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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: 2, Informative) by microtodd on Tuesday March 18 2014, @02:53PM
$800 month about right, I pay 750. My COBRA was a little over $1,000. The deductible is a little high, $1000, but I just cover that in an HSA so 750 + (1000/12) = 833. One thing about Obamacare/ACA is it removed pre-existing conditions restrictions so switching wasn't a big deal.
That being said, I'm less than 12 months in and my family is pretty healthy. Maybe if something bad happened I'd be screwed.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by spxero on Tuesday March 18 2014, @03:26PM
I guess my view is just a little skewed then- I pay roughly $350/mo for my family of 4 with a $600 deductible for the family, $500 for an individual, $25 copay and $50 for emergencies... all with no pre-existing conditions. Two years ago my son was born before our plan was treated as a "cadillac plan" and we walked away with no hospital bill whatsoever. It sucks that having excellent health care is so closely tied to my employer, but I'd rather have what I have now than pay twice as much for half the coverage.
Does your $750 include vision and dental?
(Score: 1) by microtodd on Tuesday March 18 2014, @04:30PM
no vision and no dental.
Yeah I can see where if you paid your employer plan of ~$200 per payperiod there's a lot of sticker shock. Maybe I'm not expecting enough from the system? I guess I'm just trying to be pragmatic. Healthcare and insurance costs tend to destroy you when you try to start your own business.