About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors

itwbennett writes "An estimated one in four user applications sent from HealthCare.gov to insurance providers have errors introduced by the website, an official with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said during a press briefing Friday. The errors include missing forms, duplicate forms and incorrect information in the applications, such as wrong information about an applicant's marital status, said Julie Bataille, communications director for HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). While the software bugs leading to the errors have largely been fixed, as many as 10 percent of insurance applications may still have errors and consumers who have used HealthCare.gov to buy insurance and have concerns that their applications haven't been processed or have errors should contact their insurers, Bataille said."

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Re:They seem to have their priorities correct

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No matter how flawed the law is, no matter how expensive it is going to be, no matter how many fumbles the administration makes, there is this huge hunger for healthcare by a very large section of America. Mostly poor, mostly concentrated on the Red states. Democrats are dangling this carrot in front of them. Republicans are squarely between this stampeding crowd and the carrot they are chasing.

But don't despair, Democrats fumbled by not ramming down single payer or medicare for all, that would have been much simpler to implement. You are going to see the Republicans threading the needle to switch their stand from "repeal" to "fix it". More and more employers are going to follow the lead of Walgreens and Sears. Give a fixed sum of money to their employees and get out of managing a group plan, as Walgreens and Sears have announced already. You will be shopping in the exchange and demanding ACA to be expanded in the coming years my friend. Churches are going to discover they could, for ridiculously small donations from their wealthier congregants, pay the premium for the poorer congregants and "lock" them into their church instead of the competing church. Fundamentally Christianity is socialistic in its ideals. It is an historic anomaly that Church is aligned with the capitalists and not marxists. It will get corrected eventually. Hospitals and providers are going to lobby their state governments to get their hands on the federal money by expanding medicare.

It is going to be very difficult for the Republicans to stand on the side lines and praying for the failure of the program. It ain't gonna happen.