Posted on 10/18/2013 5:25:56 AM PDT by Beave Meister
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.
The flaws could do lasting damage to the law if customers are deterred from signing up or mistakenly believe they have obtained coverage.
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HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A half-billion dollars and they have the wrong data...
(I think some programmers may be a little more conservative than we thought - it would be so easy to program this to fail)
No problema. The criminal illegals running
the program from Peru and Pakistan will just
MAKE UP THE “data”, ... and the MEM will lie
to cover it all up, as usual.
It put the Obamacare on its skin or it gets the hose again.
Methinks that if placing an order is this screwed up, just wait until the fulfillment stage (acutally getting care for something...)
outsourcing to India has LONG AGO ceased to be an attractive option
They seem to be giving Computer Science degrees out in cereal boxes these days and hiring anyone to do tech cupport
Watch “slumdog millionaire” to see what it really looks like in IT there
It may be cheap, until you gotta hire someone like me to tear it apart and fix it (at twice the original price PLUS whatever you paid them)
Good I hope the woes double!
From listening to various news reports, it appears that folks with pre-existing conditions and those placed in Medicaid are among the many to register and if lucky enrolled. I guess we pay for that in taxes! Thanks John Roberts....
I can’t imagine why anyone would put personal and financial information on a site that’s this flawed.
Young adults who only come up from their smart phones for air don’t have a clue that they are required to purchase insurance or pay a fine.
They won’t know the scoop until the IRS chases them down in a couple of years.
We pay the subsidies for low income people, but young, healthy folks are going to pay for those with pre-existing conditions.
Psst...don’t tell them - they don’t know it yet.
They had to hire temporary workers? Does that mean they don’t have to cover them under Obamacare?
hahahaha! Coffee and laughter...the morning is off to a good start.
“Young adults who only come up from their smart phones for air don’t have a clue that they are required to purchase insurance or pay a fine.”
So well stated, so factual. I know so many people that don’t watch any news at all, want no part of participating in politics (such as voting), and only care about today and what’s happening in their bubble.
These are the true low information people, literally.
It won't matter how bad it gets Obamacare will NEVER EVER go away. As bad as it will get for us it will always be too attractive a means of coercion for the state. And after all, thats who it was invented for.
It needs to be actively eradicated.
Thank God for Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
Combine that with tens of millions of illegals and identity theft and you will be very lucky, indeed, if the medical chart your doctor is looking at has anything to do with you. You go in for a heart catheterization but come out with an amputated foot because the other person using your identity has advanced diabetes.
I'm reminded of the Lifelock tv commercials like this one, but think medical records instead of financial records.
Maybe they should have let the NSA build the systems. They seem to have a lot of expertise capturing American’s personal information. /sarc
I can’t imagine why anyone would put personal and financial information on a site that’s this flawed.
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This system will, in short order, be a hacker’s paradise. The scope of information security breeches will be breathtaking. With so many people having access to so much data, such breeches are inevitable.
This will be another disaster that the Dems will try to spin as “growing pains”.
Interesting that you mentioned Lifelock. I was thinking about this last night. If you get heath care through the Exchanges what’s the point of having such protection? It wold seem that your personal information will be vulnerable regardless of whether you have Lifelock or not.
Obamacare. From the same political ideology that brought you the Yugo.
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