By Michael Snyder
Do you know anyone that has been able to get past all of the glitches and sign up for health insurance using one of the Obamacare websites? Thousands of applications have been “started”, but the mainstream media has been desperately searching for someone that has actually been able to successfully get enrolled and so far they haven’t been able to find a single example. The Obama
administration had been promoting the story of one 21-year-old student from Georgia, but it turns out that his “success story”was a fraud and he was not actually successful in signing up for health insurance yet. So exactly what in the world is going on here? Certainly a few of the millions of visitors to these websites must have successfully signed up for health insurance, right? In the end, whether a handful of Americans have been able to sign up for health insurance or not is not the real issue. The real issue is that the launch of the most highly touted health law in U.S. history has been an epic fail.
The Obama administration has been so desperate to show that the Obamacare health insurance
exchanges are working that even Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, tweeted the news story about the 21-year-old student down in Georgia getting enrolled in Obamacare. Unfortunately for the Obama administration, the story was not actually true…
The 21-year-old student from Georgia was cited in multiple articles as being one of the few, the proud, the successful to signed up for insurance through a federal exchange.
On his Facebook
page, Chad Henderson bragged about being interviewed by “The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Huffington Post, Enroll America, and Politico,” along with several local TV affiliates.
His story supposedly was proof that for all their glitches and problems – and the ambivalence of young people – the new health
insurance exchanges were working after all.
Except it seems like it was all a lie.
So how many Americans have actually enrolled in Obamacare at this point?
The Obama administration claims that they do not have the numbers.
According to CNN, approximately 52,000 health insurance applications had been “started” as of Friday…
As of Friday, around 52,000 insurance applications have been started online on the sites of the 24 states that are operating their own exchanges, based on CNN’s own survey.
And according to the Wall Street Journal, large health insurance companies say that only “hundreds” of Americans have enrolled so far…
So far, Web-traffic problems are allowing only a small trickle of buyers, said John Gorman, chief executive of Gorman Health Group, an insurance-industry consulting firm with clients selling policies on the exchanges.
Large insurers have seen enrollment figures totaling in the hundreds each, said Sumit Nijhawan, chief executive of Infogix Inc., a data-integrity firm that works with such insurers as WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp.
Incredibly, only about 1 out of every 100 applications being submitted on the Obamacare health exchanges contain enough information to get an applicant successfully enrolled in a health insurance plan…
It’s a batting average that won’t land the federal marketplace for Obamacare into the Healthcare Hall of Fame.
As few as 1 in 100 applications on the federal exchange contains enough information to enroll the applicant in a plan, several insurance industry sources told CNBC on Friday. Some of the problems involve how the exchange’s software collects and verifies an applicant’s data.
“It is extraordinary that these systems weren’t ready,” said Sumit Nijhawan, CEO of Infogix, which handles data integrity issues for major insurers including WellPoint and Cigna, as well as multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates.
Talk about a colossal disaster.
So why is this happening?
Why can’t more people get enrolled?
Well, the number one reason people can’t get signed up are the monumental technical failures. For example, just check out what happened when a reporter from Georgia spent all day trying to sign up for Obamacare…
Do you know anyone that has been able to get past all of the glitches and sign up for health insurance using one of the Obamacare websites? Thousands of applications have been “started”, but the mainstream media has been desperately searching for someone that has actually been able to successfully get enrolled and so far they haven’t been able to find a single example. The Obama
administration had been promoting the story of one 21-year-old student from Georgia, but it turns out that his “success story”was a fraud and he was not actually successful in signing up for health insurance yet. So exactly what in the world is going on here? Certainly a few of the millions of visitors to these websites must have successfully signed up for health insurance, right? In the end, whether a handful of Americans have been able to sign up for health insurance or not is not the real issue. The real issue is that the launch of the most highly touted health law in U.S. history has been an epic fail.The Obama administration has been so desperate to show that the Obamacare health insurance
exchanges are working that even Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, tweeted the news story about the 21-year-old student down in Georgia getting enrolled in Obamacare. Unfortunately for the Obama administration, the story was not actually true…The 21-year-old student from Georgia was cited in multiple articles as being one of the few, the proud, the successful to signed up for insurance through a federal exchange.
On his Facebook
page, Chad Henderson bragged about being interviewed by “The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Huffington Post, Enroll America, and Politico,” along with several local TV affiliates.His story supposedly was proof that for all their glitches and problems – and the ambivalence of young people – the new health
insurance exchanges were working after all.Except it seems like it was all a lie.
So how many Americans have actually enrolled in Obamacare at this point?
The Obama administration claims that they do not have the numbers.
According to CNN, approximately 52,000 health insurance applications had been “started” as of Friday…
As of Friday, around 52,000 insurance applications have been started online on the sites of the 24 states that are operating their own exchanges, based on CNN’s own survey.
And according to the Wall Street Journal, large health insurance companies say that only “hundreds” of Americans have enrolled so far…
So far, Web-traffic problems are allowing only a small trickle of buyers, said John Gorman, chief executive of Gorman Health Group, an insurance-industry consulting firm with clients selling policies on the exchanges.
Large insurers have seen enrollment figures totaling in the hundreds each, said Sumit Nijhawan, chief executive of Infogix Inc., a data-integrity firm that works with such insurers as WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp.
Incredibly, only about 1 out of every 100 applications being submitted on the Obamacare health exchanges contain enough information to get an applicant successfully enrolled in a health insurance plan…
It’s a batting average that won’t land the federal marketplace for Obamacare into the Healthcare Hall of Fame.
As few as 1 in 100 applications on the federal exchange contains enough information to enroll the applicant in a plan, several insurance industry sources told CNBC on Friday. Some of the problems involve how the exchange’s software collects and verifies an applicant’s data.
“It is extraordinary that these systems weren’t ready,” said Sumit Nijhawan, CEO of Infogix, which handles data integrity issues for major insurers including WellPoint and Cigna, as well as multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates.
Talk about a colossal disaster.
So why is this happening?
Why can’t more people get enrolled?
Well, the number one reason people can’t get signed up are the monumental technical failures. For example, just check out what happened when a reporter from Georgia spent all day trying to sign up for Obamacare…
Jaye Watson of 11Alive News in Atlanta spent an entire workday trying to sign up online for Obamacare, and she, like millions of others around the country, encountered error messages, hold-ups and delays in the online marketplace.
While she waited, she called the 800 number for Obamacareand was asked to participate in a survey about her customer service experience. After being put on hold for several minutes without speaking to anyone, the automated survey kicked in and asked her how she would rate the time it took to reach a customer service representative.
“Well, I haven’t gotten through to one,” Watson said.
“Thank you again for calling the health insurance marketplace. Goodbye,” the machine said.
Watson laughed derisively.
While she waited, she called the 800 number for Obamacareand was asked to participate in a survey about her customer service experience. After being put on hold for several minutes without speaking to anyone, the automated survey kicked in and asked her how she would rate the time it took to reach a customer service representative.
“Well, I haven’t gotten through to one,” Watson said.
“Thank you again for calling the health insurance marketplace. Goodbye,” the machine said.
Watson laughed derisively.
they are the opposite of each other
it would be damn near impossible to create a FIRST TIME system for so many people who are ALL LOGIN IN at once and not have it crash, time or no time any system loaded like that is going to fail. How do you think Anon and ***** do DOS attacks? They just ALL visit a site at once. Site down.
