HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors

PapayaSF writes "The Washington Post reports that roughly 22,000 people have claimed they were charged too much, steered into the wrong insurance program, or denied coverage, but the HealthCare.gov website cannot handle appeals. They've filled out seven-page forms and mailed them to a federal contractor's office in Kentucky, where they were scanned and entered, but workers at CMS cannot read them because that part of the system has not been built. Other missing aspects are said to have higher priorities: completing the electronic payment system for insurers, the connections with state Medicaid programs, and the ability to adjust coverage to accommodate major changes such as new babies. People with complaints about mistakes have been told to 'return to the Web site and start over.'"

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The real answer it obvious, it would have been a whole lot simpler to go with universal health care, charge a 1% premium on everyones income and tie it to the existing social security number. Nope, the Uncle Tom dope had to go with stuffing of private insurance company profits and corporate executive bonuses and then those executives still turned around and attacked the idiot because the crazy complicated scheme eliminated junk policies (ones that charged fees but basically provided zero coverage). Insurance companies wanted compulsory junk policies for the poor, that's where a big chunk of their profits come from, those junk policies for the poor in reality were actually subsidising actual full health insurance policies for the rich.