Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov

Post by AutoCorrect » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 5:37 AM UTC

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Too bad the people who actually need it, are not signing up. Not to mention the people who HAD coverage are now getting cut off of their insurance and forced into the exchanges. A complete failure anyway you look at it. http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/01/18/coverag... "Instead of expanding coverage to those without it, Obamacare is replacing the pre-existing market for private insurance. Surveys from i…

My mother in law has worked for the past 15 years at jobs which employ her for 39.5 hours a week and don't give her health insurance. She suffers arthritis in her hands and knees. She signed up and received health insurance for the first time in 15 years last week. She is now receiving the medical care she needs. Had she not, she would have had to apply for disability benefits. Now, she gets to keep working. You don'…

Post by protomyth » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

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Medicare does a good job with hospital visits but has some serious holes in the drug buying. Those in their 50's should have had some cash built up from earlier savings, but they spent it all on premiums instead of building up a hedge. Lifelong illnesses are something that we should just acknowledge as bad for insurance and deal with otherwise. Insurance should be for events and not continuous medical conditions. We…

The elderly don't suffer from "being old". They are simply more likely to suffer from various events, and have more complications, then younger people. Being old is just a series of increasingly severe health events till one of them kills you. Even people with dementia don't typically last longer then 10 years (which is the sort of time frame you're looking at for people who recover from cancer to stop racking up bil…

Post by JustARandomGuy » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 12:39 AM UTC

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I've been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums. I'll always remember what Mikey told us in December, after the site was back up, could handle a non-trivial amount of traffic, and people who wanted health insurance could finally get it: "1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're d…

Update -- wow, a lot of you out there want to help with healthcare.gov, or the government more generally! That's awesome. I'm trying to reply to each person, but it may take a couple of days. :) If, for whatever reason, you haven't heard back from me by Monday, please email again! (The discussion on the 1 in 1000 fact has also been interesting, and I've personally learned a few new facts about the original study and…

Post by efa » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

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> people who wanted health insurance could finally get it Maybe I don't understand Obamacare well enough but I don't understand this statement (which I hear all the time on the commercials). Who couldn't get insurance before this website? I know the health care law did add guarantees around pre-existing conditions. So other than that, who couldn't call an insurance company directly (or use esurance or other portal) a…

Who couldn't get insurance before this website? Poor people. You can only get the Federal subsidies through the insurance exchanges which was supposed to primarily be online, but had small phone support staff too. The phone support staff was completely overwhelmed due to the website problems, which left thousands with no method to get insurance.