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| Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data |
| 2013-10-20 |
| [Market Watch] Insurers say the federal health-care marketplace is generating flawed data that is straining their ability to handle even the trickle of enrollees who have gotten through so far, in a sign that technological problems extend further than the website traffic and software issues already identified. Krauthammer hit it out of the park yesterday when he said, [paraphrasing a bit here]..... "The irony is, the administration's saving grace was that so few were able to get onto the site". |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Barbara, you are lucky your company could revamp. I no longer have insurance, as spouses of employees and their dependents have been dropped from coverage by necessity. Required to cover children to the age of 26, fully covering drug and alcohol rehab, the company was paying for a 25 yo dependent adult with mental issues from the employee's wife's first marriage. Another spouse was retired and qualified for Medicare but chose to use company insurance as it paid for atrociously expensive treatments the government wouldn't cover. We won't even mention experimental cancer treatments that have been capped at $130, 000. Because insurance is so expensive, the company chose a high deductible group policy and self-insured a subsidy for employees, and has for years, but the new requirements would bankrupt them to continue coverage, taking a $75,000 hit on each person insured. Totally destroying any profit margin, this is a fairly common practice for small businesses...this either forces many onto the Obamacare exchanges reluctantly (like me) or will become a single-payer system by design. Maybe destroying business was the plan all along but I know a lot of Obama fans that are now totally pissed off and we have many new libertarians for 2014. |
| Posted by: Anging Hatfield6648 2013-10-20 22:26 |
| #9 I'm 67, still working, and thank goodness the company I work for provides insurance (which I partly pay for). But they had to completely revamp what they do in order to meet the gummint's requirements and not go broke and make it affordable for us. Bambi and his minions can go to hell. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-10-20 19:59 |
| #8 My wife is 61 and already has insurance. She had to change it once already because of Obama's retreaded HillaryCare (which got shot down when she put it forth). She is less than enthusiastic about signing up for ObamaCare. Her attitude could be described as one of civil disobedience. Our daughter is in business for herself in Texas. She already has insurance. Knowing her, I would say she doesn't respond well to someone saying she has to buy something she doesn't need or want. I would guess she has an attitude of FOAD towards ObamaCare. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-20 16:30 |
| #7 All part of the great plan, I fear. They will say "See, because of Republicans and Tea Partiers fighting Obamacare, it failed. Insurers went out of business because they only got sick old people to sign up. Young healthy people didn't get insurance. Therefore: the only solution is a government run single payer health system" Obama won't be in office to enact it, but you can bet that Hillary will do it. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-10-20 15:23 |
| #6 "applications" - that means they hit the first screen. If there were anything other than a total collapse in ENROLLMENTS, they'd have the number handy. So, they know the number of applications, but not enrollments? That bullshit. They're lying. It's a disaster for them |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-10-20 15:19 |
| #5 476,000 ObamaCare applications filed |
| Posted by: Goober Prince of the Brontosaurs1840 2013-10-20 15:11 |
| #4 Enjoy, fools, as you live in your parents' basement, jobless and hopeless. Posted by Barbara They can't help it Barb, they're the products of 40 years of communist academic indoctrination and guilt. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-20 14:50 |
| #3 "Many of them are awakening to this costly Ponzi scheme and the attendant impending financial disaster." The same idiots who help get this hopey-changey clown elected and re-elected. Enjoy, fools, as you live in your parents' basement, jobless and hopeless. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-10-20 14:41 |
| #2 Many young people are unwilling to sign on for this debacle. Many of them are awakening to this costly Ponzi scheme and the attendant impending financial disaster. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-20 11:16 |
| #1 And considering that insurers are limited on administrative costs... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-20 09:02 |