SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expexting-different-results dept.
GungnirSniper writes:
"CGI Group, the Montreal-based IT consulting company behind the botched rollout of the Federal Healthcare.gov site, has been removed from the Massachusetts Health Connector project. This comes about two months after being removed from Healthcare.gov, and a few weeks after CGI admitted the MA site 'may not be fully functioning by the end of June, and that one option under consideration is to scrap the multi-million-dollar site and start over.'
Like Oregon's similar troubles, Massachusetts uses paper submissions as a workaround to meet Federal sign-up requirements. 'The paper backlog fell to 21,000 pending applications, from 54,000 two weeks ago.'
If you are in the US, have you used Healthcare.gov or a State equivalent? If you are not in the US, do you use similar online systems in your nation?"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bucc5062 on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:45PM
As a new process, I feel the experiences may vary from person to person signing up for our catastrophic care insurance. I call it that, because the majority of people will not be able to afford, or want to pay for the healthcare they had before the ACA.
My company felt it did not want to support its employees healthcare benefit so it dropped all coverage. The next day I am scrambling to get coverage for the compay policy would end in less them two weeks. Quickly I discovered how stupid out system is when I was told that while I could sign up before March 1st, I would not get actual coverage till April. WTF? When I pushed and explained that our dear company had dropped us after the cutoff date the responds was, tough shit. Rules are rules.
In a country where my president tells me he wants to make sure I am covered, I get to pay for my first month, but not get covered for 30 days, because I missed some fucking line on a calendar? If I buy car insurance I am covered that day, but health insurance...naaaa, gotta wait. In the end the company extorted the employees to pony up their bill for one month. God Bless America.
The healthcare.gov system worked pretty well for me. Guided me quickly to plans and helped me look at the crappy choices I had available. The worst part was after choosing, it took close to a week for the insurance companies to get the records. First a first world country, we attempt to imitate the worst of third world government and social caring.
The more things change, the more they look the same