Posted on 10/15/2013 7:28:58 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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.
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You're being conned.
Here is a way to find the cost without going to the broken website: http://www.hughchou.org/calc/aca/
Select state from drop down menu then county.
Other calculators by Hugh Chou: http://www.hughchou.org/calc/
Too bad the White Hut isn’t crashing down.
That site had better be better than that Kaiser Foundation site some troll was pushing. Its prices and deductables never added up to what the obamacare site was spitting out.
The Obamanoids don’t want people to get insurance through the website. They want to collect the fines from people for not having insurance. If people can’t get it, or better yet, think that they have it but don’t then it means more money the IRS can steal directly from people’s bank accounts.
Are you sure these are for the Obamacare policies which go into effect in January, 2014? Or are they numbers ofr current rates in 2013? They are significantly lower than the clearly labeled “2014” policies I can find o ehealthinsurance.com. For my state (GA) they also don’t seem to include every insurer (namely Coventry).
How did they differ?
This guy downloaded straight from the site and parsed into states and counties. Only the states that are controlled by the feds are listed. If a state is running their own exchange, it won’t be on this list.
We got to sign up for the coverage in order to find out what is in it?
I can only go by what the guy says at the site but I assume they are the rates for 2014.
The CVS files are for downloading into a spreadsheet so it would be easier to sort.
Does the guy at the site Say it is “2014”? I suppose one way to determine it is to compare some of the numbers to those at the ehealthinsurance.com website, where you can easily go into a 2013 database or a 2014 database.
How much “skim” from all that money will find its way into the RAT party coffers?
They’re just trying to cover up general incompetence. Covering up the extraordinary costs is just a side benefit.
People are used to going to web sites to shop prices and I agree that if they could see the prices upfront they would go no further. By collecting data on those who are just looking, the IRS could easily cross reference who looked but didn’t buy insurance.
Judging from what we’ve heard so far about the quality of this system, I wouldn’t trust any of the data it displays, for accuracy or consistency.
It’s 3 card Monte, a shell game. And I’m not playing.
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