I noticed the committee members who gave policy speeches instead of getting right into the questions about the tech problems when they did get to a question, they really had no clue about the technology anyway.
The long speeches were just cover ups to mask their total ignorance of the technology in questions.
Especially that old, pasty white Republican from Texas.
LOL wrote: This sounds confusing, has anyone run into this trying to use the Colorado Exchange? They are requiring a 12 page medicaid application first and then make you wait for a medicaid rejection before you can use the exchange plans? Something sounds not right about that, especially if you are not interested in Medicaid anyway. ???
I tried registering on the Colorado Exchange yesterday. You pick a user ID and password (must have a capital letter, small letter, and number). If you know you don't qualify for a subsidy it's not too hard to find a policy and see the price (though the site doesn't give a lot of details about the policies, you need to go to the insurance company for that).
But if you think you might qualify for a subsidy and see what your policy would actually cost you are now directed to the PEAK Colorado site. There you also need a user ID and an impossible to remember password (same rules as above but must also have a special character in it). Now you must fill out a Medicaid application and that asks far more intrusive questions (like net worth, expenses, income, bank accounts) than required for Obamacare (just income). And you need to check a box agreeing that they can share your "private" info with other government organizations (I think I even saw Homeland Security there). After you fill that out I think you need to wait several days for a person to review it and get back to you, but I quit trying at that point.
Who is really going to go through all of that crap just to find out what a policy might actually cost?
Hugh Hewitt on 710KNUS was talking about this last night. So the young person who doesn't need healthcare isn't going to sit through this tedious process, only the older people with debilitating conditions will. So the expected costs for the first year will actually be more than more than expected, so they will have to raise costs even more for the coming year. The higher costs will discourage healthy people from signing on, etc. Death spiral.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
And you need to check a box agreeing that they can share your "private" info with other government organizations (I think I even saw Homeland Security there).
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And on that note. During the congressional committee hearing (that is currently in progress right now) I heard a Republican committee member waste his whole 5 minutes screaming that the data that is being required to sign up and the fact that the data can be passed on to almost ANY government agency that feels they have a need for it is a violation of the HIPAA privacy laws.
I'm HIPPA certified. I have been dealing with data that is controlled under HIPAA for the last 10 years. My workstation at home passes all HIPAA rules and regulations. My point is I understand HIPAA rules.
I went over the HIPAA rules about what kind of data and data transmissions are considered private and covered by HIPAA regulations.
Unless I'm missing something this congress critter was 100 percent wrong. He either didn't know better, someone on his staff didn't do his/her job in researching HIPAA regulations or the idiot was outright lying and trying to scare the public.
There is nothing I can see with the kind of data that is being collected and then transmitted to the health insurance companies that break any HIPAA rules.
Now... you may have a problem with how the government may be able to pass that info on to other interested agencies, but that's another issue altogether.
LOL wrote: This sounds confusing, has anyone run into this trying to use the Colorado Exchange? They are requiring a 12 page medicaid application first and then make you wait for a medicaid rejection before you can use the exchange plans? Something sounds not right about that, especially if you are not interested in Medicaid anyway. ???
I tried registering on the Colorado Exchange yesterday. You pick a user ID and password (must have a capital letter, small letter, and number). If you know you don't qualify for a subsidy it's not too hard to find a policy and see the price (though the site doesn't give a lot of details about the policies, you need to go to the insurance company for that).
But if you think you might qualify for a subsidy and see what your policy would actually cost you are now directed to the PEAK Colorado site. There you also need a user ID and an impossible to remember password (same rules as above but must also have a special character in it). Now you must fill out a Medicaid application and that asks far more intrusive questions (like net worth, expenses, income, bank accounts) than required for Obamacare (just income). And you need to check a box agreeing that they can share your "private" info with other government organizations (I think I even saw Homeland Security there). After you fill that out I think you need to wait several days for a person to review it and get back to you, but I quit trying at that point.
Who is really going to go through all of that crap just to find out what a policy might actually cost?
Thanks Obama! :faint:
Thanks for your feedback Pine. It sounds like they are following the letter of the ACA law in checking for eligibility, however it makes for an intrusive inefficient sign up process. Makes sense really, after all this is Government at its finest! Glad I have a Grandfathered plan that I am stuck with, for now.
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
LOL wrote: Glad I have a Grandfathered plan that I am stuck with, for now.
Does your grandfathered policy have and price increase cap per year? When the ACA starts to suffer from unbalanced risk pools, I fear all our policies are going to skyrocket.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Rick, I really don't know. I have had increases of 25%, 33% and 15% in the last three years, and I know I can't modify it (change deductible) and the IRS hasn't bothered to get around to qualifying it for a Health savings account, and I've never submitted a claim. Otherwise I'm quite thrilled with it draining my bank account every month.
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
Walter L Newton wrote: "Communications between the administration and contractors improved over the weekend as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began negotiating agreements with contractors on responsibility and deadlines for repairs, people involved in the project say. They hope to have a plan before a Congressional hearing set for Thursday."
They should have been doing this MONTHS before this website opened. "responsibility and deadlines for repairs" that's how it works in the real world. In this situation no one seems to want to take responsibility. In the private corporate world heads would have already rolled and people fired.
Does anyone trust this project with your personal data and the future of your health care?
"Nevertheless, disarray has distinguished the project. In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times. It went live on Oct. 1 before the government and contractors had fully tested the complete system. Delays by the government in issuing specifications for the system reduced the time available for testing."
I always get behind the wheel of my car and figure out later if the brakes are working. In another thread I predicted that the problems were deeper than just a simple "fill out the form" or server load capacities.
I've worked for the Federal government, for 15 years, as a programmer, I'm fully aware of the multitudes or hoops that you are required to jump through. And if there is a kink in anyone of those hoops, the whole process falls into disarray.
The administration and those in charge have used commercial websites and their glitches and held that up to the American public.
Commercial websites rarely try to open, full blown and totally realized. Ebay started on some guys home computer in his apartment, with very little features (I know, I was one of his first registered users).
He scaled the system as he saw demand and added needed features as he saw business opportunities.
The same thing can be said about Amazon, Apple's Itunes Store, airline booking sites and a myriad of other commercial websites that handle millions of transactions.
The administration has admitted to little or no testing of the site before it went live. You just don't do that. That alone shows a total lack of competence in itself.
The internet has been available to the public since around 1992 (I was on it as far back as 1978, yes, the basic infrastructure was in place that long ago, it was called Arpanet/Darpanet, look it up). There are over 20 years of an operational world wide web experience in the private Information Technology community of how to do this right.
The American public deserves better for 600 million dollars. They got squat.
The bolded..... WE,as a nation,have lost all REASONABLE logic......I am an Independent voter (disclaimer here)....IF my first and foremost agenda (as POTUS) was to
leave a legacy of "affordable healthcare for all"......I KNOW I would have made it a priority to
be kept in the loop on the progress of this major piece of my legacy....in fact, I probably would
have been close to micro-managing the project because it would have been THAT imperative and I would NOT want to have failed......the government is well-known for delays,lack of
follow-thru and just good old common sense it is beyond my comprehension
how O allowed this to hit rock bottom....color me livid.
WE,as a nation,have lost all REASONABLE logic......I am an Independent voter (disclaimer here)....IF my first and foremost agenda (as POTUS) was to
