ObamaCare on Life Support?
It’s nice to think, anyway. A little hope for change on a Monday morning, from National Journal:
There’s nothing that Democrats want more than to change the subject from Obamacare, despite DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s protestations otherwise. Congressional Democrats don’t want to be dealing with a drip-drip of news about premiums going up, patients losing their doctors, and a broken health care website as they face angry voters in 2014. Hillary Clinton doesn’t want this issue lingering past the midterms. She hitched her presidential prospects to President Obama’s wagon and she’s not about to let someone else’s crisis damage her presidential ambitions yet again, Even Vice President Joe Biden, who called the health care law a “big f—ing deal,” didn’t mention it once at a fundraiser last week for North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan.
Unless the HealthCare.gov website miraculously gets fixed by next month, there’s a growing likelihood that over time, enough Democrats may join Republicans to decide to start over and scrap the whole complex health care enterprise. That became clear when even Obama, to stop the political bleeding, offered an administrative fix that threatened the viability of the entire individual exchange market to forestall a House Democratic mutiny the next day. It was as clear sign as any that the president is pessimistic about the odds that the federal exchange website will be ready by the end of the month, as promised.
More than anything, politics is about self-preservation, and the last two weeks provided numerous examples of how public opinion has turned so hard against the law that even its most ardent supporters are running for the hills.
And now, some humor from SNL, courtesy of Hot Air:
UPDATE: It worked! ObamaCare has been repealed, per Andy Borowitz:
Faced with a barrage of new questions about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama cut short a White House press conference today, telling the stunned press corps, “You know what? Everybody can keep their damn insurance.”
Glaring at the reporters, the President continued, “You heard me. If your insurance is crappy, then you just go ahead and keep it—the crappier, the better. Let’s pretend this whole thing never happened.”
A vein in his forehead visibly throbbing, the President added, “You know, I really wish I hadn’t spent the last three years of my life on this thing. I should’ve just gone around invading countries for no reason. That would’ve made everybody happy. Well, live and learn.”
Heh.
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 11/18/2013 @ 7:53 ampivot to “jobs” in t-minus 10
9
8
hah
then the employer mandate kicks in
poor maladroit foodstamp painted has himself into a fascist lil corner
can even his ever-loyal supine lapdog propaganda slut media save him?
It’s all up to Jon Stewart I think.
If he decides to let them get away with a propaganda campaign to salvage something of foodstamp’s cachet, they’ll probably get away with it to some degree.
But if Jon decides to poke holes in their lil rescue boat, then the whole kit n kaboodle will be lost at sea.
I don’t know Jon Stewart well enough to speculate – I just know he leans pretty heavily towards Team Foodstamp.
happyfeet (8ce051) — 11/18/2013 @ 8:01 amhrm…
*has* painted himself I mean
kooky
happyfeet (8ce051) — 11/18/2013 @ 8:21 amI officially predict that just about anything will happen next.
And if it is good for the country, Ag80 is for it,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/18/2013 @ 8:34 amif it is bad for the country, Ag80 is against it.
We promise, no take-backs.
Ag80 2016
I was saying just a couple of months ago that we’d see bipartisan calls for repeal by the end of the year.
… and my prediction comes true in 10, 9, 8 …
SPQR (768505) — 11/18/2013 @ 8:40 amI think it will be repealed too.
In the article, it’s noted that he uses the snide term “sob stories” about people losing their insurance. So, sob stories supporting liberal views are okay, but not for the conservative side?
LAT built a newspaper on liberal sob stories!
Patricia (be0117) — 11/18/2013 @ 8:51 amNo, the Times used to be very staunch up until the 60s, then it all went blanc mange since then,
narciso (3fec35) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:01 amHey, when you’ve lost Walter R. Mead (and in a big way) teh end is near.
Colonel Haiku (8a31be) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:23 amI just had a thought: considering the secrecy with which this president has wrapped himself and his administration, I wonder what his presidential library will look like?
You walk into a grand hall, festooned with paintings of Teh One, and beneath a spotlight in the center of the room, two pedestals bearing his two (Auto?)biographies.
‘Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Pious Agnostic (c45233) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:24 amOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
i’d like to see a skit where they put poor stupid emperor-has-no-clothes foodstamp on miley’s wrecking ball
happyfeet (c60db2) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:24 amhttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/11/18/the-most-shocking-obamacare-revelation/
Colonel Haiku (8a31be) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:26 amWe (both the influential as well as the unfamous) in opposition to Ocare must use every opportunity to talk about it publicly. All the damn time. Any and all efforts from the left and media to change the subject or create a distraction must be met with Obamacare talk and more Obamacare talk. The administration with their incompetence, lies and lack of concern for American policy holders who are losing both their insurance and doctors has handed us a club. We need to use it wisely and often to get this sucker repealed.
elissa (c9c733) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:32 amThat is a very good article that you just linked, Colonel Haiku.
elissa (c9c733) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:37 amAmen, elissa. They will be playing a game of SQUIRREL the likes of which we havent seen since the last election. Watch for a tsunami of waronwimynz SSM minimum wage class warfare racist BS.
JD (5c1832) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:40 amthank you, Col.
mg (31009b) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:43 amA MUCH simpler plan that achieves some of the goals:
1. Repeal the ACA entirely and return to the status quo ante.
2. Make group plans partially taxable (perhaps 30% of value taxable).
3. Use the tax revenue to buy down the current high-risk HIPAA plans.
4. Use the tax revenue to create a voucher system for the working poor.
5. Expand Medicaid, but by a smaller amount.
This avoids the problem caused by dumping all the expensive patients on the small individual marketplace, does not require a mandate, keeps the current system, removes government control, and creates an incentive on all to keep the cost of plans down. If they really want to put conditions on plans, they can do that with the voucher and HIPAA plans that they are subsidizing.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:44 amJD, good to see a post. How bad are things in your neighborhood?
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:44 amWe were fortunate, MD. The worst of the storms went just to the north of us, by just a few miles, and a few farther to the south. They really went around our immediate area. We lost a couple windows to flying debris, and lost power for a few hours, but in general, all is well.
JD (5c1832) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:46 am“sob stories”
Liberalism is built on sobs stories. They are liberalism’s raison d’etre. When a liberal starts deriding sob stories, it’s like a conservative deriding history.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:49 amThe more I read about this Obamacare rollout fiasco…the more it seems to remind me so much of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
The President was so insulated with yes-men, that he’s now walking naked down the street.
DejectedHead (a094a6) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:55 amHaiku (#11):
You realize of course, that Obama is claiming that he is far less involved and on top of things than Ronald Reagan was. For a Democrat, that is a very low bar.
Empty chair indeed.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:57 amThe link to the article by Gloria Borger at Time in Colonel’s link above is even more damning,
JD (5c1832) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:01 am#9:
And Obama probably views himself as the King of kings.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:02 amThey either repeal it now, or after a few Senators get chased through the streets ala Dan Rostenkowski (remember the great Medicare Fix of 1988?).
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/18/2013 @ 11:42 amJust to check- you do know the borowitz column is satire, not real, right?
Tlaloc (504b91) — 11/18/2013 @ 11:46 amThe worst part of Obamacare has yet to hit. Employer health plans just make no sense once the employer mandate kicks in, and you are going to see a wave of cancellations that make October-November of this year look like child’s play.
Hadlowe (33cc56) — 11/18/2013 @ 11:54 amThe worst part of Obamacare has yet to hit.
That depends who you are. If you are one of the 5 million forced to defray the costs of millions of really sick people (while everyone else is still on the sidelines), you probably think this is pretty bad already.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:08 pmI don’t understand why our pals Tlaloc, Kman, and Perry have made themselves so scarce around here when it is so obvious that ObamaCare is such a success.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:11 pmYou’d think they’d want to rub it in our faces. Or something.
The repeal of the catastrophic 1988 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act as explained by a saner NY Times.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:13 pmJD–the comments to Gloria Borger’s article are brutal.
rochf (f3fbb0) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:27 pmThe real problem with the 1988 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act was that it did not cover catastrophic illnesses. That was stripped out of the bill as too costly (being mainly long-term nursing home costs).
Lots of other Democrat wishlist items were added, that the elderly did not want, and a tax was imposed on retirees to pay for them.
At least they called it a tax.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:51 pm30. Comment by Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 12:51 pm
The real problem with the 1988 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act was that it did not cover catastrophic illnesses. That was stripped out of the bill as too costly (being mainly long-term nursing home costs).
The New York Times article today says it as the opposite.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/us/politics/lesson-is-seen-in-failure-of-1989-law-on-medicare.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all
Lots of other Democrat wishlist items were added, that the elderly did not want, and a tax was imposed on retirees to pay for them.
At least they called it a tax.
No, they called it a premium.
Do you notice, by the way, how much lower the insurance premiums were than they are now?
This is a contemporary article:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/09/us/retreat-congress-catastrophic-care-debacle-special-report-new-medicare-law-fell.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 1:15 pmThere was also a surtax. Only on people over the age of 65. With incomes over $35,000.
It seems like what was left of it after repeal was some prevention the bankruptcy of those with spouses in nursing homes, and a requirement that states provide health benefits to pregnant women and infants.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 1:19 pmIt is high time that ObamaCare must stand before the death panel. Or something.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/18/2013 @ 1:42 pmNot to fear, yahoos
Colonel Haiku (1d6084) — 11/18/2013 @ 1:52 pmHis new “Zone of Competence”
ensures engagement
No… wait. He wants a Zone of Immunity for Truth-Tellers, so that His lack of giving two sh*ts about His Job Responsibilities doesn’t sneak up and bite YOU on your ass.
Colonel Haiku (fcc20b) — 11/18/2013 @ 1:55 pmPresident Empty Chair, indeed.
Thank you for the link, Colonel Haiku.
Good to hear you’re OK, JD.
htom (412a17) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:02 pmHe’s got just twelve days
Colonel Haiku (90595d) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:02 pmthat’s all He’s got
twelve days His brain hurts a lot
It’s not that Obamacare doesn’t care (about the website working) it’s that he is not on the lookout for failure.
Not only does he not know how to prevent it, he really doesn’t have the concept that, with careful attention, it can be prevented.
In his world, if you hire the people with the right credentials, the job gets done if it at all possible to do it. All people who went through the proper hoops are equally skilled.
His conception of failure, if anything, is that that is what happens when people goof off on the job, or when it is beyond anybody’s capability.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:40 pmAll Obama was interested in was that people were devoting enough time to getting the website ready and had a paper plan.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:44 pmC’mon,Sammy, he had no interest whatsoever… it’s all a big surprise.
Colonel Haiku (ee5253) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:47 pmI do not know if Obama really had no idea of the status of the ObamaCare website, or whether he did but underestimated the amount of moaning and political pressure.
But I do know this:
Ag80 would never be so removed from important events under his administration, he would never lie about it, and he wouldn’t be arrogant and condescending, even when he is right.
Ag80 2016
Why would you vote for anyone else???
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:47 pmReally, give me a good reason.
I missed this correction in the 1989 article. In 1989, I guess, corrections were not put into the body of the article.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:48 pmObama was going around, and earlier, planning to go around, promoting the website, so of course he had an interest in hearing that everything was on track.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/18/2013 @ 2:51 pmIf Obama had this interest you claim he had, Sammy, how was he caught unawares that it wasn’t even close to being ready? Which is he lying about… that he had an interest, or that he had no clue it was a disaster… a traveshamockery???
Colonel Haiku (2bcc2f) — 11/18/2013 @ 3:32 pmA or B???
Colonel Haiku (2bcc2f) — 11/18/2013 @ 3:33 pmIf I find out Sammy’s in on Teh Big Con, I… I… why I don’t know what I will do.
Colonel Haiku (2bcc2f) — 11/18/2013 @ 3:35 pmSammy, Sammy, Sammy,
If Obama were reallllllly surprised and upset that the website is a disaster, he would have fired his staffers for failing to communicate to him that the people working on the website had expressed concerns that it might not work.
After all, his staffers have submitted to insane ridicule and humiliation—have they not ?
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/18/2013 @ 5:45 pmSo Megyn Kelly just disclosed that counter to Obama’s assertion on 11/14/13 that only the privately insured would be adversely impacted by the deficient “grandfather clause”, his DOJ filed a brief (on 10/17/13) in federal court that states the majority of those covered by group healthcare plans would also lose their coverage for the same reason before the end of 2013.
Colonel Haiku (67e491) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:10 pmAre we really surprised:
http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/census-faked-2012-election-jobs-report/
narciso (3fec35) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:11 pm#47, I should have written “have submitted him“
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:14 pmsurprise, surprise;
http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/rude-awakening-for-federal-way-woman-who-got-shout-out-from-president-cant-afford-obamacare-policy-after-all/#.Uoq1uZH1JMg.twitter
narciso (3fec35) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:19 pmIn his world, if you hire the people with the right credentials, the job gets done if it at all possible to do it. All people who went through the proper hoops are equally skilled.
His conception of failure, if anything, is that that is what happens when people goof off on the job, or when it is beyond anybody’s capability.
Whether gooofing off on the job, or far more likely in this case, the job was too big for the team assembled and the timeframe for delivery too narrow. Regardless, Sammy, wouldn’t the one in charge of the whole kit and kaboodle want to be on top of the project to make sure it’s up and ready to roll out on the appointed date?? And if the team didn’t deliver, wouldn’t they be fired and replaced??
This is, after all, the president’s legacy jewel in the crown of his presidency.
Dana (d14468) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:21 pmnarciso- she gets to keep her tricoxigin.
mg (31009b) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:27 pm#31:
Sammy, the article I linked to says:
So if today’s NY Times says the opposite, they’re wrong. As usual.
And it was a tax, as you admit in #32
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/18/2013 @ 6:52 pmThe Obama administration better hope the website doesn’t get fixed, because that’s when the manure will really hit the fan.
http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/rude-awakening-for-federal-way-woman-who-got-shout-out-from-president-cant-afford-obamacare-policy-after-all/#.Uoq1uZH1JMg.twitter
Washington is supposed to be one of the better state exchanges. The problem is the state exchange, which also has to interface with the federal data hubs, which have to interface with the insurers. The whole thing is way to complicated, and you’re going to see lots of stories like this when the federal website does work.
Which will probably be after Obama’s term ends, if ever, it this turd isn’t tossed out. It can’t be polished.
No, she’ll be looking at a higher tax of 1% of her adjusted gross income above the filing threshold. Just as she makes too much money to qualify for the subsidy, and really she makes too much money to enroll her son in Medicaid, she makes to much money to merely pay the minimum penalty of $95. By 2016 when the tax rises to 2.5% of income she’ll no doubt be paying about a grand. Plus $360 a year for medicaid. Plus copays and deductibles. Plus she still won’t have her own insurance.
It’s an interesting article. The whole thing is complicated, not just navigating the website.
The lady doesn’t seem very bright. She’s still a big Obama/Obamacare fan. She thinks the state of Washington isn’t handling the roll out well. As if the states have any leeway to speak of. That was one reason 36 states didn’t open their own exchanges. Because they have to do things according to the dictates of the HHS. They can only act as lightning rods to take the blame for Obama, just as Obama’s “fix” isn’t designed to actually let anyone keep their health plans. It’s too late for that. But Obama can blame the insurance companies for all the damage he caused. And the Obamabots will be gullible enough to buy that.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/18/2013 @ 9:54 pmYou know, Obama may be clinically insane.
The Daily Mail reporter says he thinks he meant to say 100 thousand as opposed to 100 million. But apparently at other times he said one million people had completed applications for themselves and their families, representing a million and a half people.
I don’t think you can say he just misspoke or flubbed his lines. He lies deliberately for such short term gains when the truth is going to come out fairly quickly. Like that video story about Benghazi. He lies when people already don’t believe him. I honestly don’t think he cares what comes out of his mouth, he’s such a pathological liar. And he’s convinced he can sell the lie to anyone. Or at least he won’t get called on it.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:26 pm56.
In spades, he’s just a flim-flam man elevated by someone or some donor group a long time ago. Best guess SF’s Prince Bandar.
No wonder the latter is so royally pissed. A crack whore, Mack Daddy, foreign national from Occidental gets a transcript from Columbia and a Harvard Law appointment.
Then he’s processed at Trinity UCC by the Black Muslim elders. And three gay lovers dusted in a matter of days, Young, Bland and Spencer. His IL Senator post gifted, on and on and on.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:51 pm57. There is no chance Ogabe did not know the site was going to flop. They had already waived the Employer Mandate for the same reason the site was designed to hide the costs of individual policies.
He just assumes he will skate at every juncture.
And why shouldn’t he, he’s ShamWow, just the messenger. It’s Congress and HHS whose azzes are on the line, not his.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:55 pmObama’s statement that he has “one more campaign in me” for ObamaCare made me chuckle. If he really means what he says (and he rarely does), then it means he won’t be campaigning on the environment, immigration reform, gay marriage, and all those other promises he’s made to his patient supporters. (If I were an immigration reform activist, I would be especially upset after hearing 5 years of promises.) And that doesn’t include the unemployed who hope Obama means it every time he promises to make the economy and jobs his first priority.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/19/2013 @ 11:40 amThe lies just keep coming: Obama claims more than 100 million have signed up for ObamaCare.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/19/2013 @ 12:49 pmYes, the lies do keep coming. Apparently he was briefed about all the flaws in healthcare.gov. Clearly he chose to ignore the information to avoid giving his enemies (it’s his word, he made a Kinsley gaffe, so I’ll keep using it) ammunition.
And the good news just keeps on a comin.’
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/19/cms-tech-officer-roughly-30-40-of-the-obamacare-exchange-system-still-needs-to-be-built-including-the-payment-system/
There is no functioning payment system.
And the site doesn’t even incorporate basic security.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/19/healthcaregov-already-compromised-security-expert-says/
This apparently is the plan: HHS wants to get the front end fixed so people can input that personal information first before they even get around to figuring out how to secure it.
I’ve seen evidence on some blogs that based purely on TrustedSEC’s testimony and written report the bloggers were able to view people’s personal profiles. They have not posted the personal information.
This thing is a disaster from any angle you look at it.
The article at Fox concludes:
Until of course they get it fixed. Which will be never. Because they are just now getting around to incorporating security features that should have been built in from the start.
The best analogy I’ve heard is that if this crew was building a house they’d have laid the foundation, framed it, roofed it, finished the the interior and exterior walls, laid carpeting, and now they’ve decided to do the electrical wiring, the plumbing, and putting in a basement.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/19/2013 @ 1:59 pmForgot to mention, now they’re going to pour the slab for the garage, too.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:01 pmSomebody didn’t tell President Prom Queen that building houses is hard. There’s a lot of stuff you’ve got to think about.
It’s amazing watching a man in his 50s lecturing the rest of us about the epiphany he’s having that life isn’t as simple as he thought.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:05 pmI presume, the bidet system will function properly.
mg (31009b) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:08 pmBidet? He just found out that houses in the DC area really need HVAC systems. When he gets that then he learned he really needs to buy that property he built his house on.
Tony Rezko used to handle details like that for him.
Then there’s a little matter getting the permits and bringing it into code.
That last part isn’t really his fault. How many times has he told us during the healthcare.gov rollout that he doesn’t do code?
Steve57 (338553) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:32 pmMark Knoller reports that Obama said today he “underestimated the complexities” of building a website. Apparently he underestimated the complexities of everything government is able to do, like responding to a hurricane.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:34 pmI thought Halliburton would have helped out fixing the web-site, since they have hurricane building talents.
mg (31009b) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:39 pmI’m still waiting for him to stop the rise of the oceans. Or whatever.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:45 pmBut if he can’t stop the rise of the oceans, I’d settle for stopping the rise of the national debt.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:45 pmDRJ – Obama probably thought the website was going to be shovel ready on the date it was supposed to launch, before he read about its minor glitches in the newspapers.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:53 pmIndeed, daleyrocks.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/19/2013 @ 2:57 pmPresident Pinocchio has no reason to sully his hands with mundane matters such as details when he has important matters such as solving the problems of the world and golf to occupy his time.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/19/2013 @ 3:00 pmBathhouse Barry is so pressed for time, that he felt it necessary to amend the Gettysburg Address and delete ‘under God.’
But I bet he’ll have plenty of time to sit on the couch and watch ESPN, tonite.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 11/19/2013 @ 3:09 pmComment by Steve57 (338553) — 11/18/2013 @ 10:26 pm
I heard a clip from that conversation with OFA. Obama did not sound like himself, very weary and discouraged sounding along with preoccupied.
David Gelerter (Sp? from Yale) said a few days ago that it is not known how to secure a site like Healthcare.gov and what it wants to do.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/19/2013 @ 3:19 pmMaking the site was possible and no good excuse for not having it work like it should, but “making it secure does not have a known answer”.
Well you would ordinarily encrypt the site, but it has so many access points, that would prove impossible,
narciso (3fec35) — 11/19/2013 @ 3:27 pm74. David Gelernter, very seriously wounded and maimed by the Unabomber.
I don’t see why, in principle, healthcare.gov should be insecure.
Having so much inquiring of data bases going on, of course, is a problem, and an individual could be impersonated, but why should this be more insecure than, say, irs.gov?
Sammy Finkelman (03c829) — 11/19/2013 @ 4:32 pmAll they have to do is limit how much can go out from the various databases at one time.
Sammy Finkelman (03c829) — 11/19/2013 @ 4:35 pmYes, I don’t see how this works;
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101211556
narciso (3fec35) — 11/19/2013 @ 4:39 pmOh, that part, actually paying anyone, or enrolling, never has worked.
The whole back end doesn’t work. It can’t even process Medicaid enrollments.
Nothing goes out in usable form to anything outside healthcare.gov.
That’s the part written by CGI.
Sammy Finkelman (03c829) — 11/19/2013 @ 4:50 pmMorning Jolt’s Jim Geraghty gives the following scenario:
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/20/2013 @ 12:10 pm