Healthcare.gov is fixed!!!

The reviews are in...

The mistakes include failure to notify insurers about new customers, duplicate enrollments or cancellation notices for the same person, incorrect information about family members, and mistakes involving federal subsidies. The errors have been accumulating since HealthCare.gov opened two months ago, even as the Obama administration has been working to make it easier for consumers to sign up for coverage, the government and industry officials said.

Figuring out how to clean up the backlog of errors and prevent similar ones in the future is emerging as the new imperative if the federal insurance exchange is to work as intended. The problems were the subject of a meeting Monday between administration officials and a new “Payer Exchange Performance Team” made up of insurance industry leaders.

http://www.washingtonpost.com//national ... story.html

Another online security expert—who spoke at last week's House hearing and then on CNBC—said the federal Obamacare website needs to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch. Morgan Wright, CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations said: "There's not a plan to fix this that meets the sniff test of being reasonable."

But on CNBC, Kennedy disputed those claims, saying vulnerabilities remain on "everything from hacking someone's computer so when you visit the website it actually tries to hack your computer back, all the way to being able to extract email addresses, users names—first name, last name—[and] locations."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101225308

Rogers: WH wouldn’t brief us on Healthcare.gov security gaps – even in closed session

It’s so bad, Rogers warns, that the White House refused to brief Congress on the known risks and attacks that have already taken place — even in closed session. “That’s just unconscionable,” Rogers says, especially when the same people who won’t brief them are cajoling people to put their identity information at risk:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/03/r ... d-session/

With Three Weeks Left, Consumers Fear They May End Up Without Health Coverage On New Year’s Day

Tambra Momi has been eagerly awaiting the promise of guaranteed health insurance. Since 2011, she has battled Dercum's disease, a rare and painful condition in which non-cancerous tumors sprout throughout her body, pressing against nerves. Jobless and in a wheelchair, Momi needs nine different drugs, including one costing $380 a month, to control the pain and side effects. No insurer has been willing to cover her, she says, except a few that have taken her money and then refused to pay for her medications.

Yet her effort to sign up for the health law's coverage has been painful in its own way. Momi, a resident of Fort Mohave, Ariz., hasn’t been able to complete an application on the federal healthcare.gov website. Three attempts to submit an application over the phone haven’t panned out. Once when she called back, she says she was told they had no record of the application. Another time, officials told her they could see the application but couldn’t open it.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories ... blems.aspx

Weeks of frantic technical work appear to have made the government’s health care website easier for consumers to use. But that does not mean everyone who signs up for insurance can enroll in a health plan.

The problem is that the systems that are supposed to deliver consumer information to insurers still have not been fixed. And with coverage for many people scheduled to begin in just 30 days, insurers are worried the repairs may not be completed in time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/busin ... wanted=all

It's like putting lipstick on a pig. The pig may look better, but it's still a pig. The administration is more worried about style over substance. That may work for a Hollywood movie, but when Americans health is in jeopardy, failure is not an option.

Good intentions are all that matters, not results. If results mattered, they would have built the complete website and tested it before launching.

As an INDY, I will comment......because the right wing has indicated that NO ONE on the other
side is brave enough to step up.

I have followed the articles,I watched C-Span for the entire 3 1/2 hours of testimony on this
fubar, so I am semi-educated on the topic.

THIS fubar will be around for a very long time, it will takes YEARS to accomplish a reasonable
facsimile of success....get use to it. I will reiterate, I went thru divestiture with AT&T.....(on
the job)....the process is the same.

YES, I know this concerns the HEALTH of the collective public,I will say again, the consumer
is required to be educated when it comes to their body/health. The paradigm is BROKEN.....
for a very long time and the consumer has been woefully negligent in being proactive and being
FULLY engaged in the health of their bodies.

Inattentiveness equals GIGO (garbage in garbage out).......JMO

Looks like ACA will be Obama's legacy. Will it run by the time he is gone?

homeagain wrote: As an INDY, I will comment......because the right wing has indicated that NO ONE on the other
side is brave enough to step up.

I have followed the articles,I watched C-Span for the entire 3 1/2 hours of testimony on this
fubar, so I am semi-educated on the topic.

THIS fubar will be around for a very long time, it will takes YEARS to accomplish a reasonable
facsimile of success....get use to it. I will reiterate, I went thru divestiture with AT&T.....(on
the job)....the process is the same.

YES, I know this concerns the HEALTH of the collective public,I will say again, the consumer
is required to be educated when it comes to their body/health. The paradigm is BROKEN.....
for a very long time and the consumer has been woefully negligent in being proactive and being
FULLY engaged in the health of their bodies.

Inattentiveness equals GIGO (garbage in garbage out).......JMO

So... just because the " consumer has been woefully negligent in being proactive and being FULLY engaged in the health of their bodies" that gives the administration some leeway in f'king up the system even further.

"Inattentiveness equals GIGO." That's typical lefty talk. When the crap hits the fan, blame it on the consumer. Blame it on the insurance companies. Spin and deflect.

This is Obama and the left's party... all the way.

The "legacy" will take the same trajectory that Hillary finds herself in (both when she was
First Lady ATTEMPTING the same issue,and as Secy. of State and her nemesis Benegazhi.)

The system will EVENTUALLY work, it will require massive manpower to accomplish that.

Large scale change is ALWAYS messy.sometimes less so, sometimes MORE so......in this case,
we have MORE complications because of blatant lack of oversight.....I am livid at the POS for
allowing the lack of oversight to demolish his "legacy".(there is NO excuse). JMO

homeagain wrote: The "legacy" will take the same trajectory that Hillary finds herself in (both when she was
First Lady ATTEMPTING the same issue,and as Secy. of State and her nemesis Benegazhi.)

The system will EVENTUALLY work, it will require massive manpower to accomplish that.

Large scale change is ALWAYS messy.sometimes less so, sometimes MORE so......in this case,
we have MORE complications because of blatant lack of oversight.....I am livid at the POS for
allowing the lack of oversight to demolish his "legacy".(there is NO excuse). JMO

It's much simpler than "it will require massive manpower to accomplish that." It will require massive taxpayer monies to accomplish all that.

BUT, the taxpayer has been subsidizing this issue.....WHO pays for the services when the indigent/functioning poor walk into the Emer Room and require healthcare? (we all have been
paying the bill) UNFORTUNATELY for the poor, that subsidy to the hospital is being DELETED
at the first of the year.....(as I understand it).

There is NO way out of this maze, it requires an system wide overhaul....THAT takes, time,$$$$,
manpower and fortitude.

JMO
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Fallout...

Dorathy Senay’s doctor had some bad news after her last checkup, but it wasn't about her serious blood disorder called amyloidosis. Her Medicare Advantage managed care plan from UnitedHealthcare/AARP is terminating the doctor's contract Feb. 1.

The company is the largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the country, with nearly 3 million members. More than 14 million older or disabled Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, an alternative to traditional Medicare that offers medical and usually drug coverage but members have to use the plan’s network of providers.

The Affordable Care Act phases in reductions in government payments to Medicare Advantage plans -- $156 billion over 10 years -- to bring the program into line with the costs of caring for seniors in traditional Medicare.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories ... ctors.aspx

Yea... I know... it's the seniors fault.

Medicare advantage plans have been a money maker for insurance companies for too long, and many seniors don't realize that they can cost more than straight medicare. One example (there are many), physical therapy costs about $75/visit, medicare will pay 80% of the cost, patient pays $15. medicare advantage plans require the patient to pay $50/ PT visit. We found after mr archer was on an advantage plan that straight medicare and a supplement plan were more cost effective and you can see any doctor that takes medicare. I'm glad to see them start cracking down on the issuers of advantage plans.