Is Obamacare imploding?

[RobDownSouth]

Oregon cuts tally of people lacking health insurance by 10 percent in two weeks

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This is what happens when you're proactive, folks.

They expanded Medicaid eligibility, then sought out those who previously didn't qualify and enrolled them.

This is how the system is supposed to work.

 

[LadyVer]

The GOP is imploding.

 

[FistedSister]

Oregon cuts tally of people lacking health insurance by 10 percent in two weeks

LINK

This is what happens when you're proactive, folks.

They expanded Medicaid eligibility, then sought out those who previously didn't qualify and enrolled them.

This is how the system is supposed to work.

But, the geniuses in Florida turned down 51 million in Federal funds to expand their Medicaid program, thereby keeping about a million people ineligible. That's how to fuck yourselves and your kids.

 

[LadyVer]

But, the geniuses in Florida turned down 51 million in Federal funds to expand their Medicaid program, thereby keeping about a million people ineligible. That's how to fuck yourselves and your kids.

Same here in Texas. Thanks, Perry, you jackass.

 

[Busybody]

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Now that traffic has abated, HHS concedes there were built-in information technology and structural defects. Some of Healthcare.gov's automatic operations mimic hacker denial-of-service attacks meant to disable a site. These can be fixed, though press reports suggest they're due to a programming rush because HHS delayed key regulations and IT specifications until after the election to avoid Republican criticism.

Then instead of rolling out the program in stages or delaying it as HHS has so many other parts of the law, the department simply dumped a bad product on the public to meet a self-created deadline.

Other failures have the same political character. Consumers must set up a complex account with sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers before they are allowed to browse health plans. The government wants to show consumers only their net out-of-pocket premiums minus subsidies, not the true underlying cost of insurance. That's because those all-in quotes are so much higher than what's available on the individual market.

HHS continues to claim that the exchanges are all about competition—they're even trying to rebrand them as "marketplaces." But real marketplaces are transparent and let consumers know what they get for what price. ObamaCare's exchanges are intended to obscure price and service options.

HHS still refuses to disclose how much taxpayers shelled out for this exchange lemon. The money came from several ObamaCare, general HHS and Medicare accounts and flowed to more than 50 outside vendors, with several no-bid contracts awarded outside the normal procurement process.

Mrs. Sebelius also refuses to reveal basic data about ObamaCare enrollment even as she brags about the millions of people who have supposedly visited Healthcare.gov. Information that would allow outsiders to evaluate the exchanges includes how many people have applied and qualified for coverage so far, what types of health plans they're selecting and what their health risks are.

Mrs. Sebelius claims she doesn't know the answers and that the government will pull such information together in November. Given the farce so far, it makes sense that the CEO of ObamaCare can't or isn't monitoring its day-to-day operations. But this claim is almost certainly false.

The states running their own exchanges report enrollment more regularly, which ranges from the low thousands in big states like California to a single person so far in Delaware. Literally, one. And the HHS-run exchanges are designed to make daily reports, seven days a week.

These reports are known in industry jargon as 834 transactions and they may represent the most serious ObamaCare breakdown. Insurers and the exchanges are supposed to swap electronic files every 24 hours that track the policies consumers select and their subsidies and check their lists against each other. The problem is that the exchanges rarely generate accurate 834s.

Our sources in the insurance industry explain that the 834s so far are often corrupted or in the wrong syntax, and therefore unusable unless processed by hand. In other cases the exchanges spit out multiple 834s enrolling and unenrolling the same user and don't come with time stamps that would allow the insurer to identify the most recent version.

The upshot is that the exchanges, the insurers and the consumers will often have different records on file. These mismatches are an architectural flaw that could persist for years. The administrative-bureaucratic tangle will only become more complex as more people enroll, providers start billing insurers, patients show up in doctors offices thinking they have coverage they don't, and the IRS starts fining Americans for not having insurance.

Editors WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304106704579137501568384292

 

[mercury14]

Just so conservatives know, if signups are lower than projected, the ACA is going to but absolutely flush with cash. So much for your narrative that it was going to inflate the deficit.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

^^^^^worries About Not Having Enough Patients To Insert Suppositories In.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Then instead of rolling out the program in stages or delaying it as HHS has so many other parts of the law, the department simply dumped a bad product on the public to meet a self-created deadline.

Editors WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304106704579137501568384292

Of course, had they NOT made their deadline, you'd be yammering that program was in trouble, they can't meet their deadline, it's a violation of the law, we should Impeach Teh Negar and that means Mitt Romney is president!

Situational Native American speaks with forked tongue!

 

[Busybody]

Editors WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304106704579137501568384292

what the fuck is with you?

you think anyone cares about facts and reality?

ITS ABOUT NIGGER PROTECTION!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

During the debate, Hannity also had a ticker running at the bottom of the screen, showing how much premiums are reportedly rising under Obamacare in various states. According to the data reportedly compiled by the Heritage Foundation:

• New Mexico: +80% (Age 27)
• North Carolina +90.7% (Age 27)
• North Dakota +113.2% (Age 27)
• North Dakota +96% (Age 50)
• Oregon +55% (Age 27)
• Tennessee +59% (Age 27)
• Texas +100% (Age 27)
• Texas +91.2% (Age 50)

 

[miles]

That's a Faux News Lie!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Age 27 is the "worst case scenario" (since parents can have their kids and RentAGooks on their policy until age 26).

Naturally, Hannity and AJ focus on that.

Overall, however, premiums are going down.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have yet to see any testimonials from the libtards about their enrollment and reduced cost.

 

[RobDownSouth]

That's a Faux News Lie!

It's not a lie, it's a logical fallacy. Specifically, the fallacy of the small sample, i.e. sampling ONE age (27) out of a range (27-64).

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obamacare-woes-widen-as-insurers-get-wrong-data-2013-10-18

THE MELTDOWN CONTINUES.

 

[Busybody]

Report: Obamacare Exchange Built Using 10-Year-Old Technology, Will Never Work Properly Unless It Is Rebuilt…




And we’re the ones who are going to get stuck with the bill for this fiasco.

Via USA Today:


The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY.

The site could be perfect, but if the systems from which it draws data are not up to speed, it doesn’t matter, said John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace, a cloud computer service provider.

“It is a core problem in the sense of it’s fundamental to this thing actually working, but it’s not necessarily a problem that the people who wrote HealthCare.gov can get to,” Engates said. “Even if they had a perfect system, it still won’t work.”

Recent changes have made the exchanges easier to use, but they still require clearing the computer’s cache several times, stopping a pop-up blocker, talking to people via Web chat who suggest waiting until the server is not busy, opening links in new windows and clicking on every available possibility on a page in the hopes of not receiving an error message. With those changes, it took one hour to navigate the HealthCare.gov enrollment process Wednesday.

“I have never seen a website — in the last five years — require you to delete the cache in an effort to resolve errors,” said Dan Schuyler, a director at Leavitt Partners, a health care group by former Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt. “This is a very early Web 1.0 type of fix.”

“The application could be fundamentally flawed,” said Jeff Kim, president of CDNetworks, a content-delivery network. “They may be using 1990s technology in 2.0 world.”

 

[Busybody]

Ouch: Far-Left Huffington Post Calls Obamacare A “Train Wreck”…


Welcome to the club, HuffPo.

 

[miles]

I have yet to see any testimonials from the libtards about their enrollment and reduced cost.

....and you never will. That requires honesty and doesn't fit in with their Dear Leader's Big Lie.

 

[RobDownSouth]

....and you never will. That requires honesty and doesn't fit in with their Dear Leader's Big Lie.

Liberals by definition are more honest than you will ever be.

 

[landslider2000]

Silly to aver that honesty reposes with any given ideology.

Obama could still rescue Obamacare by orchestrating open, transparent, genuinely bipartisan negotiations re how to repair Obamacare.

America is not -- at least yet -- a dictatorship. Health care is not the province of any one party.

The ramming through of Obamacare is a classic example of how not to do public policy.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Silly to aver that honesty reposes with any given ideology.

Obama could still rescue Obamacare by orchestrating open, transparent, genuinely bipartisan negotiations re how to repair Obamacare.

America is not -- at least yet -- a dictatorship. Health care is not the province of any one party.

The ramming through of Obamacare is a classic example of how not to do public policy.

Sorry sweetcheeks, No Moar "Do Overs" For You!

 

[landslider2000]

It is understandable that people want finality -- certitude, closure.

But every day dawns anew.

Obamacare was not arrived at by honest, open discussion, but in total secrecy and on a purely partisan basis.

Not a single person believes the rationale for the Sup Ct ruling.

After the Ct said the indiv mandate could be construed as a tax, the White House repudiated that the next morning.

So, in a country which is not a dictatorship, at least half the population doesn't like or want Obamacare, and the other half wants to ram it down their throats.

Ergo, controversy continues.

No amount of trolling will alter that.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Silly to aver that honesty reposes with any given ideology.

Obama could still rescue Obamacare by orchestrating open, transparent, genuinely bipartisan negotiations re how to repair Obamacare.

America is not -- at least yet -- a dictatorship. Health care is not the province of any one party.

The ramming through of Obamacare is a classic example of how not to do public policy.

It is understandable that people want finality -- certitude, closure.

But every day dawns anew.

Obamacare was not arrived at by honest, open discussion, but in total secrecy and on a purely partisan basis.

Not a single person believes the rationale for the Sup Ct ruling.

After the Ct said the indiv mandate could be construed as a tax, the White House repudiated that the next morning.

So, in a country which is not a dictatorship, at least half the population doesn't like or want Obamacare, and the other half wants to ram it down their throats.

Ergo, controversy continues.

No amount of trolling will alter that.

Did you steal Vette's "Creative Writing for Dummies" book?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Did you steal Vette's "Creative Writing for Dummies" book?

He's dutifully regurgitating the same talking points over and over, and claimin' victimhood when someone challenges his derpspew.

It's interesting watching him implode in real time.