The ACA/ Obamacare Website Fiasco Thread

Well, this is a glowing endorsement.....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-trust-obamacare-site-info/?intcmp=latestnews

Congressional staffers were warned Wednesday not to rely on information provided by the ObamaCare exchange website, in an email alert informing them they might not be enrolled for coverage even if they technically signed up.
The "very important" message, sent to Capitol Hill officials Wednesday afternoon, is the latest sign that the government has concerns about the reliability of the system. Despite improvements in the basic operation of the exchange websites, and increased enrollment, there are lingering concerns about whether those signing up will actually be covered on Jan. 1.

"Please DO NOT ASSUME you are covered unless you have seen the Confirmation Letter from the Disbursing Office!" the email to staffers said.

The email urged staffers who have signed up via the DC Health Link -- the health care exchange for the District of Columbia -- to double check with the office that they're enrolled.

"Do NOT rely on your 'My Account' page or other correspondence from DCHL," the message said.

The message reminded them they haven't enrolled and "will not have health insurance next year" unless they get a confirmation letter.
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I guess we know now what constitutes the "change" in Hope and Change. Anything this administration feels like doing with Obamacare at the drop of a hat.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/20/administration-announces-new-obamacare-exemption/


Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed the changes, which include letting those individuals skirt the law's individual mandate, in a letter to senators. She said she would allow people who got cancellations and could not find affordable new coverage to qualify for a "hardship exemption" in order to avoid a penalty next year for not having insurance.
Further, she announced that those individuals will be able to purchase bare-bones plans that until now were available only for people under 30.
The move, though, to allow potentially hundreds of thousands of people to sign up for "catastrophic" coverage plans was criticized by the insurance industry as a shift that would cause "tremendous instability.”
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SOWT said:
The Insurance Industry gets no pity from me.

They saw this as a cash cow, and embraced it without knowing the details.

STBT!
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This is why the "insurance industry" fully supported the ACA...

When I heard that, I was instantly suspisious. It's like GM supporting a law that everyone has to buy a GM car.
 
0699 said:
This is why the "insurance industry" fully supported the ACA...

When I heard that, I was instantly suspisious. It's like GM supporting a law that everyone has to buy a GM car.
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Wait..dont YOU own a GM vehicle? Hmmmmm? :hmm:
 
Another side effect of Obamacare, intended or unintended? This debacle continues to look worse every day.



http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamacare-shock-strip-assets-dead-seniors/

The government has long been permitted to seek reimbursement for healthcare services by attaching the assets of deceased Medicaid enrollees. But before ObamaCare, an asset test was mandatory for Medicaid applicants and only those with few or no assets could qualify for government provided care. As a result, there was little of value which the state could attach after death.

ObamaCare, however, has done away with the asset test. Eligibility for Medicaid is now dependent only upon income. And at 138% of the federal poverty mark, that eligibility level is much higher than in previous years. Therefore, countless Americans who have accumulated valuable assets yet show little income will now qualify as Medicaid recipients.




Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamacare-shock-strip-assets-dead-seniors/#P2c5Fd2r00o4kthi.99
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Another Healthcare.gov "success" story.

http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20140102/pa-issues-warning-over-medicaid-file-problems

Gov. Tom Corbett’s office is issuing a note of caution to thousands of people who applied for health insurance through the federally run website Healthcare.gov and were found to be eligible or potentially eligible for Medicaid.
Corbett’s office said this week that the federal government has had trouble transferring the electronic files of more than 25,000 applications to the state’s Medicaid agency, and the applicants may find out they’re not enrolled.

It says people who applied through Healthcare.gov and were found eligible or potentially eligible for Medicaid can expect to receive a call from the federal Health Insurance Marketplace Call Center.

It says they’ll be advised to re-apply directly by calling the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. It says coverage will be retroactive to Jan. 1.
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SOWT said:
Actually a good deal for the government.

ACA allows the government to seize estates after death for payment, people think they are putting one over the feds and their heirs watch the estate load up and head to DC.

I'm cool with this.
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If Obamacare hadn't done away with the asset test to qualify for Medicaid, I wouldn't be opposed either. I am fine with the govt being repaid in some way after the person passes away. I don't like the way this happened though. Now, with just the income test, many more people now fall under Medicaid coverage.
 
Another little "glitch" or two...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...nt-handle-info-on-newborns/?intcmp=latestnews

In the latest glitch to emerge regarding the Affordable Care Act system, health officials are telling new enrollees that the federal insurance marketplace will not be able to update their coverage online to reflect the birth of a baby and other life changes.

Instead, parents are being told to contact insurers directly, and then contact the government later on -- when the system is ready to handle it.

Parents will still be able to get new babies covered, but the missing feature on the website represents another step, and just one of several glitches that continue to surface. In certain states, problems have also prevented thousands of would-be Medicaid enrollees from getting coverage.
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But another problem, with Medicaid, was surfacing after the launch. In West Virginia, The Charleston Gazette reports that a glitch caused problems for 18,000 people trying to sign up for coverage.

Of them, 10,000 tried to go through HealthCare.gov but were told they qualified for Medicaid. However, the website reportedly transferred basic files to state officials -- lacking information needed to sign them up for the government program.

Now, state officials are sending those individuals letters telling them to sign up again via the state's Medicaid site. The other 8,000 reportedly tried to sign up for Medicaid through the state, and were told they were ineligible -- however, the information was not transferred to the federal exchanges, as it was supposed to be.

Those individuals, too, are being told to try again to sign up at HealthCare.gov.

Perry Bryant, director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care, told the newspaper that "these people played by the rules" and, because of a glitch, now have a "gap in coverage."

Iowa officials recently reported a similar problem.
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Although they say they dont yet know the actual source of the problem, it makes you wonder. It has been a bad week for folks with Medicaid under the new Obamacare rules.
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2014/01/04/49000-nc-medicaid-cards-mailed-to-wrong-addresses/

North Carolina health officials said Friday that they had inadvertently disclosed the personal information of tens of thousands of children receiving Medicaid coverage, but were tight-lipped about precisely what caused the massive privacy breach.
The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a written release saying that new Medicaid cards for nearly 49,000 children were mailed on Dec. 30 to the wrong people. The information on the cards includes the children’s names, Medicaid identification numbers, dates of birth and the names of their primary care doctors — personal medical data that is supposed to be tightly protected under federal law.
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New federal eligibility rules starting Jan. 1 under the Affordable Care Act allowed the agency to shift medical coverage for more than 70,000 children of low-income families from the state-paid NC Health Choice program to Medicaid.

Diaz said the agency is investigating how the cards were addressed to the wrong people. He said the mistake did not involve either NCTracks or NC FAST, a pair of new problem-plagued computer systems that handle Medicaid enrollments and payments.

Diaz refused to say what the agency’s internal investigation had determined so far about the source of the error, responding to questions by repeating the same prepared talking points.

“We are investigating the matter thoroughly,” Diaz said when pressed for details. “The review is not complete.”
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