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New woes for HealthCare.gov: Wrong tax info sent out

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Here's another example of the mistake it was to put the federal government in charge of something so massive.


New woes for HealthCare.gov: Wrong tax info sent out

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new setback for the health care law and the people it's supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that's fouling up the filings of nearly a million Americans.

After a successful sign-up season, the latest goof could signal new problems with the complex links between President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and the nation's income tax system.

Officials said the government sent the wrong tax information to about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers, and they're asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns. The issue involves a new government form called a 1095-A, which is like a W-2 form for health care for people who got subsidized private coverage under Obama's law.
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New woes for HealthCare.gov: Wrong tax info sent out
 
Prime example of why the government should never get involved in stuff like this.
 
leoborn said:
Is it politically incorrect to question if they're truly inept and couldn't run a lemonade stand, or is it fiscally proper to question the amount of money misspent not once, but twice? Decisions, decisions...
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Well, you could do both, as both are quite apropos to the situation in question.
 
Was it [and the other screw ups] actually a mistake or just another effort to cause it to fail?

After all didn't the Left 'really' want single payer?
 
The IRS can't do their basic job...collecting taxes...without screwing up and now the Democrats have loaded them up with a half-baked monstrosity in Obamacare to deal with. Is it any surprise to anyone that this situation has happened?

The result is that almost a million people won't get their refund...or won't find out how much they still owe...as soon as they thought they would and a whole bunch of people who thought they already did everything right and filed are going to find out that they might have to pay more...or maybe get more back.


The Republicans need to jump on this debacle. They need to redouble their efforts to flush Obamacare as well as reform our tax code. The best justification? When you make things more and more complicated, screwups happen more and more. When things are simple, they work better and people have the ability to plan ahead and be prepared.
 
Fletch said:
Greenbeard should be along any moment to tell us all how this is just a minor glitch in an otherwise wonderful and glorious new law that is working toward the betterment of all mankind.
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In a week in which I've been notified 1) by a private lender that they sent me a 1098-E with incorrect information (I already filed my taxes and received my refund, so that's very convenient timing!), and 2) by Anthem that they were kind enough to buy me two years of identity theft protection because they potentially lost my "name, date of birth, Social Security number, health care ID number, home address, email address, employment information, including income data" to hackers--I'm supposed to take what from this? That government is just so incompetent?

Guess what, friend. Everyone's incompetent. Public, private, it doesn't really make a difference. Grow up.
 
Greenbeard said:
In a week in which I've been notified 1) by a private lender that they sent me a 1098-E with incorrect information (I already filed my taxes and received my refund, so that's very convenient timing!), and 2) by Anthem that they were kind enough to buy me two years of identity theft protection because they potentially lost my "name, date of birth, Social Security number, health care ID number, home address, email address, employment information, including income data" to hackers--I'm supposed to take what from this? That government is just so incompetent?

Guess what, friend. Everyone's incompetent. Public, private, it doesn't really make a difference. Grow up.
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In a perfect world, you are able to minimize the incompetency that affects you based on choices you make. In a liberal/progressive/Democratic world, you don't have the ability to make any choices.
 
Mycroft said:
In a perfect world, you are able to minimize the incompetency that affects you based on choices you make. In a liberal/progressive/Democratic world, you don't have the ability to make any choices.
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I make lots of choices. If you feel like you don't have the ability to make any choices, maybe it's time to re-examine your life.
 
Greenbeard said:
I make lots of choices. If you feel like you don't have the ability to make any choices, maybe it's time to re-examine your life.
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One choice I cannot make is whether I'm affected by IRS incompetency concerning Obamacare...neither can you.
 
Mycroft said:
One choice I cannot make is whether I'm affected by IRS incompetency concerning Obamacare...neither can you.
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You bought a plan through healthcare.gov? That's somewhat surprising.
 
Greenbeard said:
You bought a plan through healthcare.gov? That's somewhat surprising.
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Whether I did or not doesn't make me immune from IRS incompetency. But I'm not surprised you didn't have a response to my point...other than to talk about me.
 
Mycroft said:
Whether I did or not doesn't make me immune from IRS incompetency. But I'm not surprised you didn't have a response to my point...other than to talk about me.
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I don't understand. You just implied that you were affected by the subject of this thread. Which is about tax information that went to some of the healthcare.gov users.

What the hell are you talking about?
 
Greenbeard said:
I don't understand. You just implied that you were affected by the subject of this thread. Which is about tax information that went to some of the healthcare.gov users.

What the hell are you talking about?
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I'm talking about the differences between a perfect world and a liberal/progressive/Democratic world...as you would know if you actually understood what I wrote to you.
 
Mycroft said:
I'm talking about the differences between a perfect world and a liberal/progressive/Democratic world...as you would know if you actually understood what I wrote to you.
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Are we in a "liberal/progressive/Democratic world" now? Were you affected by this IRS error, is that what you're saying? Or is that world hypothetical too? Or were you not affected but you feel like somehow you could've been?

I really have no idea what your point is.
 
Greenbeard said:
In a week in which I've been notified 1) by a private lender that they sent me a 1098-E with incorrect information (I already filed my taxes and received my refund, so that's very convenient timing!), and 2) by Anthem that they were kind enough to buy me two years of identity theft protection because they potentially lost my "name, date of birth, Social Security number, health care ID number, home address, email address, employment information, including income data" to hackers--I'm supposed to take what from this? That government is just so incompetent?

Guess what, friend. Everyone's incompetent. Public, private, it doesn't really make a difference. Grow up.
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LOL. Do you get alerts when someone makes a negative comment on Obamacare?
 
Greenbeard said:
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Are we in a "liberal/progressive/Democratic world" now? Were you affected by this IRS error, is that what you're saying? Or is that world hypothetical too? Or were you not affected but you feel like somehow you could've been?

I really have no idea what your point is.
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As far as Obamacare is concerned, yes...we are in that liberal/progressive/Democratic world I spoke of.

How I am being affected is not the issue. How you are being affected is, since it was your situation that I was responding to. How those 800,000 other people are being affected is also the issue...which is your lack of choices.

Come on...are you REALLY having such a hard time understanding plain English?
 
Mycroft said:
As far as Obamacare is concerned, yes...we are in that liberal/progressive/Democratic world I spoke of.

How I am being affected is not the issue. How you are being affected is, since it was your situation that I was responding to. How those 800,000 other people are being affected is also the issue...which is your lack of choices.

Come on...are you REALLY having such a hard time understanding plain English?
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Only when you're needlessly cryptic ("One choice I cannot make is whether I'm affected by IRS incompetency concerning Obamacare") to imply you were impacted by this issue. You weren't. Neither was I. So apparently neither of us is in that "liberal/progressive/Democratic world."

I'm in the world where my headaches are caused by the clerical errors and administrative mistakes of private lenders and the insurer behind the small group plan I had five years ago (and Comcast, if we want to just keep adding to the list).
 
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