November 20, 2013 07:16:42
Posted By Confutus
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius 'feels
like' healthcare.gov is safe from hackers and data thieves.
"Trust your feelings" is not recommended managerial technique for
computer systems technology.
Yesterday she attended a publicity event for Healthcare.gov. It
crashed in front of her. "It says 'I’m sorry but the system is
temporarily down.' ” said a reporter.
“Uh oh,” Sebelius responded.
A facilitator commented. "That's OK, it'll come back. That
happens every day!". Ba-dum-bump.
I must admit that there has been progress on making the front end
of the site, the user interface, working better. Now to start on
the security problems and the payment system. It was reported
that a whole two people managed to successfully sign up..that is,
select a plan...at the event.
In the meantime, Chris Tarango, a facilitator who is with a group
attemting to get people to sign up for Obamacare, was caught on
tape agreeing to give out personal information of enrollees for
political purposes. And the advice which the administration is
giving to bypass the healthcare.gov site and go directly to
ensurers conflicts with the law which states that a person must
use the exchanges in order to be eligible for the subsidies which
are supposed to reduce cost. And, there is a deadline of Dec 15
in order to enroll and get covered by January 1, to avoid tax
penalties. We haven't begun to hear from the people who thought
they had coverage, only to find out they don't, or that their
doctors aren't in the network. There is an endless line of
headaches for proponents of ACA in the foreseeable future.
The ACA is the Democrat's white elephant..too sacred to dispose
of, too expensive to keep.
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