Calif. Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the oversight committee, recently announced that 24-hours prior to the launch of the federal health exchange website, it was only able to handle 1,100 users at a time.
Perhaps influenced by the steady stream of bad news, business owners who supply employee benefits to their workers have rarely visited the exchange websites, according to new polling data.
Nearly a third of all Americans who don’t have employee benefits may wind up losing their policies come next year, according to a recent assessment made by a noted health care economist.
Whether for the curiosity factor or because they don’t have employee benefits, a substantial number of people have visited California’s state-based exchange since it opened for enrollment on Oct. 1.
While U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius owned up to the glitches that have plagued Healthcare.gov since the day it rolled out, she didn’t do enough to reassure the American people that the exchanges are ultimately in the American people’s best interest.
The woman who sits at the helm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently told the U.S. Congress that she was sorry for the flawed rollout of the health care exchange that went live on Oct 1.
A leading public interest law firm has called for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ secretary to be held accountable for the problem-plagued health exchange rollout.
A recent investigation suggests that the White House may have known all along that many people in the private market, as opposed to those who get employee benefits, would not be able to maintain their existing health policies.
More than two weeks removed from the launch of the health exchange enrollment periods, the country’s “First State” successfully signed up its first customer, The Associated Press recently reported.
People who are successfully able to apply for health coverage through the exchange may be able to knock off two birds with one stone – getting themselves a health plan and at the same time registering to vote.
