Thursday, December 19, 2013

Heathcare Bolting

From CNBC:
"Abandon ship! Four state Obamacare chiefs bolt post-launch"

You can add Obamacare exchange boss to this year's list of "most dangerous jobs."  Four out of the 15 chiefs of Obamacare insurance marketplaces run by individual states and the District of Columbia have either quit or gone on leave since the botched Oct. 1 launches of their health exchanges.  And given badly lagging sign-up rates in Affordable Care Act insurance policies in several other states, some other bosses likely will follow those four out the exit door. "I would expect to see some more turnover, because they aren't hitting their enrollment targets," said Mark Argosh, managing principal Sterling Healthworks, a heath-care reform website featuring a calculator to determine premiums and cost, and a subsidiary of leading insurance brokerage SterlingRisk. The latest casualty came Tuesday, when Minnesota's health exchange boss, April Todd-Malmlov, resigned during an emergency session of the board that oversees that exchange, called MNsure. Todd-Malmlov's departure followed the Dec. 6 resignation of the chief of Maryland's Health Benefit Exchange, Rebecca Pearce, after it was revealed that she had taken a long vacation in the Cayman Islands in late November as her Obamacare marketplace badly floundered, leaving it with just 5,179 people enrolled in private insurance plans by the date of her exit.  Maryland's exchange has performed so poorly that U.S. Rep. John Delaney, a Democrat who represents that state's Montgomery County, recently asked whether Maryland should abandon running its own Obamacare marketplace, and instead have residents sign up for such policies via the federally run HealthCare.gov.   Hawaii's Obamacare exchange chief Coral Andrews' resignation, which was announced in late November, became effective the same day as Pearce's departure from the Maryland exchange. As of Nov. 30, the Aloha State's troubled health exchange had enrolled just 444 people in private Obamacare plans, according to officials.  And on Dec. 1, Rocky King, the head of Oregon's Obamacare exchange, went on extended medical leave, with no guarantee that he would return, amid scathing criticisms of that marketplace. As of today, Oregon's exchange website has so many technical problems that it still hasn't been launched yet, and it's not known when it will be, leaving the state relying on paper applications and direct enrollment by insurers to fill the gap.
 
^ It seems Obamacare is full of many liars and cheats at all levels. Not only did Obama lie about people being able to keep their insurance - which most can't. - but his cronies seem to be living it up while the ordinary are made to suffer. There should be an independent, thorough investigation on everyone involved with Obamacare because it clearly isn't working and it looks like people are abusing the system they created. ^


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