Riddle me this: if it is fundamentally impossible to have a functioning website, how come the state exchanges are working so much better: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/opinion/krugman-california-here-we-come.html
raghu. ---------------- California has evolve an entire bureaucracy that rivals the feds. So all they had to do was roughly conform to some new standard, adapt it, and open a `branch' like portal. Similar ease of transition would have been possible with the feds, if they had allowed Medicare expansion, since Medicare is highly centralized, computerized, and has been working for about a decade with electronic billing systems. I assume that the ACA tried to create a system from stratch, independent of the existing Medicare systems with its own separate rules, etc. For example, the vast majority of Medicare recipient's qualifications are already in the Social Security system and monitored by the IRS. Private insurance companies have to duplicate this kind system in addition to managing their constantly changing beneficiary base and claim rules. (The Medicare system has its own monster problems, but that is another issue.) CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
