Courtesy of Mish.
Drumroll please….. It’s T minus 11 days and counting before the fully functional healthcare website president Obama promised by the end of November will be up and running.
Here is the exact Obama quote from a speech in Dallas as noted by the Washington Post
“The web site is already better than it was at the beginning of October, and by the end of this month, we anticipate that it is going to be working the way it is supposed to, all right?“
Sinking Titanic
My favorite comment to the article comes from Jeff1962 who replied “At least the Titanic made it out of port before it sank…“
30-40% of Healthcare.Gov Not Built According to Official
You can count the end-of-November pledge as another promise that cannot and will not be met.
It seems that 30-40% of Healthcare.Gov is not built yet according to Henry Chao, CIO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that operates HealthCare.gov.
CNBC reports Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature
Another day, another big, bad black eye for HealthCare.gov.
A crucial system for making payments to insurers from people who enroll in that federal Obamacare marketplace has yet to be built, a senior government IT official admitted Tuesday.
“We still need to build the payments system to make the payments [to insurance companies] in January,” testified Chao, deputy chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that operates HealthCare.gov….
