Reports Of Troubles Surrounding HealthCare.gov Piling Up.
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Reports continue to pile up of growing troubles surrounding healthcare.gov, the Federally-run insurance marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act which opened for enrollment October 1. Whether technical, financial, or political, the issues will likely be brought to the forefront as the budget negotiations fade from view.
Thursday night, NBC Nightly News reported, “Had it not been for the government shutdown becoming our lead story for these past 16 days and nights, it may well have been Obamacare and the incredibly rocky rollout for the Federal government’s healthcare website.” The report continued, “Some Republicans are saying the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, should be fired as a company’s CEO could be fired after any botched rollout like this.” Tom Costello then looked into “what went wrong,” focusing on the contractor behind the website, CGI Federal. Originally, CGI Federal “was awarded a $55.7 million contract for computer systems design services to build the website with a ceiling price tag at $94 million” and the contract shows that by May of this year, CGI “had spent $196 million and the ceiling price tag had soared to $292 million.”
On its front page, the Wall Street Journal
Moreover, USA Today
In an article titled “Health-Law Scrutiny Likely To Intensify,” the Wall Street Journal
And now, as FOX News
In response, Politico
The Hill
On its website, MSNBC
Reuters
State Exchanges Faring Better Than HealthCare.gov. The CBS Evening News examined the state-run exchanges which opened in 16 states and the District of Columbia on October 1. CBS’ Elaine Quijano profiled New York’s marketplace, the New York State of Health, which “is hoping to enroll 1.1 million people…over the next three years.” New York Department of Health’s Lisa Sprana told Quijano that the exchange “might be exceeding” this goal. With about “115,000 people so far who have already come through the marketplace system and have been found eligible for coverage,” this makes New York “among the state leaders for completed applications.” Quijano also pointed out that New York “did not use the software designers behind the Federal government’s troubled exchange.”
Providing state-specific accounts are the Detroit Free Press