Insurers reportedly receiving faulty data from ObamaCare exchanges

fox news ^ | 10/18/2013 | staff

[tobyhill]

Insurers say faulty data from ObamaCare marketplaces is straining their ability to handle even the first wave of consumers who were able to sign up for health insurance using federally run exchanges during the glitch-ridden rollout of the new law.

Executives at more than a dozen health insurance companies say they have received data from online marketplaces that is riddled with errors, including duplicate enrollments, missing data fields and spouses reported as children, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

"The longer this takes to resolve…the harder it will be to get people to [come back and] sign up," Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told the newspaper. "It's not off to a great start," he said, adding, however, that he believes the marketplaces are "here to stay."

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska, which has about 50 ObamaCare enrollees, said it had to stop enrollments from coming through automatically and hire temporary workers to contact customers to fix inaccuracies in submissions, according to the report.

Joan Budden, a marketing executive at Michigan-based Priority Health, told the newspaper that staff are reaching out to new customers to make sure they are enrolled in the correct plans, after realizing that some had signed up for multiple plans.

[bert]

answer: the people buying don’t know that Aetna exists

[LSAggie]

Learn how to appreciate Irony

Learn how to write an ironic statement.

[Kansas58]

It is IRONIC that Cruz forced Obama and Sebelius to be overly defensive, which means that Obamacare could NOT adapt or change, but instead that Obamacare HAD to be launched when it was not ready.
Due to political reasons.
That is the very heart of irony.
Pride comes before the fall. Obama and Sebelius are so proud that they HAD to win the political battles and in the process, they have lost the technical and PR battle, or at least they will very soon.

[showme_the_Glory]

Is it like Drudge? Every time it refreshes it counts as a hit?

[Reeses]

allow paper applications for EVERYONE

This health redistribution scheme requires mostly young healthy people to sign up, and the young don't do paper. The website is specifically designed to bait the young so the government can sink their claws into them. Anyone willing to do paper is probably unhealthy and a money loser.

[Kansas58]

Wrong.
I have been in this business a LONG time, and many people, for good reason, ESPECIALLY the financially well of, HATE giving any information over the Internet.
Your broad statement does not hold much water at all.
YES, many young people are more Internet savvy but that was not and is not relevant to my point.
The point is that Paper Applications are available for ALL Obamcare plans, but that we were told to only use these paper aps for those who did not qualify for any credit or subsidy.
It would be EASY for Obama and Sebelius to allow paper aps to qualify. They could do it by “Executive Order” is my guess.
I do not think it would pass Congress BECAUSE: The entire issue of the Federal Exchanges, and Tax Credits, is currently in the Courts. I am guessing they do not have the authority to grant tax credits at all, and Congress will not want to “give them” that authority with new legislation.

[CityCenter]

Non-participation is the only tool needed to collapse it.