If you like your ObamaCARE plan, you might not be able to keep your ObamaCARE plan, period. At least 15,000 who thought they bought health insurance from the ObamaCARE exchange really didn’t because the inept website failed to record at least 15,000 purchases. Considering the small amount of actual sign ups for ObamaCARE, this is a fairly significant percentage.
The Obama administration acknowledged this weekend that the federal ObamaCare website failed to record insurance-policy purchases for as many as 15,000 Americans.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Saturday said the transactions were either not recorded or had errors and attributed the problem to “larger technical system issues.”
Agency spokeswoman Julie Bataille said the so-called “834 transaction forms” are processed by health insurance companies when consumers choose a policy on the site, which has been plagued by technical glitches since enrollment started in October.
“As the technical improvements to HealthCare.gov continue making a difference to consumers using the website, our attention remains on addressing issues with the more ‘back end’ parts of the system,” she said. “Our priority is working to make sure that every 834 form is accurate.”