Posted on 12/21/2013 7:33:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
How did Oregon manage to go from one of the most enthusiastically pro-ObamaCare, gung-ho exchange-builders in the country to these shambles of lost administrative dignity? Two of their highest-ranking officials in charge of coordinating what they for months advertised as what would be a smooth, online, and hipster-friendly insurance-buying experience are already on the outs, and the 400 or so navigators they hired when they realized (too late) that they were in over their heads haven’t been quite enough to cope with the logistical struggle of signing people up for government-run insurance minus a functional website. Ergo, reports The Oregonian:
Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange began robocalling applicants Friday, warning them that if they don’t receive enrollment confirmation by Monday, they should seek coverage elsewhere for Jan. 1.
“If you haven’t heard from us by Dec. 23, it is unlikely your application will be processed for Jan. 1 insurance coverage,” a woman’s voice on the pre-recorded call from Cover Oregon says. “If you want to be sure you have insurance coverage starting Jan. 1, you have other options.”
It’s yet another sign that the health insurance exchange’s technological breakdowns will prevent some — perhaps many — Oregonians from getting subsidized coverage Jan. 1, despite Gov. John Kitzhaber’s previous assurances otherwise. Out of more than 65,000 applicants, the exchange reports enrolling nearly 30,000, but only about 11,000 of them in private insurance plans.
The calls also suggest the exchange’s problems will prevent many of those individuals from receiving tax credits or subsidies in January, even though they qualify for them.
Er… why are they just telling insurance-seeking Oregonians this now? If they really have 11,000 people now enrolled in private plans, then they have been making some very slow but steady progress on the larger heap of applications they have going over the past week or so — but they must have known for awhile now that there was no way in heck they were going to be able to process the lot of the applications submitted by December 23rd in time to begin coverage January 1st, what with the slow and often erroneous processing that is part and parcel of doing things via paper application. This really is turning into an unmitigated logistical nightmare — and just in time for Christmas!
But this is more than sad...peoples lives are threatened....
It is more than sad, it’s criminal - literally.
To put it in context:
LONDON, June 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.”
The British NHS is a government run "single player"
Scale up the population size from UK to USA (about X6) and you get over 750,000 euthanizing events a year in the USA under "single player"
The Social Security bill which turned into a law....had roughly sixty pages. You could have read it in a couple of hours, and was at that stage in the mid-1930s of being simple enough that a high graduate could understand it.
I agree...if we were doing social security today form scratch....it’d be over 4,000 pages, and likely a bigger failure from the start than this.
An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.”
The British NHS is a government run “single player”
Scale up the population size from UK to USA (about X6) and you get over 750,000 euthanizing events a year in the USA under “single player”
Moral of the story - don’t get old.
Social Security was the ultimate Ponzi scheme.
Well, the important thing is that Obama feels bad about it.
We are seeing the “planned to fail” scenario being played out. Where is zero? he’s on vacation playing golf, where’s the reigme? thier on holiday. They stole 600 million dollars on a program they knew wouldnt work They have managed to strangle the insurance companies, force them to drop everyone purposley to lead everyone to thier non existant program. They lit the fuse and closed the door behind them.
Liberal fantasies - Oregon was a “shining gem” for the monstrosity and it turns out that it was all a bunch of liberal leg tingling, pant wetting, Hope for the Exchange instead of being based in reality.
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