Wednesday, October 30, 2013

House hearing exposes reasons for failure of Healthcare.gov

Coach is Right ^ | 10/30/13 | Suzanne Eovaldi

The Affordable Care Act rollout on October 1st is “one of the biggest IT disasters in government history,” Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA) told four vendors testifying before the House Oversight Committee about what went so horribly wrong with the Healthcare.gov website.

Multiple vendors each seemed confident in assuring legislators that separately, each system worked. But “no beta end to end testing” was completed until just two weeks before the rollout date of October 1! In spite of a lot of double speak and non answers, an official high up in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) apparently offered this statement about ObamaCare enrollees and website plans to a HealthCare.gov vendor:

“YOU’LL GET FINAL QUOTES FOR SPECIFIC PLANS BASED ON YOUR INCOME AND HOUSEHOLD AFTER YOU COMPLETE A MARKETPLACE APPLICATION.”

This website monkey wrench appears to have been a political decision thrown in at the last minute to hide the sticker shock of premium costs...

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