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from the same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expexting-different-results dept.
GungnirSniper writes:
"CGI Group, the Montreal-based IT consulting company behind the botched rollout of the Federal Healthcare.gov site, has been removed from the Massachusetts Health Connector project. This comes about two months after being removed from Healthcare.gov, and a few weeks after CGI admitted the MA site 'may not be fully functioning by the end of June, and that one option under consideration is to scrap the multi-million-dollar site and start over.'
Like Oregon's similar troubles, Massachusetts uses paper submissions as a workaround to meet Federal sign-up requirements. 'The paper backlog fell to 21,000 pending applications, from 54,000 two weeks ago.'
If you are in the US, have you used Healthcare.gov or a State equivalent? If you are not in the US, do you use similar online systems in your nation?"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by velex on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:08AM
This is similar to my experience as well. I don't think sustainability is what congress was looking for. It's clear this is little more than a golden handout to insurance companies, and it's unclear that this handout is even coming from tax money.
Instead of this ACA mess, simply divorcing health insurance from employment would have done a lot more good. Why can't I just get the rates that are offered to my employer? Why can't I pay for a plan of my own choosing with before-tax money? Why are companies being forced to limit employees they don't want to offer insurance to 29.5 hours? When that finally hits, working two jobs will become the norm! Insanity!
Personally, the right wing lost me when they started talking about free Obamacare sex changes. Do they even know what "Obamacare" is--the whole thing that "Obamacare" means paying a private company? Do they even understand that "Obamacare" doesn't provide anybody anything for free except perhaps superseding some things like county health plans and perhaps moving around where the money comes from when somebody without insurance goes to the ER?
The left wing are no heroes for moving forward with the ACA after it became apparent that the right wouldn't let anything that wasn't a disaster through, but I'm not sure the right wing even knows what they're talking about.
These failures to roll out online exchanges are something else, but it all comes down to the same thing. It's government pork for big corporations at the expense of the economy and the middle class. No problems have been solved by the ACA.