END the INEQUITY of MISERY!!
Posted on 10/14/2013 8:45:38 PM PDT by MrChips
A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.
HHS didn’t want users to see Obamacare’s true costs
“Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering,” report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. “But that tool was delayed, people familiar with the situation said.” Why was it delayed? “An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies.” (Emphasis added.)
As you know if you’ve been following this space, Obamacare’s bevy of mandates, regulations, taxes, and fees drives up the cost of the insurance plans that are offered under the law’s public exchanges. A Manhattan Institute analysis I helped conduct found that, on average, the cheapest plan offered in a given state, under Obamacare, will be 99 percent more expensive for men, and 62 percent more expensive for women, than the cheapest plan offered under the old system. And those disparities are even wider for healthy people.
That raises an obvious question. If 50 million people are uninsured today, mainly because insurance is too expensive, why is it better to make coverage even costlier?
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This political objective—masking the true underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans—far outweighed the operational objective of making the federal website work properly. Think about it the other way around. If the “Affordable Care Act” truly did make health insurance more affordable, there would be no need to hide these prices from the public.
Thanks for posting.
What do they think is going to happen? That prices will magically come down after they have a few years to “recode” the site?
These premiums are ridiculous and cannot possibly be paid. This problem of theirs is simply not going to go away.
Personally, a lot of people need to be brought up on charges. If a private company hid their intent to gouge, the CEO would be brought up on charges (wishful thinking, I know).
How about it’s a way for the government to get you to just give them your personal info?
Hal developed a conscience?
We received our premium update this weekend from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama. My premiums are going from $456 per month to $1099 per month, for the same co-pays, but higher individual deductibles. That’s a 141% increase!
Since they also want you to sign up to vote on the website, I am sure that creates a huge bottleneck situation. lol! I just bet they will attach a fast track for EBT cards too.
That is terrible. And it is the real story of this disaster. The whole thing is an income redistribution scheme, from middle class to poor. I have no insurance, but a 70/30 plan will cost me almost $500 month. And do you remember the traditional 80/20 with $2,500 deductible that sort for $250 or so? Long gone. That same policy today would cost me over $600.
This is real, my actual experience, right now! Not some mystery person in somewhere USA, but me! I am livid! I knew it would go up, but I was expecting 20% or so.
My plan has more than tripled since Fubocare was passed.
Join the crowd as we celebrate!
Instead of “universal healthcare”, we are getting a universal **** job, courtesy of King Fubo, and all the Rats and Rinos in Congress.
I am livid as well. This crime syndicate in the White House has gotten away with murder . . . the “Stimulus” money being funneled to political donors, the scam for Solyndra and companies like it, the IRS attacks on conservatives, the millions of dollars funneled to crooks through identity theft at the IRS (I am a victim), the money for Sandy victim that mysteriously disappeared, and now this fraud. Where did the $653 million for the Obamacare website go? Certainly not into computer technology. And now we just defraud all hard-working Americans of their healthcare in a very subtle, insidious way in order to give it (on the backs of the middle class) to those who don’t work for a living. But, what’s so terrible to me is that they seem to be getting away with it in broad daylight. No one ever points out that the emperor has no clothes. We’ll just have to see if there is enough middle class outrage at election time to overcome the crime syndicate’s machine.
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