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Что-то невероятное…
Oct. 29th, 2013 01:24 amОбама затеял реформу здравоохранения. Для этой цели был создан вебсайт healthcare.gov.
Вот только одна проблема — сайт не работает.
Shopping for health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges?
Good luck. Not only will you have to navigate the technical problems that have plagued the site — but in most states, those running the exchanges are not posting ratings that could give shoppers a clear sense of how good the plans are.
The consumer ratings are called for in the Affordable Care Act. They would be provided by a respected independent company, allowing consumers to judge health plans by treatment outcome, service and consumer satisfaction.
Federal and state officials, though, largely decided it would reflect poorly on the insurance exchanges if some companies were rated and others were not — and have not yet published them.
“We think that is ludicrous,” said Garry Maisel, CEO of Western Health Advantage, an ObamaCare-approved provider. “Consumers deserve to know what is unrated versus what has been around a long time and has a good quality rating.”
The controversy arose last week in California, when Western Advantage and two other highly rated providers — Kaiser Permanente and Sharp Health Care — complained the state failed to post their ratings because of opposition from lower-rated plans.
“When a quality rating is available, consumers should have access to it,” said Maisel. “If I was a consumer, I would want to know [if] the plan I pick, the network of providers I access care through, was just put together or has been around a long time.”
Kaiser Permanente in California is ranked #7 nationally. Blue Shield in California is ranked #414. But on the Covered California website, consumers have no way of knowing that, because the state refused to post the ratings.
Last week, officials reversed that decision and said the state will begin adding quality scores in 2015.
“To make a smart choice, we need more information, that is why this rating system is so important,” said health care analyst Betsy McCaughey. “Otherwise choosing a plan on these exchanges is just a shot in the dark.”
The National Council on Quality Assurance rates almost every health plan available nationwide on treatment, prevention and customer service. Each category is scored on a scale of 1 to 5, and then plans are ranked from best to worst.
(Reuters) – A data center critical for allowing uninsured Americans to buy health coverage under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law went down on Sunday, halting online enrollment for all 50 states in the latest problem to hit the program’s troubled rollout.
The data center operated by Verizon’s Terremark experienced a connectivity issue that caused it to shut down, affecting the federal government’s already problem-plagued online marketplace Healthcare.gov and similar sites operated by 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Obama administration and company officials could not say how long it would take to fix the connectivity problem.
Separate technical problems that have stalled enrollment on Healthcare.gov since its launch on October 1 are at the heart of a new Republican effort to discredit the healthcare law, also known as Obamacare, largely through congressional investigations to determine what went wrong in building the costly and complicated implementation system.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is due to testify later this week before a House of Representatives committee, while government contractors work around the clock to improve the Healthcare.gov website.
The outage that started in the early hours of Sunday caused the data center to lose network connectivity with the federal government’s data services hub, an electronic traffic roundabout that links the online health insurance marketplaces with numerous federal agencies and can verify people’s identity, citizenship, and other facts.
Обама уже не раз выступал на эту тему перед американским народом.
Последнее обещание: — Обама пообещал, что сайт начнет работать к концу ноября. “Лучшие американские IT-умы” работают над этой проблемой.
Сейчас Конгресс США пообещали создать свой вебсайт. В помощь ObamaCare
Запись оттранслирована из моего журнала |
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