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Meanwhile,
Obamacare's Roll-Out is Still a Stunning Failure
by Guy Benson
Oct 10, 2013
Is a one-year delay of Obamacare's mandate tax starting to go
mainstream? In elite circles, that is -- the American people have hated
that tax from the get-go. On Monday, Jon Stewart grilled HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius over the administration's unequal treatment of big
business vs. small businesses, families, and individuals. That
interview culminated in Stewart wondering aloud if Sebelius' answers
were lies. Then came CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who suggested yesterday that
maybe the GOP was onto something with their delay demands. The law is
obviously not ready, he reasoned, why not shelve it for a year and get
some of the kinks worked out?
It's perfectly sensible, of course, but it's a nonstarter at the White
House. Why? Because, one presumes, a delay would be both (a) an
admission of failure from an arrogant crowd that's still peddling this
nonsense, and (b) a political victory for Obama's biggest enemies. A
harmful, humiliating trainwreck is evidently preferable to bruising The
One's ego any further, so expect to keep reading a lot of these stories
as the "third world experience" careens forward:
Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in
light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking to
phone support today have been told that all user passwords are being
reset to help address the site's login woes. And the tech supports
behind Healthcare.gov will be asking more users to act in the name of
fixing the site, too. According to registrants speaking with Ars,
individuals whose logins never made it to the site's database will have
to re-register using a different username, as their previously chosen
names are now stuck in authentication limbo....The contractors
responsible for the exchange...are scrambling to deploy more fixes.
Technical support call center operators continue to handle an onslaught
of calls from users who can't get back into the system after
registering. In addition to would-be Healthcare.gov registrants
notifying Ars about the password reset and login limbos, Ars learned
that changes made to profiles already within the system may not be
saved either—a problem that is only indicated by a very non-descriptive
error message.
So the small number of people who have enrolled are already having
their passwords reset, and their profiles may not have saved properly
within the system. Also, as we learned on Tuesday, enrollee data is not
being transmitted properly to insurance companies, which will likely
result in coverage disruptions. In short, people who think they've
signed up might, in fact, be signed up for nothing at all. And how many
of those people even exist? Prominent Democrats are either saying "get
back to us," or -- comically -- that it's "unfair" to ask such a
question. The people whose job it is to know the answer to that
question remain in the dark:
Iowa’s insurance commissioner says he doesn’t know if any Iowans have
managed to sign up for policies on the government’s new health
insurance exchange. The exchanges, also known as online marketplaces,
have been plagued with technical problems since opening last Tuesday.
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart said Tuesday that he has not
heard of any Iowans successfully enrolling via the new system.
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