Health care site improving, but still much to be done

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — The White House is expected to announce this weekend that Healthcare.gov is now operating smoothly, meeting its Saturday deadline by adding enough capacity for 50,000 people at a time and 800,000 people a day.

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On Tuesday, New York's enrollment numbers showed 76,177 have enrolled in a health plan, up from 48,162 on Nov. 12. And 257,414 people have completed their exchange applications, up from 197,011.

The same day, California said enrollment applications grew from 334,027 as of Nov. 16 to 385,556 as of Nov. 23.

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"I think anyone looking at this from a historical perspective understands that it takes a long time," Mendelson said. "That doesn't mean there won't be a political slant in 2014."


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/28/what-fixes-needed-at-health-website/3755543/

[SoapBox]

1. It's the PukeBagger's worst nightmare...

As each of these Americans secure their healthcare!

[Iliyah]

2. (If) majority of the red states cooperated and abide by

the law, AC would have run more smoothly but alas they did not. Also, Alec/Koch Brothers and tea tarts, et al., sabotaging the website to cause havoc with the help of corporate media spreading total bullshit panic and lies.

Could the Administration been more sufficient knowing about all the obstruction, of course. That said, Obamacare will succeed and by March 2014 the GOP will need another bullshit tactic to run on.

[bigdarryl]

3. I'm sorry but 50,000 people at a time isn't a lot

Of people for a website.If more than filthy thousand get on at once on Saturday then what.Is the site going to crash again

[mbperrin]

4. It took me 20 minutes to do all I needed on the site.

50,000 people x 3 in an hour = 150,000 people. The goal is to insure 32,000,000, not all of whom live alone , but let's just say they do. That means that in 213 hours, or less than 9 days, that could be done.

I do believe that 10 days to finish would be astonishingly good results by any measure.

Wouldn't you?

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. Took me 16 (I timed it)

Very nice and user friendly.

[caledesi]

11. OMG, yes! nt

[TomCADem]

7. That's 50,000 Per An Hour, Not Total

If you want 7,000,000 to sign up and it takes about 1 hour to sign up, then you need about 140 hours to sign up everyone. 140 hours spread out over the next few months is not that difficult. If you keep it between business hours, then you only need about a month. Of course, many folks will be signing up through state exchanges, so you don't even need to funnel the entire 7 million through the federal website.

[SoapBox]

10. +1

[llmart]

5. I've tried since October 1st......

and still there's some sort of glitch at the very end. I've tried about a dozen times. Each time I got a bit further, but two days ago I tried the identity verification again, it said my ID was uploaded successfully, but I never get beyond that.

[SoapBox]

9. Have you tried calling the phone number on the site, for help?

[llmart]

13. Yes.

About a month ago I explained to a customer service rep what my situation was and at the end of the conversation, after I gave her all of my specifics, I was told I would get a call from someone regarding my identification verification. She asked when was a good time to reach me and I said any day after 6 PM EST. I got home from work at 5:45 one night and there was a message on my answering machine - time at 4:45 PM telling me to call them back and "sorry you weren't at home". I called back, reminded the new CSR that I had asked them to call after 6 PM. Then I proceeded to ask her what the upshot was of my application and she had no information and said, "Why don't you print off an application and mail it in?"

Bottom line is, as much as I think they're trying, many people I know who are trying to apply are getting frustrated, and believe you me, the people I'm talking about are all Democrats and people who NEED less expensive health insurance. Most of my friends are like me - over 60 working part time jobs with no benefits and not yet eligible for Medicare. Most of them have already had serious illnesses like cancer, and some have other minor medical issues. Luckily I've extremely healthy, but at my age I can't do without health insurance.

[moreland01]

8. Success Story

My husband and I just signed up for the Colorado Exchange. We went from a $895/month Cobra plan to a $93/month plan with $0 deductible. Our total out of pocket max will be $4500/yr. We are thrilled! Thank You President Obama.

[snot]

12. Has anyone noticed any difference if on a Mac or PC?

[EC]

14. The web site isn't the only game in town so to speak.

I got mine through GoHealth.com which is through Walgreen's. People can also go to their insurance agents. So I don't know why when pundits talk about the web site they don't also direct people to other avenues to go. Or why aren't the Democrats telling people there are alternate ways of getting the ACA marketplace policies?