Posted on 12/01/2013 5:39:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
According to Fox News Sunday, the new Healthcare.gov site has not quite achieved the promised “fully functional” status by the November 30th deadline. In fact, the site still can’t verify identities for potential enrollees, which means that consumers can’t be sure they’re seeing the right information for coverage options. After forty-two months of development and nine weeks of futility and failure, this isn’t exactly a confidence-builder (via The Weekly Standard):
“Federal officials promised that healthcare.gov would work smoothly for a vast majority of users starting today. But that has not been the case so far because this morning the critical verification system is unavailable. That’s the system that confirms identities and makes sure people are receiving proper coverage information.
“And applications cannot be submitted without this ant step. The site says this particular problem should be solved within 24 hours. And there is another error much earlier in the process as well. When the site asks if an insurance agent or navigator is assisting you with your application. Ater clicking none of these people are offering any guidance, the next screen incorrectly displays a message declaring the opposite. The banner says, you told us another person is helping you.
“Furthermore, an address associated with healthcare.gov has sent several erroneous e-mails this morning with an alert suggesting that logging in at the website will reveal a new message, however no message ever appeared. Officials have said November 30th was not a magical relaunch date for healthcare.gov, and that like any site, they predict there will be times moving forward when it does not perform optimally.”
A “magical relaunch date”? That was the administration’s initial promise — that all of the bugs would be worked out by December 1, a deadline that is more than just an arbitrary date on the calendar. In order to meet their January 1 deadline for the individual mandate, the site has to be able to enroll millions of people no later than December 23rd — and then the back-end issues have to be fixed, and an entire subsidy payment system launched to ensure that the coverage actually takes effect for those enrolled through Healthcare.gov.
If they still can’t get the front end to verify an enrollee’s identity, just imagine the status of the 834 transmission and subsidy payment infrastructure. And this is after a month-long push to fix these very problems.
A perfect example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It will be on all of the talk shows tomorrow if it isn’t fixed.
The Affirmative Action Presidency continues to excel.
Gosh! Buyin’ insurance is compl’cated!
If it's not W's fault, it's certainly the fault of that Cruz guy.
Validates the IBM study that in complex systems, fixing one bug creates three new ones.
I wonder who’s fault it will and won’t be tomorrow.
Affirmative action can not guarantee a skilled employee or qualified elected official.
“The site says this particular problem should be solved within 24 hours.”
Sure. Like it wouldn’t have been fixed before today if it was that easy. It’s only the part that determines which coverage options are displayed. Lol.
Imagine how horrendous the parts are we can’t see?
obama:
“December 1st in 2014 is what I said. You misheard me and thought I said 2013? I’m sorry you thought that but what I said was 2014. Yes, I’ve seen the tapes of me saying 2013 but the tapes misheard me, too. I guess that’s my bad, but I really said 2014. OK? Clear? Can I eat my waffle now and then go golfing? Mission Accomplished!”
I am so hoping that every hacker worth his salt is doing his level best to punch more holes in that sucker than Snowden did to the NSA. They can strike a blow for whatever against the US government, and if they leave that website a smoking hole in the Internet, they will have done better than Luke Skywalker did against the Death Star.
I’m sure glad that the Dept of Homeland Security doesn’t have anything like these problems in fulfilling their mission....
The operative phrase is ‘should be solved’.
Yes; it should have been solved a very long time ago.
Just like we ‘should have’ a President, a Congress, and a Supreme Court that uphold and abide by the Constitution.
Oh well.
Hmm. I just went to that site and entered my age and household info.
There was a note above my list of possible plans:
“Catastrophic plans hidden. People 30 or older are not eligible for catastrophic plans.”
“Catastrophic plans hidden. People 30 or older are not eligible for catastrophic plans.”
Seems that the catastrophic plans are in plain sight.
“There...Is...No...Sanctuary!”
If only getting rid of Obamacare were so easy.
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