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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, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 18 2014, @03:50PM
I'm not sure that's what they were getting at. My understanding was their employer decided to drop the insurance the employer were previously providing for their employees.
The way it was described leads me to believe the employer is doing this on purpose though to seed some hate for the ACA. It seems like the employer's dropping their employees insurance at a time that's going to force their employees to rush around in extra confusion and cause unwarranted stress for both the employees and add to an already overburdened system.
Who do you think will get blamed for the additional headache this is going to cause the employees? Maybe my tinfoil's on too tight, but it seems to me people are going to blame the healthcare exchange, the ACA and Obama and this will be held up by the GOP as a shining example of how the ACA has failed people rather than people wondering why the heck did the employer wait till the last minute to drop their company insurance plan. Kind of like the lady that lost her "not worth the paper it was printed on" insurance because it didn't meet the basic requirements, then turned around and blamed the ACA that she had no insurance and refuses to look for another plan, which I stumbled on to with StumbleUpon here [addictinginfo.org]
Seems a little skulduggery to me.
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 3) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 18 2014, @06:42PM
I'm realizing I responded to the wrong post, this was suppose to be in response to this [soylentnews.org]
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe