Health insurance expert Bob Laszewski says that it’s not just that the pay system hasn’t been built on the back end of the Obamacare website, but the reconciliation portion (where the govt makes sure people are covered both on their end and insurance companies’ end) hasn’t been built either. So the rumor is that what the Obama administration is going to do is send the insurance companies hard copies of lists of people who should be covered to the insurance companies and expect them to reconcile thousands and thousands of records using their own hard copies.
Laszewski recommends that if you enrolled via healthcare.gov, you should double check with the insurance company that you are good to go because there’s a good chance they don’t even know you signed up for Obamacare at this point. It really is a disaster.
And all this week they’ve been touting that the website works for the vast majority of people. Amazing.