. . . State Asks Feds For Another $121 Million To Fix It…



The funny thing is the Mass exchange worked fine when it was under Romneycare, the second they switched it over to comply with Obamacare it fell apart.

Quote: The total cost to implement Obamacare in Massachusetts surpassed a half-billion dollars yesterday, as the Health Connector board agreed to seek an additional $121 million in federal funds to try to rescue the money-hemorrhaging health exchange.

“This is now Massachusetts’ Big Dig I.T. project,” said Joshua Archambault, a health care expert at the Pioneer Institute. “The decision was completely irresponsible to taxpayers, with very little uncertainty we’re going to get the end result that we want.”

The board approved a two-track plan yesterday — invoking an emergency provision to sidestep state procurement laws — to award a no-bid contract to Minnesota-based Optum. The company will, in turn, subcontract with hCentive — which it holds a 24 percent stake in, as the Herald first reported yesterday.

Connector officials insisted the exchange is so broken they had no choice.

“The reality is, this is it,” said Sarah Iselin, the state’s Obamacare czar. “When we look at what we can reasonably do for the fall, this is it. I wish we had more choices, but we don’t. We’re making the best of a really lousy situation.”

Federal taxpayers will be asked to shell out the cost of pursuing a “dual track” of simultaneously implementing software to build a new state exchange and joining the federal Healthcare.gov as a fallback plan.

Only board member George Gonser Jr. voted no, arguing it could make insurance more expensive.

“We all know there’s an incredible impact on the carriers, and … these costs trickle down to users and subscribers and small businesses,” he said.

http://bostonherald.com/business/healthc...ssing_500m

Why get federal funds for a state F-up? Why should the people of Texas or Florida pay for the fiascos in Massachusetts, Nevada, or Oregon? There is no incentive to do this right because everyone knows the democrat federal government will bail out states just to make the failure known as Obamacare work.

Because the exchange was not "owned" by the state.. it was a Federally implemented Exchange that the state ran.

It must be nice on the Obama graveytrain.

But wait? Haven't we been told that they're exactly the same?


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Hawaii's exchange is is trouble too.

http://news.yahoo.com/insurance-ceo-shut...53745.html

they have Romneycare.....why do they need an exchange?

(05-10-2014 09:05 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  they have Romneycare.....why do they need an exchange?

Ummm, maybe because Obamacare is NOT Romneycare?

It was a joke.............poorly constructed maybe, but a joke, nonetheless..........

(05-10-2014 09:30 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  It was a joke.............poorly constructed maybe, but a joke, nonetheless..........

Apparently "poorly constructed" will get you an additional $121 million in federal funds.

Do you guys remember when the left was spinning this lie that the only states having trouble were those eveil red states that did not implement their own exchange..

"The federal healthcare exchanges have been criticized since they opened, but state-run exchanges have been quietly enrolling thousands of Americans. In Kentucky, more than 7,000 applications were completed in just two days. Hawaii signed 1,200 people up on the first day alone. And, Connecticut has already enrolled more than 1,000 people. These numbers clearly show how well the Affordable Care Act roll out would have been if more states created their own insurance marketplaces. And, it makes clear why many Republican-led states opted to put more work on the federal government.

According to healthcare experts, state-based exchanges offer simpler design and services, and they were better tested before the roll out. However, the federal government faced the challenge of setting up a much larger infrastructure that would be able to handle a huge volume of activity. Essentially, Republican lawmakers knew that pushing this task on to the Administration meant a more complicated system, which they believed made it more likely to fail. But, the Affordable Healthcare Act appears to be off to a great start, and it's a strong first step toward real national healthcare. - Thom Hartmann

Now Oregon, Mass are pretty much gone... Hawaii and Minnesota are on the ropes as are other states..

Here is the dirty little secret about computers kids... They are only good at doing the same specific task over and over again... If you ask them to so something stupid or impossible they cant work.

Federal intrusion into insurance is normally going to increase costs.