Thursday, December 5, 2013

Obamacare Insurance Workaround Reveals Law that Remains Unfinished, Unaccountable, and Unworkable

In October, when it became clear that Obamacare's online enrollment system wasn't functioning, President Obama gave a speech in which he told people who wanted to sign up to contact call centers instead, or fill out pen and paper applications.
This week, the administration announced that it would be employing another manual workaround, this time for critical insurer payment systems. In this case, it's not because the payment system is broken. Instead, it’s because the part of the system that is supposed to both calculate how much money the government owes insurers in premium subsidy and cost-sharing payments and make the appropriate payments simply hasn't been built yet.

http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/05/obamacare-insurance-workaround-reveals-l 

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