New HealthCare.gov improved, but with a glitch

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled a new version of HealthCare.gov on Wednesday, with some improvements as well as at least one early mistake and a new challenge.

Officials also said that HealthCare.gov won't display premiums for 2015 until the second week of November. Open enrollment season runs Nov. 15 through Feb. 15. Coverage can start as early as Jan. 1.

On the plus side, the health insurance website will feature a streamlined application for most of those signing up for the first time. Seventy-six screens in the online application have been reduced to 16, officials said. The site has been also optimized for mobile devices.

The goof is a mistranslation in large type on the home page of the Spanish-language version of the site. It's the very first word on the page. Trying to translate "get ready," someone came up with the wrong word in Spanish.

FULL story at link.



This image shows the website for updated HealthCare,gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. The Obama administration has unveiled an updated version of HealthCare.gov. It{2019}s got some improvements and some challenges. There{2019}s also at least one early mistake. (AP Photo)


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[Travis_0004]

1. Why wait until after the election to show premiums?

Seems like they are playing politics with peoples healthcare. If they know what the premiums will be theh should release it now so people can start planning for 2015.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Someone always has to look a gift horse in the mouth and kick its ass it seems.

[candelista]

9. What gift horse?

Obamacare? It's not a gift horse. You have to pay for it. It's a gift horse for the insurance companies, who get high premiums from mandatory customers. Is that what you meant?

[karynnj]

4. Agree, but maybe the deadline for setting them is the beginning of the enrollment period

I assume that the companies want them to go up at the same point. Not doing that allows game playing where a company that waits till the last minute could make themselves slightly below the others.

It would have been nice had the deadline been the end of this month.

[Fred Sanders]

2. AP "forgot" to mention the year ago glitches followed by 10 million newly insured...they always do.

[karynnj]

5. Not to mention - the "glitch" - a misspelled word in Spanish - is more embarrassing than a problem

You need to read a lot to find that this is not something that could takes months to correct.

This time, the website designers translated "get ready" as preparase. It should have been preparese — with an "e" instead of an "a." The same mistake appears three times on the Spanish home page, which is supposed to be a mirror-image of HealthCare.gov. Such a prominent error can unintentionally send a message that the site was not designed to professional standards.


Gee, has anyone else seen any misspelled words in AP stories? It sounds like the web site is far better than in past years - and I doubt even if one had to use the Spanish site that the misspelling would have been a major problem -- and I assume it can be corrected in about 2 minutes!

[Fred Sanders]

7. Whiners have to whine, and who whines more than the major media?

[winstars]

8. AP = "Prominent error" WTF??? a misspelled word? Jerks.

[sweetloukillbot]

11. If it was mistranslated as "Fuck Off" it would be a prominent error n/t

[jwirr]

6. Am I correct? People in states that did not expand Medicaid can sign up through this site?

[Drunken Irishman]

12. No. People in states without their own exchange can sign up on that site...

Some states expanded their Medicaid program but do not run their own exchange.

[justgamma]

10. 76 screens?

I don't remember it taking that long to sign up. Pretty sure it was only a few screens.

[flamingdem]

13. This is why colleges offer Spanish classes for native speakers

is needed. Speakers pick up terrible grammar and spelling since English was the language they use in school. They learned Spanish in the family and take it for granted.

Just a guess since I've seen this problemo.

[VA_Jill]

14. Hey, it could be worse!

It could be like TennCare, which is sending rejection letters to people who didn't even apply!