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Health & Fitness

Another Day, Another Obamacare Propaganda Session

One wonders whether anybody but those who already kneel at the altar of Obama reacts to these platitudes other than with “Excuse me, but your ill-conceived law just…” (fill in the blank with any of the following):

A. Caused my insurer to cancel my policy.
B. Caused my insurer to massively raise my premium.
C. Caused my employer to drop my spouse’s coverage.
D. Caused my employer to cut my working hours.
E. Caused me to stop expanding my business.
F. (Any of the above plus) “But at least my 25-year-old adult child can stay on my policy while living in my basement because this law is so devastating to the job market.”

Meanwhile, back on the technical front, as the administration trumpets website performance that would make Amazon.com or eBay management turn red with shame, you’re going to start hearing a lot about a new number: 834.

That is the name given to a file that is supposed to be transmitted from the Obamacare exchange to insurance companies, giving them the key details of those who are attempting to enroll. As the Washington Post noted, “Insurers report that, in some cases, 834s are coming in wrong. That’s a much more serious problem than the online traffic bottlenecks that have dominated coverage of the health-care law’s rollout. If people can’t get into the Web site, then they simply have to come back later. But if they believe they’ve signed up for a plan but their 834 is a garbled mess — or, even worse, clear but wrong — it could mean chaos when they actually go to use their health insurance.”

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