ObamaCare D-Day in March

A document coming from the administration has recently come to light that discloses the entire ObamaCare program is in jeopardy of collapse.  Of course, the White House did not inform the American people of this prospect but was compelled to post the news on a federal website -- away from the inquiring minds of millions of Americans who may suffer even more from ObamaCare.  So much for Barack Obama's boast that his administration would be the most transparent in history.

While the web portal of Healthcare.Gov has received a lot of attention, the true problem lies like an iceberg underneath the public face of the website.  This is the "back end" of the website: the part that transmits information to insurance companies.

There have been scattered reports that there has been "a failure to communicate" between the portal, the insurance companies, and the government, but the scope and the severity of the problem has been barely covered.  The administration and its flacks have routinely dismissed previous problems as "glitches" (see this Monty Python "Just a flesh wound" skit as symbolic of this Pollyannaish strategy), but will have a tougher time downplaying this man-made disaster in the making.

From the non-partisan The Hill in a column titled Document: ObamaCare contractor faces mid-March deadline or disaster:

If the ObamaCare contractor brought on last week to fix the back-end of the HealthCare.gov portal doesn't finish the build-out by mid-March the healthcare law will be jeopardized, according to a procurement document posted on a federal website.

It says insurers could be bankrupt and the entire healthcare industry threatened if the build out is not completed....

"There is limited time to build this functionality and failure to deliver...by mid-March 2014 will result in financial harm to the government," the document says.

"If this functionality is not complete by mid-March 2014, the government could make erroneous payments to providers and insurers," it continues.  "Additionally, without a Financial Management platform that accounts for enrollments and associated program costs that integrates with the existing CMS Accounting platform, the entire healthcare reform program is jeopardized."

Many of those who have signed up for ObamaCare are eligible for federal subsidies, which the government pays directly to the insurers.  The document says that failure to complete the project by mid-March can result in "inaccurate issuance of payments to health plans which could seriously put them at financial risk; potentially leading to their default and disrupting continued services and coverage to consumers."

Via: American Thinker
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