The lawsuit will most likely fail. The law states that the federal government will set up the state exchange if the state fails to do so. To learn more read here:http://balkin.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-legally-flawed-rearguard-challenge.html
Even if you turned out to be right that means that conservatives will be deliberately working to not only deny the poor medicaid funding, but will be deliberately acting to deny them federal health subsidies, screwing them over financially in order to pursue their ideological agenda.
Let me know how that works out for you.
Buy this or else is the only way the market could potentially deliver.
As noticed; many companies decided to stay out of the market (and/or individual states); reducing the "competition that would lower costs" potential.
I would expect that some of the insurance companies that chose to participate will back out of some markets after a couple of years. To costly!
President Barack Obama did not know about HealthCare.gov's technical woes until after the flawed health insurance website was launched three weeks ago, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday.
...and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in, you know, a five-year period of time we probably would have taken five years, but we didn’t have five years,” Sebelius said.
Wu said it's "incredibly misleading for people that are trying to get a sense of what they're paying."
Prices for everyone in the 49-or-under group are based on what a 27-year-old would pay. In the 50-or-older group, prices are based on what a 50-year-old would pay.
CBS News ran the numbers for a 48-year-old in Charlotte, N.C., ineligible for subsidies. According to HealthCare.gov, she would pay $231 a month, but the actual plan on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's website costs $360, more than 50 percent higher. The difference: Blue Cross and Blue Shield requests your birthday before providing more accurate estimates.
The numbers for older Americans are even more striking. A 62-year-old in Charlotte looking for the same basic plan would get a price estimate on the government website of $394. The actual price is $634.
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman said the government added the "shop and browse" feature to provide "estimates of premiums without tax credits."
Prices for everyone in the 49-or-under group are based on what a 27-year-old would pay.
ABC News said the government spent $500 million for the website healthcare =
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/500-million-obamacare-website-bust-20631716
Half of a billion USD and climbing? Really?
Does this mean in the past three years (especially this past year where coding should have been completed and thorough testing should have been performed), no one gave him a status? Technical glitches were being identified last June and no one told him???
Is it as beyond pathetic as the epic fail of not reading the article?Who did they hire to do their testing? Bozo the clown?
How does something like this not get caught before they roll it out to the public???
All code changes, especially one that determine correct pricing, should be tested and approved before it gets to the public...One would think that after all of the black eyes that have been experienced since Oct 1 that they would MAKE sure that all of the I's were dotted and T's were crossed before rolling it out....
The epic fail of not being able to do simple testing is beyond pathetic...
LOL Well said. One can only plead ignorance so many times before being thought an idiot. On the other hand, there is a long precedent of politicians never learning about embarrassing things they've done until it can be proven they knew; this is likely no different.I could see people wanting to cover up the issues, esp when it might be there job on the lines.
That said - our president sure does learn about a lot of stuff at the last moment. I mean if he learned about the IRS targeting, seizing AP reporter records, Fast&Furious, and Unannounced AF1 flyovers from watching the news so maybe he just really is completely clueless about whats going on around him
Um, the purpose of testing is to uncover errors in design as well as errors in execution. If my boom is going to fail under rated load I want to know before it's actually being used regardless of whether it's a bad design or a bad weld. If my web site is going to deliver highly inaccurate results I want to know before roll-out regardless of whether it's a bad design or a bad implementation.Is it as beyond pathetic as the epic fail of not reading the article?
If you read the article, you'll find this was a feature, not a bug. It is a poorly considered feature IMO, but a feature nonetheless. Presumably to address the complaints that shoppers had to register before they could examine options, the ACA team added a feature to allow anonymous browsing. This new feature puts shoppers into one of two age groups: 49 and under, and 50 and over. The prices calculated then use age 27 for the younger group and 50 for the older group.
Unfortunately, this is NOT how the insurance companies themselves price policies, giving highly inaccurate results in many cases. Somebody didn't think it through very well before spec'ing this new feature. The only saving grace is this feature is for more casual browsing. In order to actually apply, people still have to register and provide actual birth dates.
In short, for all your wailing about coding and testing, this is a design failure, not a testing failure.
In short, for all your wailing about coding and testing, this is a design failure, not a testing failure.
I could see people wanting to cover up the issues, esp when it might be there job on the lines.
That said - our president sure does learn about a lot of stuff at the last moment. I mean if he learned about the IRS targeting, seizing AP reporter records, Fast&Furious, and Unannounced AF1 flyovers from watching the news so maybe he just really is completely clueless about whats going on around him
The NBC lead story tonight was "breaking news" that the Obama administration will delay the individual mandate for up yo six weeks due to the system problems. No links yet.
Customers must sign up by Dec. 15 in order to get care that begins Jan. 1. Late Wednesday, White House officials announced that they intend to slide the deadline for individuals to buy health insurance without a tax penalty by as much as six weeks. If the change is finalized, people will need to have started the enrollment process by March 31, the deadline to sign up.
Link to the GOP proposing only a six week delay?A lot like the last CR the GOP submitted before the shutdown that Reid refused to look at. Getting my popcorn.....
Link to the GOP proposing only a six week delay?
Link to the GOP proposing only a six week delay?
Spin fail. There's a tremendous difference between six weeks and a full year.A lot, not exactly. Maybe I should have went with Similar? Kinda like it? Comperable?
A lot, not exactly. Maybe I should have went with Similar? Kinda like it? Comperable?
Spin fail. There's a tremendous difference between six weeks and a full year.