Politico has taken the helm in turning around the narrative on Obamacare. For example, on Sunday they ran two homepage stories that healthcare.gov is doing fine as per the Administration but Politico failed to put on its homepage what CNN and Fox have reported early Sunday – that the website is still a mess. While the Morning Joe team reported and discussed these shortcomings Monday morning, Politico had non of it on its home page as of Monday late PM. But the liberal Washington Post is still doing some journalism:
The enrollment records for a significant portion of the Americans who have chosen health plans through the online federal insurance marketplace contain errors — generated by the computer system — that mean they might not get the coverage they’re expecting next month.
The errors cumulatively have affected roughly one-third of the people who have signed up for health plans since Oct. 1, according to two government and health-care industry officials. The White House disputed the figure but declined to provide its own.
The mistakes include failure to notify insurers about new customers, duplicate enrollments or cancellation notices for the same person, incorrect information about family members, and mistakes involving federal subsidies. The errors have been accumulating since HealthCare.gov opened two months ago, even as the Obama administration has been working to make it easier for consumers to sign up for coverage, the government and industry officials said.
Figuring out how to clean up the backlog of errors and prevent similar ones in the future is emerging as the new imperative if the federal insurance exchange is to work as intended. The problems were the subject of a meeting Monday between administration officials and a new “Payer Exchange Performance Team” made up of insurance industry leaders.