The troubled Healthcare.gov website seems to have found its sea legs at last. After a botched rollout, the White House set itself a new deadline of Nov. 30 and hunkered down to repair the many glitches afflicting the site, through which Americans in the 36 states it serves must get their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. By and large, it appears to have succeeded, with some 29,000 people reportedly signing up for health care insurance through the site on Sunday and Monday alone.
The site still isn't capable of processing payments. Tens of thousands of people, if not more, who think they have obtained health coverage are in for a rude awakening when they discover that applying for insurance does not equate with obtaining insurance. To cure that, the insurance companies likely will be advanced billions of taxpayer dollars based on their estimates as to what the coverage will cost. That equates to another government bailout that working Americans and future generations will flip the bill for.
Furthermore, computer and internet security experts have deemed healthcare.gov completely inadequate in terms of users' sensitive data being protected. This is a success? Gimme a break.
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The Healing Begins for Healthcare.gov
Posted by: Erika Morphy December 4, 2013 04:12 PMThe troubled Healthcare.gov website seems to have found its sea legs at last. After a botched rollout, the White House set itself a new deadline of Nov. 30 and hunkered down to repair the many glitches afflicting the site, through which Americans in the 36 states it serves must get their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. By and large, it appears to have succeeded, with some 29,000 people reportedly signing up for health care insurance through the site on Sunday and Monday alone.
Furthermore, computer and internet security experts have deemed healthcare.gov completely inadequate in terms of users' sensitive data being protected. This is a success? Gimme a break.