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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: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @04:43PM
Wow,
that's screwed up. I paid 180 euro for half a year. That's with the second most coverage out there. (single rooms in hospital and other extras, since even the basic insurance is required by law to cover most of the actual healing.) With a heart-defect from birth, (2 open heart surgeries and 2 minor heart surgeries so far, last one from 2011)
Together with the parts the insurance doesn't cover I think I paid about 944 euro in 2011 for all medical costs: Including, 6 general doctor visits, heart medication (4 separate prescriptions) for a year, 2 dental visits, the heart surgery, the different tests to find out what was wrong (including CT's,MRI, echo,...) and a control visit to the hospital half a year later (again with a lot of tests, no MRI this time though).
We do pay higher taxes than the US, but not using a big portion of the taxes for war means our health care isn't the only thing that's superior. (Think teachers that are well paid)
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 18 2014, @04:52PM
Not really surprising to me. Americans pay more for almost everything health related than any other developed nation, this guy gives a pretty good assessment of it [upworthy.com].
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe