"...a spokesman for Covered California, said the error was the result of internal miscommunication. ..."
Posted on 10/02/2013 10:47:15 PM PDT by Arthurio
California's health insurance exchange vastly overstated the number of online hits it received Tuesday during the rollout of Obamacare.
State officials said the Covered California website got 645,000 hits during the first day of enrollment, far fewer than the 5 million it reported Tuesday.
The state exchange had cited the 5 million figure as a sign of strong consumer interest and a major reason people had so much difficulty using its $313-million online enrollment system.
Dana Howard, a spokesman for Covered California, said the error was the result of internal miscommunication.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well, when was the last time a rat told the truth? Why should they start now?
Some of the comments on the site are funny.
“but how many actually enrolled??”
“I heard 126 people actually enrolled
yeah !
we are almost there”
They mistakenly gave the numbers of the illegals visiting the ER’s. At our expense of course...
Hmmm so that is where my unemployment money is. Give it!! ugh. Yesterday I did go to the site but hell I did not nor do I want to enroll I simply was curious to see how much. It said I was able to get medicaid. Are they freaking crazy? Doctors are not seeing medicaid patients.
You have got to be kidding?!
If I was a Californian I would be demanding an explanation as to why this system cost that much and why this gold plated colossus immediately failed given that it cost so much.
An hour after this story was released, there was a new story from Dana’s boss saying he’d misunderstood and they hadn’t overstated the hits. That item also pointed out that the Governor’s IT guru had been trying unsuccessfuly for the last two days to complete an enrollment on the state web site. This is the kind of administrative structure that makes chaos look organized.
We may have to enroll. My husband is working for a start up and wants to go do some cntract work.
He had prostate cancer 2 years ago, and we haven’t been able to find other healthcare.
"...a spokesman for Covered California, said the error was the result of internal miscommunication. ..."
But won’t a government monopoly solve all such problems?
Licensed CA insurance agents can't even get into the "agents" section to even register for the certification training should any of them even want to... Phhhhht!!!
I was able to view/print the 33 page enrollment application for individuals and families. And here I have been griping for years about the length of private sector insurance applications. Of course those didn't have to deal with income levels to calculate premium subsidies from other people's taxation confiscation!!!
They are also saying that “about 300” people handled 190,000 phone calls. I really question if they could have answered this many calls, unless most of them were from people asking when the system would be up and running.
So they spent almost a thousand dollars a hit, and still screwed it up!
So they spent almost a thousand dollars a hit, and still screwed it up!
Typical government behavior: “645,000, five million, what’s the difference?”
...using its $313-million online enrollment system...
When government buys $600 hammers they at least drive nails.
California’s enrollment system cost $313 million dollars, and some wonder if we can afford Obamacare.
That $313 million dollars is just a drop in the bucket as to where the costs will zoom as this thing takes off.
...and no matter what the cost, healthcare delivery will collapse and all the insurance in the world won’t matter if you can’t get in to see a doctor.
Health care, or health insurance? I'm pretty sure that any doctor you are willing to pay will provide health care, regardless of your insurance status.
I read somewhere—it might have been an article posted here on FR—about how to set up an automated system to “hit” the website. From the description, a single computer could give one of those websites thousands of hits. I believe the scheme involves a macro to reload the website after a fixed delay, which would register as a separate hit on the website.
I’m not a computer geek, so I’m not exactly sure how that would work, or if it would work.
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