Boston Globe: 'Massachusetts. may give up on still-failing health website'

American Thinker ^ | 03/01/2014 | Peter Wilson

[SeekAndFind]

Following the passage of  RomneyCare in 2006, the state of Massachusetts set up a prototype of the Obama health care exchanges called the Massachusetts Health Connector. It was a simple website that listed plans offered by various health insurers and it seemed to work fairly well. Although I did not support RomneyCare, I hoped that by getting ahead of the healthcare.gov train wreck, Massachusetts residents would be unaffected by the destructive Obamacare rollout.

It turns out I was very wrong. The Boston Globe reports this week:

The [Health Connector] website, created under Massachusetts’ 2006 landmark health insurance law, worked well for several years. But it was overhauled last year to meet the more complicated demands of the Affordable Care Act — by CGI, the same company that designed the federal health insurance website, which also had a disastrous rollout this fall.

While the performance of the federal site has improved markedly, the Massachusetts site continues to have serious problems.

The website has been locking users out of accounts and providing confusing error messages. And parts of the system designed to automatically determine applicants’ eligibility for tax credits and to deliver key information to insurers simply have not worked. The flaws prompted the state to stop paying CGI on its $68 million contract — of which $15 million has been paid — and to bring in Optum, a separate health care technology firm, to fix the problems.

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Because of the problems, thousands of people have been unable to buy subsidized insurance through the Connector. The state has given them temporary coverage through the state Medicaid program. Others were allowed to keep expiring plans.

[DBrow]

“by CGI, the same company that designed the federal health insurance website, “

Indictments yet?

[ClearCase_guy]

RomneyCare wasn't good, but it "worked".

ObamCare broke it. ObamaCare broke everything. As intended.

Obama basically "took off and nuked it from orbit" It was the only way to be sure that Single Payer could ride in and rescue everyone.

[Diogenesis]

RomneyCARE does not work.
RomneyCARE = ObamaCARE = Redistribution

[griswold3]

ObamCare broke it. ObamaCare broke everything. As intended.
Repeat. As intended

[Colonel_Flagg]

Although I did not support RomneyCare, I hoped that by getting ahead of the healthcare.gov train wreck, Massachusetts residents would be unaffected by the destructive Obamacare rollout.

That's like saying you'd dive off a 10-meter diving platform into a pool you know is empty just so you can hit the cement first.

[DBrow]

That’s the Marxist/Alinsky way. Destroy everything and rebuild as a Marxist/Fascist operation.

I met Marian Wright Edelman and she flat out said that’s what she does when “helping” an organization restructure.

0bama DID promise us a complete transformation of America, here it comes!

0bamacare is designed to totally screw up medical care, insurance, privacy, and living to be 80.

[minnesota_bound]

Jimmy Fallon stated on the Tonight Show when Michelle obama (terrorist supporter) was on that the obamacre website is working now.

Hmmm... maybe the crack web masters should help the Massachusetts site get up and running....

[trebb]

RomneyCARE does not work.

RomneyCARE = ObamaCARE = Redistribution

Romney Care was legal and constitutional at a State level (even if it was a POS thing to do to Massachusetts) and even Romney knew the difference in that it was not legal/constitutional at a Federal/National level.

The Dims keep blaming Bush and then there are those who are obsessed with blaming Romney. What is the real difference between them? Would that make another equation like:

Blaming Bush is a Left-Wing tactic based on Sick Minds.

Blaming Bush = Blaming Romney = Sick Minds in Action?

Just asking...I see most are ignoring you these days and thought you might be getting lonely.