"The federal health-care exchange that opened a dozen days ago is marred by snags beyond the widely publicized computer gridlock that has thwarted Americans trying to buy a health plan."
The problems stem from a feature of the online marketplace’s computer system that is designed to send each insurer a daily report listing people who have just enrolled. According to several insurance industry officials, the reports are sometimes confusing and duplicative. In some cases, they show — correctly or not — that the same person enrolled and canceled several times on a single day."
The ability of consumers to sign up for a health plan, and the ability of the insurers to know who they are covering, is key to the success of the federal law that will for the first time require most Americans to have health insurance starting Jan. 1."
“It’s a glitch that . . . needs to be fixed,” said a spokesman for the plan, who, like most insurers interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the Obama administration."
James Turner, a software engineer from Derry, N.H., said he has spent seven hours since Oct. 2 trying to enroll but keeps encountering issues that make have made it impossible for him to complete the application. Turner, 51, one of a number of software engineers who have written online critiques of the system, said the most infuriating one involves his wife. According to the system, he said, “I have four spouses.”
He said it has been impossible to delete the phantom family members from his profile."
Washington Post
7 comments:
"“I have four spouses.” "
Slooge stooge
Of course, we know where all the info really goes, don't we?
I can hardly wait to give the system all my private and sensitive personal information.
I'm hoping that if I give the government enough of my personal information, then they can just send me a daily email each morning with my schedule of tasks and activities for the day. I will vote for whoever promises the most fun schedules.
The other day someone posted a clip of a congressman telling Andrea Mitchell to stop spinning the news, and at the very end he said (paraphrase), 'all we are asking is for the president to delay implementing the individual mandate. As businesses have received a postponement, individuals should be entitled to one, too. That is all we are asking.'
Of course, we know where all the info really goes, don't we?
The bit bin? The great database in the sky? The Void 1.03?
The only infinite thing in the material universe is incompetence.
Inexperienced, unqualified bigshots and their lapdog minions wrote this bill [i.e picture Obama and Jay Carney].
So they had absolutely no shot at designing a practical, workable bill.
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