I knew that Healthcare.gov was sending a lot of bad data to insurers, but I didn’t know it was this bad:
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.
(Via Moe Lane.) An error rate of one-third! Wow.
ASIDE: Remember when the White House disputed the allegation that virtually no one was successfully using Healthcare.gov, and the real number of successful users turned out to be six? Good times.
Also, I knew that a lot of the people signing up for plans weren’t actually paying, but I didn’t know it was this bad:
One insurer, Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, has received payments from only about 20% of applicants, nearly all using the firm’s online portal. . . If payment isn’t made by New Year’s Eve, PHP has been told by federal officials that it must void the application.
(Previous post.) (Via Hot Air.)
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