The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

[FreshFish]

Re: The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

State of Washington seems to be doing fine from a technical standpoint (can't speak to the actual insurance plans). Perhaps the feds should have farmed it out.

In all honesty, I'm well aware the feds had a tough task implementing this monster. SWA was hard enough for my employer - it took over a year. Still, it seems the feds obviously started too late and had to rush the job. That will always lead to major problems in any project, not just IT.

All you say is true.

The situation is also compounded by dissembling that appears to have political movites. Better to obfuscate and deny rather than admit the obvious?

I've read various versions of the following in several places:

In a White House speech Monday, President Obama assured the public that his new health-care law is up and running even in the absence of a functioning Web site. He told people they can call an 800 number instead of buying coverage online.

Reporters duly called the number and got busy signals, or when getting through and following the directions, got referred back to healthcare.gov, [which then referred them back to the 800 number]

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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As I said, something on the Internet that has some problems. I'm shocked. The government should have farmed it out to a private company so that wouldn't happen. Maybe Microsoft.

State of Washington seems to be doing fine from a technical standpoint (can't speak to the actual insurance plans). Perhaps the feds should have farmed it out.

In all honesty, I'm well aware the feds had a tough task implementing this monster. SWA was hard enough for my employer - it took over a year. Still, it seems the feds obviously started too late and had to rush the job. That will always lead to major problems in any project, not just IT.

Re: The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

What's a failure here is your reading comprehension, though in your case it appears to be too late to fix it.

It's too soon to tell about the law. It's the implementation of the federal exchanges that has been a failure so far.

As I said, something on the Internet that has some problems. I'm shocked. The government should have farmed it out to a private company so that wouldn't happen. Maybe Microsoft.

[FreshFish]

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That's ok. No one clicks on them anyway.

So you are now calling yourself "No One"? Did you just finish the scene from the Oddysey in Polyphemus' cave?

[FreshFish]

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I am shocked that people who opposed the law are now saying it is a failure.

What's a failure here is your reading comprehension, though in your case it appears to be too late to fix it.

It's too soon to tell about the law. It's the implementation of the federal exchanges that has been a failure so far.

[unofan]

I hardly have the heart to post links any more.

That's ok. No one clicks on them anyway.

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I would not exactly compare it to a Pedro Martinez start, either.

Something on the Internet has bugs undocumented features? News at 11!

[joecct]

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I am shocked that people who opposed the law are now saying it is a failure. Truly astonishing.

I would not exactly compare it to a Pedro Martinez start, either.

Re: The PPACA - Implementation Phase I

I am shocked that people who opposed the law are now saying it is a failure. Truly astonishing.

[FreshFish]

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If the rollout of the exchanges was an MMA bout, the referee would have already stopped the match. It is even worse that the most pessimistic critics feared. What a disaster.

I hardly have the heart to post links any more. The data from the exchanges submitted to insurance companies is so corrupted, they have resorted to telephoning people and processing applications by hand.

Insurers say the federal health-care marketplace is generating flawed data that is straining their ability to handle even the trickle of enrollees who have gotten through so far, in a sign that technological problems extend further than the website traffic and software issues already identified.

Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children, missing data fields and suspect eligibility determinations, say executives at more than a dozen health plans. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska said it had to hire temporary workers to contact new customers directly to resolve inaccuracies in submissions. Medical Mutual of Ohio said one customer had successfully signed up for three of its plans.

Meanwhile, HHS is refusing to release any information and is intimidating people who do know something to remain silent:

HHS, which is running all or part of the marketplaces in 36 states, has repeatedly declined to answer specific questions about its handling of the rollout, including specific glitches, enrollment figures, or its plans to fix the problems.

Health-department officials have pressured insurers to refrain from commenting publicly about the problems, according to executives at four health plans, who asked not to be named.

[FreshFish]

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has anyone heard how many folks have signed up since Obama care went online? I've heard as little as 30,000 and as many 51,000.

some scattered data points:

The states running their own exchanges report enrollment more regularly [than HHS], which ranges from the low thousands in big states like California to a single person so far in Delaware. Literally, one.

[Rover]

has anyone heard how many folks have signed up since Obama care went online? I've heard as little as 30,000 and as many 51,000.

Its higher in the state based exchanges than the feds but I don't know the exact totals.

[walrus]

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has anyone heard how many folks have signed up since Obama care went online? I've heard as little as 30,000 and as many 51,000.

[Twitch Boy]

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Not sure I want to play "Cornhole"

That's just the game with the sloped boards and the beanbags you see on every frat house lawn in America.

[Rover]

Do you know how to tell a fake Obama care website?


The fake one works

That's pretty funny.