'Thought ObamaCare would Steal Your Identify?

Anti Federalist wrote:"...I told you what would happen..."

News Hawk wrote:

Anti Federalist wrote:"...I told you what would happen..."

Yes, you did...

 

fshnski wrote:I'm having a hard time handling how our National Park Service was commandeered by obama's administration. I never would have imagined a president could use the NPS in such a vindictive way. It's harder to believe the NPS, the protectors of our national public lands, went along with obama's scheme to punish Americans by keeping them away from public lands, the lands they had promised to protect.

WHL wrote:Yes, sadly, here we are.  

WHL wrote:"we all" fsh? Not me.  I don't want all that free stuff.  I want to pay my own way as I have always done, the gov. has not done it for me.

Anti Federalist wrote:The future is fail FAIL.

Anti Federalist wrote:

WHL wrote:"we all" fsh? Not me.  I don't want all that free stuff.  I want to pay my own way as I have always done, the gov. has not done it for me.

And we are a distinct minority.

Anti Federalist wrote:

Small comfort.

We're all in same boat, brother.

What the hell to do, is my big question now.

"HHS continues to claim that the exchanges are all about competition—they're even trying to rebrand them as "marketplaces." But real marketplaces are transparent and let consumers know what they get for what price. ObamaCare's exchanges are intended to obscure price and service options.


HHS still refuses to disclose how much taxpayers shelled out for this exchange lemon. The money came from several ObamaCare, general HHS and Medicare accounts and flowed to more than 50 outside vendors, with several no-bid contracts awarded outside the normal procurement process.


Mrs. Sebelius also refuses to reveal basic data about ObamaCare enrollment even as she brags about the millions of people who have supposedly visited Healthcare.gov. Information that would allow outsiders to evaluate the exchanges includes how many people have applied and qualified for coverage so far, what types of health plans they're selecting and what their health risks are.

Mrs. Sebelius claims she doesn't know the answers and that the government will pull such information together in November. Given the farce so far, it makes sense that the CEO of ObamaCare can't or isn't monitoring its day-to-day operations. But this claim is almost certainly false.

The states running their own exchanges report enrollment more regularly, which ranges from the low thousands in big states like California to a single person so far in Delaware. Literally, one. And the HHS-run exchanges are designed to make daily reports, seven days a week.

These reports are known in industry jargon as 834 transactions and they may represent the most serious ObamaCare breakdown. Insurers and the exchanges are supposed to swap electronic files every 24 hours that track the policies consumers select and their subsidies and check their lists against each other. The problem is that the exchanges rarely generate accurate 834s.

Our sources in the insurance industry explain that the 834s so far are often corrupted or in the wrong syntax, and therefore unusable unless processed by hand. In other cases the exchanges spit out multiple 834s enrolling and unenrolling the same user and don't come with time stamps that would allow the insurer to identify the most recent version.

The upshot is that the exchanges, the insurers and the consumers will often have different records on file. These mismatches are an architectural flaw that could persist for years. The administrative-bureaucratic tangle will only become more complex as more people enroll, providers start billing insurers, patients show up in doctors offices thinking they have coverage they don't, and the IRS starts fining Americans for not having insurance.


Before the rollout, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Sebelius likened the exchanges to a new Apple product and asked for forbearance as problems were fixed. But Apple doesn't ship products that don't work and then force everyone to buy them, and a private business executive who supervised a fiasco like this would already have been fired.

The crowd in charge of the country that includes Silicon Valley ought to be ashamed that they can't produce a serviceable website in 2013. A useful act of contrition would be to resign, or, failing that, to beg Congress for a year delay to clean up their wreckage.
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