Took me 2 weeks to get in, finally got in. Application created for my wife and I. System broke. Logged in a couple days later. My wife's data is gone. No ability to add it back in. No ability to delete current application. No ability to start a new application. It's a mess.
Registering and using vastly different. Given that it took them years to get this far, I don't have a whole lot of hope that this will be usable for everyone, with data problems sorted, by March. Possible, but not likely. Especially because the attitude of "hey, just go somewhere else to buy" is so quick to be used. If that's really the case, why did we bother to even put this together, if it's not at all necessary or required?
There's going to be massive loads of hidden bugs that will plague this for months, if not years. Having such a tight deadline on it is crazy because it's not at all how any large insurance agency works, nor is it how the federal government works.
I think it's pretty obvious that if the bugs aren't sufficiently fixed within the next few weeks, the individual mandate penalty will be waived or at least delayed.
I don't give a flying rip about the individual mandate penalty. But..
If you need insurance and you just received a cancel notice from BCBS that your policy is gone as of Jan 1st it becomes imperative that this exchange work within the next few weeks.
This isn't a political game real people are going to be royally hozed and soon if this doesn't get fixed.
No, 9 weeks would require everyone who must get a new policy by Jan 1 to get all the way through all the systems, exchanges -> insurance companies, in the last three days of December.
Even if several paths are kludged for these most desperate millions of people losing their current coverage Jan 1, I can't see how any more time than 7 weeks is feasible, leaving 2 and a fraction to process them. And to know the system is really working, large numbers, 10s of thousands, had better be getting successfully through the systems before then.
They've completely hosed up existing data.
Took me 2 weeks to get in, finally got in. Application created for my wife and I. System broke. Logged in a couple days later. My wife's data is gone. No ability to add it back in. No ability to delete current application. No ability to start a new application. It's a mess.
Registering and using vastly different. Given that it took them years to get this far, I don't have a whole lot of hope that this will be usable for everyone, with data problems sorted, by March. Possible, but not likely. Especially because the attitude of "hey, just go somewhere else to buy" is so quick to be used. If that's really the case, why did we bother to even put this together, if it's not at all necessary or required?
There's going to be massive loads of hidden bugs that will plague this for months, if not years. Having such a tight deadline on it is crazy because it's not at all how any large insurance agency works, nor is it how the federal government works.