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Capitol Hill Staffers Warned "Do Not Rely" On Obamacare Website
On a day when Sebelius faces more music, but small golf-claps are heard around Democrat offices at the sign-up rates for Obamacare, The Hill reports - rather dishearteningly, Capitol Hill staffers who signed up for ObamaCare through the Washington, D.C. healthcare exchange are being told to confirm their enrollments in person, and not to rely on data provided by the website... "Do not rely on your 'My Account' page or other correspondence from DCHL... do not assume you are covered."
The Hill obtained an email sent to staffers on Wednesday warning them, “it is essential that you confirm your coverage in DCHL through the Disbursing Office.”
“Do not rely on your ‘My Account’ page or other correspondence from DCHL,” the email reads.
“Please do not assume you are covered unless you have seen the confirmation letter from the Disbursing Office,” the email continues.
Capitol Hill workers had until Monday to sign up for healthcare in D.C., where members and their staffs are eligible for a generous employer healthcare subsidy from the government.
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After weeks of pressure from journalists, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that as much as 25 percent of enrollment transmissions sent from the federal portal to insurers were either garbled or contained bad data.
Based on HHS’s enrollment figures, upwards of 30,000 applications might need to be re-evaluated before the end of the year.
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Obamacare: the 'superfund site' of healthcare exchanges. It'll take 30 years, 1500 studies and trillions of dollars to clean up this toxic mess.
Because Obama.
Obozocare - All Bozo no care.
I call bullshit on the story because staffers are exempt, and another thing, I won't assume I am signed up because I ain't going to sign up bitch. Shutting down the businesses and growing shit is a alternative I can live with, besides, Harry Reid said taxes are voluntary.
What this story tells me is that the website has been rigged to tell people they are signed up, when they really aren't.
As always, the federal mafia can only create facades of legitimacy, as they lack the capacity to produce anything of value to anyone but themselves.
starting to feel like a visitor in my homeland.
Are the exits clearly marked?
wtf next?
Ya gotta admit, the Progs have a perfect batting average going on this...lol.
Roll out an unusable website after a billion bucks, three years & sketchy security...cancellations & cost increases start hitting everyones mailbox...then declare .gov fixed (despite the billing portal not fixed on the backside)...people log on & dump their personal info into it (despite hacker/security concerns)...find out their premiums have doubled & deductibles tripled (despite a promise to save $2,500 a year)...and then the Progs tell you to check with the insurance company YOU THINK YOU SIGNED UP WITH to see if they even know you're alive...ROTFL!!!
And why did they need to insert his .gov website/middleman into a perfectly normal process again?
Everyone should just send the insurance companies a "selfie" as ID, works for him ;-)
This is not true, Grassely inserted language before passage to make congress and staffers buy insurance thru the DC exchange. Obama signed an EO to keep Federal contributions to their plans when Congress and staffers found out the cost and what it would cost them in wages. There is some language that individual Congressmen/Senators may exempt themselves and staffers and keep the present Fed insurance plan but so far only Harry Reid(of course) has chosen to do so.
"Obama signed an EO to keep Federal contributions to their plans when Congress and staffers found out the cost and what it would cost them in wages."
Correct.
He gave them a raise, to offset the extra cost of his law.
Right about now everyone in America is wondering why he, as Dictator Obama, cannot just decree them a wage increase to offset the cost of his own law ;-)
BroCare - Insurance for the Irresponsible!
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You're being a bit optimistic, aren't you? Hanford Reservation will be clean due to natural radioactive decay over time before Obamacare is ever fixed.
At this point, the decomposition of the US via a Tainter-style collapse is a mathematical certainty.
oh my god Hanford is a god awful mess.
A simple solution: Dont' go there and you won't be affected.
Not as effective for Obamacare-but still the only strategy-ignore it.
As will the dandelions one day cure the curse of DC by destroying the last block of granite/marble with its will to live.
half my family lives in canada, half in the states, mostly westcoast, from malibu, washington state, and british columbia and alberta, and a brother in texas. as a result i've followed healthcare (cancer and heart primarily) on both sides of the border, but the texan stepped out of the norm as texans will and broke his neck, after surviving the full chris reeve, he went on to transit huston's reknown cancer and heart centers.
there's no question (until obcare) healthcare in the states (calif. washington. texas) was virtually like visiting a spa. canada, not so much, one family member died in a ward of 6. noisy, obviously over-crowded with the feeling the nurses ought to simply fling lime over the poor patients rather than prolong everyone's agony. things may be improving. certainly most have been renovated. however i am presently in washington state with a family member battling pancreatic cancer. and it's been an eyeopener. the first shocking tangle was that the emergency wing of the local hospital, urgent care, and the cancer clinic do not communicate. at all. completely different worlds---directly across the street from each other. i suggested putting all the info, scans and charts and test results on a stick that we could take with us, but no, the computer programs do not/cannot talk to each other. so we went from urgent care to the hospital, where the family member had 4days 24hrs of chemo, back home for a week to recover and then to the cancer clinic for the next round (same medical staff---exact same lab staff---exact same techies---everything all the same!) and first bump we hit, the cancer clinic has no record of her meds. none! we are informed (for the 1st time) that she has to schlep the meds and list every time she goes from one to the other because they do not communicate---moreover the 2 doctors treating her and writing up the prescriptions have no record. god knows what they do with their paperwork? (no doubt NSA and accounting are fully informed.) next: when in urgent care she'd been treated for dehydration, when transferred to the hospital, there was no record of this. again at the cancer clinic no one tests for hydration. next: she is diabetic, again the hospital had no record of this. and it's not on the record that surfaces at the cancer clinic. the patient, basically delirious with pain had to double check the entries, and make sure they had all the information necessary, basically fill in all the blanks.
this lack of dialogue and communication between the various medical centers is unnerving, but frankly i feel it's simply an indicator of the confusion and chaos looming. i cannot really fault the doctors or hospital staff, but the administration, the overall plan. if it was devised to cut costs, it has seriously failed as it will ultimately cost the system much more.
in canada, it's been my experience one of the principle screwups is that the accountants in their infinite short-sightedness have deemed it's more cost effective to have everything go through emerg. you can see the stupidity immediately. instead of educating and hiring more GP's and allowing them to know their patients and send them onward and upward to the various specialists and enjoy the various medical marvels, the accountants decided it's much cheaper to send everyone, from an inflamed toe nail, to accident victims to heart stroke and cancer, all to the same set of entry cubicles and to direct the sheeple from there. naturally, it's stupidly expensive and by the time the politicians realize that the shortage of GP's will be extreme. the only bright spot is that canada fully believes in the benefits of big brother and as a result the system can track your drug profile, medical history...food allergies, etc.
please excuse the length.
I'm very sorry to hear all this and hope everyone gets well. A big part of the problem in the US is HIPAA, which keeps medical records from automatically being shared between doctors without express written consent. This red tape slows things down considerably.
When I went through cancer treatments, I had everything done in a cancer hospital in NYC. All my doctors, treatments and urgent care under one roof allowed communications to not be an isssue. I was very fortunate and feel bad for those that didn't have this "luxury."
"A big part of the problem in the US is HIPAA, which keeps medical records from automatically being shared between doctors without express written consent."
Wut?
Did they amputate your hands, cut out your tongue, punture your eardrums and blind you, trying to cure you? Sounds like a pretty aggresive form of cancer there bud.
Electronic medical records are THE biggest scam going, driving up costs (not lowering them) and an invasion of privacy to boot. I don't consent to anyone & everyone viewing my medical history (such as it is) just because they think they might want to...only those that NEED to.
Everything has its good and bad points. I agree with you in that I wouldn't want everyone to have access to my medical records, but I have been in numerous occasions where I wouldn't be here today if not for my electronic medical records being instantly accessible. It can take too long for the HIPAA waiver to be executed.
It's really a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
I'll assume you're not an American, we take our privacy (even when doing nothing wrong or against our best interests) pretty damned seriously.
In your case, waive it if you have it to waive in whatever country you're in, here...waive it if you want to, don't advocate it as a solution for everyone else who you have no right to speak for.
HIPAA is there for a reason.
Sayin.
I am, unfortunately, an American.
I do not speak for anyone but myself. After reading emersonreturn's comments, HIPAA probably was a disadvantage in that case as well. The way HIPAA is structured, I cannot waive it entirely; each incident is handled separately. If I could have a blanket waiver, I would; however, what's right for me is not necessarily right for anyone else.
I strongly believe in freedom of choice, but we are too often the victim of regulations and have no say in the matter. Should flouride be added to drinking water? I say no, but they add it anyway. Etc.
It was put in to stop personal information from being transmitted to another party without your consent...it is your information...not theirs, by nature and is not public knowledge nor should it be. For a host of reasons, from seeking a job to a loan for a house to simply forming a relationship, intimate or otherwise.
(Putting on my central planning hat) this is nothing more than revising law to include it on a bracelet you wear, a waiving of HIPAA...and you bear the responsiblity of someone placing that bracelet on you (against your will while unconscious) or have someone speak for you.
It would give you the blanket "discovery" you desire and me my privacy to say no, I came in here for a broken leg, you don't need my past or present maladies to set it, I'm allergic to X...get on with it.
I wish your central planning hat could be placed on our illustrious politicians, since revising the law is a great idea. They could use some of your wisdom!
Perhaps I should rob a bank to get big bucks so I can lobby them...
naah. Fed.Gov can no longer accomplish even the simplest of clerical activities that have been fundamental to the existence of a government beurocracy for centuries.
Capitol Hill Staffers Warned "Do Not Rely" On Obamacare Website
Corrected, should have read, ON ANYTHING w/His Name.
Bill Ayers admits he wrote "Dreams From My Father"!!!! Any attorneys in the house?http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/10162
Weren't people saying that Bill is his father? I guess he got the dreams straight from the horse's mouth?
pods
Um, word on the street says daddy was a negro. But these commies are capable of any attrocity in their attempt to defile our precious bodily fluids.
Nah, his daddy was the guy who took nekkid pictures of his momma.
ObaPelosiCare fukked them too...?? Hahahahaha !
Fuck 'em. They know the kind of garbage legislation that their employers excrete.
If they couldn't see this coming, then they're too stupid to live. Off to the death panel with them.
Comment of the Day.
There will be a lot of folks who thought they were in the club...
"They know the kind of garbage legislation that their employers excrete."
The irony is the staffers wrote most of the law. Serves 'em right.
Actually lobbyists wrote this particular law - most of it came straight of the desk of insurance industry lobbyists.
"Please do not assume that you are covered unless you have seen the confirmation letter from the Disbursing Office"
They probably mean "the Disturbing Office".
Not defending the O debacle, but as an employee of one of the largest private health insurers in the US, you should never assume you're covered for anything, even if you have the paperwork.
Even if you do have the paperwork, and it's clear as hell, they still may deny the claim... there are penalties for doing that, but unless it's a decent amount, you're probably not going to even bother with it.
My gripes come on the practitioner side, where you can call and ask if a procedure is covered, get confirmation, submit a claim, and then have it denied... unbelievable.
Millennial terminology is in order here:
EPIC FAIL
And the opposite is WIN aka #winning
http://www.epicfail.com/2013/12/11/rat-tricks-win/
We can train rats this well and we can't get shit right in DC.
Oh wait. we.... can.... train.... rats....
awww fuck
If you signed up for Obamacare insurance, you really have Obamacare insurance.
Fuck Blobamascare! I read today that seven out of ten physicians in CA are NOT participating in this sham. Thank god, someone out there still has a brain. And, as booboo points out, CONgressional staffers and their ilk are EXEMPT from this gubmint scam. Yes, Virginia, the sky is falling!
If you like being ass raped you can keep being ass raped......