up a VAST bunch of naïve fools looking for free or cheap insurance with a HALF VAST web site
even if they fix the web site, all indications are it’s not gonna be a happy sign-up time for most people who access it
Since obama will never look at the end product, the insurance companies can put whatever they want in there. Ha, ha!
So the insurance companies are the next on the Obama blame list...
AARP is not an interest group for retired persons. They have their own brand of insurance and other products to sell.
They’ve been that way for years selling on their good name...what’s left of it.
DK
Does that mean it will work well for at least 50 of the 60 people who are interested?
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" (Mark Twain)
Once (if ever) the website problems are fixed, then the actuarial, arithmetic and human behavioral issues will surface. This could never work anywhere outside of a faculty lounge at Harvard or the University of Chicago.
Obamacare isn't a train wreck, it's a plane crash inside a sharknado superstorm.
***AARP is not an interest group for retired persons. They have their own brand of insurance and other products to sell.***
Makes you wonder why that silly little SS Death Benefit of $255 has never increased for decades. Also have to wonder how much of those funds should have been earning interest and where they are stashed.
The same ones he’ll drive out of business.
The insurance industry is highly regulated. Obama is just asking to get slapped down. I’m waiting for the industry to demand to go before Congress and nail the SOB.
The very same ones which were selling crummy plans?
You ought to hear what my parents and aunts and uncles call AARP. Quite unprintable, I was shocked to hear such words from my Mom!
So needless to say, AARP does not have a good reputation in my family.
Hey Obama & Co: Nobody believes anything you say anymore. Buh bye.
“I’m waiting for the industry to demand to go before Congress and nail the SOB.”
You’re asking for the CEO of a highly regulated business that owes its existence to government good feelings to criticize the very government that allows it to conduct business. No matter how badly treated they are, they won’t say anything to annoy people who can literally close them down with a regulation hidden twenty layers deep in a bill about clean water.
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