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Oh no's. :shock: Not again.....say it isn't so. Are they playing Ripley's Believe it or not?
What happens when the back end of a critical federal website isn't built on time (and still isn't complete), so the White House is forced to rely on the honor system and logistical duct tape to piece together a complex and controversial enrollment process? Answer: Millions of data discrepancies, initial reports of which began surfacing in May, with additional details emerging in June. The New York Times reported several weeks ago that these errors and revisions could end up forcing "a family of four with an annual income of $80,000 [to] repay as much as $2,500” in miscalculated subsidies. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General indicates that those flaws impacted millions of applications filed in 2013 alone (representing half of the six-month enrollment period) -- and that only a minuscule fraction of the problems have been resolved. The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein explains:
Applications for insurance coverage through President Obama's health care law submitted in the final three months of 2013 contained millions of inconsistencies in which information such as income and immigration status could not be independently verified by the federal government, according to a June report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The inconsistencies may have resulted in individuals receiving an improper amount of subsidies, or subsidies that they shouldn't have been eligible for in the first place — something that could require them to repay the money in future tax bills...According to the HHS inspector general, applications submitted to the federal exchange in the opening months of Obamacare -- October 2013 through December 2013 -- contained over 2.9 million inconsistencies, of which more than 2.6 million, or 89 percent, remained unresolved as of Feb. 23, 2014.
The Associated Press runs that math:
The inspector general said the federal insurance exchange reported a total of 2.9 million so-called "inconsistencies" with consumer data from October through December 2013. Officials had the technical capability to resolve roughly 330,000 of those cases, but only about 10,000 cases were actually closed during the period covered by the report...President Barack Obama celebrated 8 million sign-ups as proof that technical problems which initially kept many consumers from enrolling had finally been overcome. It now turns out that some of those problems continued, only out of sight.....snip~
HHS Watchdog: Millions of Obamacare Application Data Flaws Still Unresolved - Guy Benson
What happens when the back end of a critical federal website isn't built on time (and still isn't complete), so the White House is forced to rely on the honor system and logistical duct tape to piece together a complex and controversial enrollment process? Answer: Millions of data discrepancies, initial reports of which began surfacing in May, with additional details emerging in June. The New York Times reported several weeks ago that these errors and revisions could end up forcing "a family of four with an annual income of $80,000 [to] repay as much as $2,500” in miscalculated subsidies. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General indicates that those flaws impacted millions of applications filed in 2013 alone (representing half of the six-month enrollment period) -- and that only a minuscule fraction of the problems have been resolved. The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein explains:
Applications for insurance coverage through President Obama's health care law submitted in the final three months of 2013 contained millions of inconsistencies in which information such as income and immigration status could not be independently verified by the federal government, according to a June report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The inconsistencies may have resulted in individuals receiving an improper amount of subsidies, or subsidies that they shouldn't have been eligible for in the first place — something that could require them to repay the money in future tax bills...According to the HHS inspector general, applications submitted to the federal exchange in the opening months of Obamacare -- October 2013 through December 2013 -- contained over 2.9 million inconsistencies, of which more than 2.6 million, or 89 percent, remained unresolved as of Feb. 23, 2014.
The Associated Press runs that math:
The inspector general said the federal insurance exchange reported a total of 2.9 million so-called "inconsistencies" with consumer data from October through December 2013. Officials had the technical capability to resolve roughly 330,000 of those cases, but only about 10,000 cases were actually closed during the period covered by the report...President Barack Obama celebrated 8 million sign-ups as proof that technical problems which initially kept many consumers from enrolling had finally been overcome. It now turns out that some of those problems continued, only out of sight.....snip~
HHS Watchdog: Millions of Obamacare Application Data Flaws Still Unresolved - Guy Benson
