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There is no doubt that with the latest Obamacare open enrollment period the website is functioning much, much better than it did during last year’s open enrollment period.
However, buried in an article entitled Dark Days Ahead for Obamacare is this little blurb which I found to be quite interesting indeed.
ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges have opened for enrollment with few stumbles this year, in a victory for Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
But that doesn’t mean the open enrollment period doesn’t come with other difficulties. The administration has just until Feb. 15 to bring millions of new customers into the system and encourage existing enrollees to come back and shop again.
The three-month window — about half as long as last year — is proceeding while the back-end of HealthCare.gov remains partly unfinished. Health insurers have been exasperated by the delays, as health officials verify some account and application details by hand.
Another year has passed and still the back end–arguably the most important end–of the healthcare website is not fully up and running.
How many millions of dollars have the taxpayers spent on this website? And still applications and verifications still need to be done by hand in many instances? This is unfathomable and unforgivable to me!
Just think about how smoothly the system is going to run once the Democrats achieve their goal of using Obamacare to propel us into a single-payer system…