Remember all the analogies saying that government run Obamacare would be about as good as your typical DMV office? You should expect long waits often to find out your request cannot be processed during your first visit and you would be referred to another DMV employee to get resolution.

Well we are about to start month 2 of Obamacare and the online service is offline almost as much as it is online. Registration is a multistep process meaning you have to comeback to the website more than once just to register. Once you are register ONLY then can you enroll.

Now there is an call center set up to answer your questions not to enroll you. IF you ask a question they cannot answer that question is referred to the Advanced Resolution Center which will respond via e-mail in 2 Business Days to the question, which may or may not be the information you need.


Sounds a lot like the DMV to me.

At least it was cheap.

(10-22-2013 06:03 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  At least it was cheap.

I can't wait to spend some of that $2,700 savings I'm going to get next year.

Hey, it's so bad that if you don't laugh you'll cry, right?

And frankly, this was going to be the easy part.

I still can't get my identity verified and I don't really care enough to call in and verify it.

I have healthcare from work, but I pay about $220/mo for it, so I'd kinda like to check it out although I anticipate it will cost more than my current coverage since I make decent money. More than anything I just want to check it out out of sheer interest to gauge it for myself.

(10-22-2013 07:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I still can't get my identity verified and I don't really care enough to call in and verify it.

I have healthcare from work, but I pay about $220/mo for it, so I'd kinda like to check it out although I anticipate it will cost more than my current coverage since I make decent money. More than anything I just want to check it out out of sheer interest to gauge it for myself.

No, you have health insurance from work, not health care from work. Health insurance is not health care. The left wants to blur the line, or eradicate it, because that will make their misguided policies easier to sell. Don't fall for it.

symantics. You know what I meant.

(10-22-2013 07:39 PM)Niner National Wrote:  symantics. You know what I meant.

I know, except I think you mean "semantics." Damn, I'm being picky tonight. But that one is joking. The previous one is dead serious.

My point is that the left is actively trying to blur the line and make health insurance the equivalent of health care. Those opposed to Obamacare need to be particularly careful not to fall for the deception.

(10-22-2013 07:56 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:39 PM)Niner National Wrote:  symantics. You know what I meant.

I know. My point is that the left is actively trying to blur the line and make health insurance the equivalent of health care. Those opposed to Obamacare need to be particularly careful not to fall for the deception.

I wouldn't even make an inquiry because of the amount of irrelevant personal information they ask for.

I'd also be very wary of the security of the information on that site.
Given all of it's other problems I doubt they managed to create a site that is hack proof.

Actually, Obamacare is failing much faster than republicans predicted.

(10-22-2013 06:16 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  And frankly, this was going to be the easy part.

Wait till they actually have to pay some Dr.s

If the front end is this bad, the b2b stuff on the back end is probably completely non-functional.

(10-22-2013 07:26 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I still can't get my identity verified and I don't really care enough to call in and verify it.

I have healthcare from work, but I pay about $220/mo for it, so I'd kinda like to check it out although I anticipate it will cost more than my current coverage since I make decent money. More than anything I just want to check it out out of sheer interest to gauge it for myself.

No, you have health insurance from work, not health care from work. Health insurance is not health care. The left wants to blur the line, or eradicate it, because that will make their misguided policies easier to sell. Don't fall for it.

True.

(10-23-2013 07:24 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:26 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I still can't get my identity verified and I don't really care enough to call in and verify it.

I have healthcare from work, but I pay about $220/mo for it, so I'd kinda like to check it out although I anticipate it will cost more than my current coverage since I make decent money. More than anything I just want to check it out out of sheer interest to gauge it for myself.

No, you have health insurance from work, not health care from work. Health insurance is not health care. The left wants to blur the line, or eradicate it, because that will make their misguided policies easier to sell. Don't fall for it.

True.

My work brings in free flu shot clinics, free mammograms, free masseuses and their chairs, healthy eating seminars.... Etc. So, kind of healthcare. Albeit they don't actually provide it they bring in the providers.

Positive Rep me and I'll vote for Obama in 2016

(10-23-2013 08:44 AM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  My work brings in free flu shot clinics, free mammograms, free masseuses and their chairs, healthy eating seminars.... Etc. So, kind of healthcare. Albeit they don't actually provide it they bring in the providers.

Nothing is free. You paid for all of this through either your 1) premiums or 2) money being taken out of the company party fund.

We just got Nutri-bullets in the kitchens so we can make delicious smoothies. At $150 a pop, I figure there goes about 4 bottles of booze from the Christmas party....

(10-23-2013 08:44 AM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  

(10-23-2013 07:24 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:26 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 07:13 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I still can't get my identity verified and I don't really care enough to call in and verify it.

I have healthcare from work, but I pay about $220/mo for it, so I'd kinda like to check it out although I anticipate it will cost more than my current coverage since I make decent money. More than anything I just want to check it out out of sheer interest to gauge it for myself.

No, you have health insurance from work, not health care from work. Health insurance is not health care. The left wants to blur the line, or eradicate it, because that will make their misguided policies easier to sell. Don't fall for it.

True.

My work brings in free flu shot clinics, free mammograms, free masseuses and their chairs, healthy eating seminars.... Etc. So, kind of healthcare. Albeit they don't actually provide it they bring in the providers.

Positive Rep me and I'll vote for Obama in 2016

Not all employers are so generous; you're lucky.

I pay for flu shots for the people in my office out of my own pocket.

Never had a flu shot in my life and I've never had the flu.

(10-23-2013 09:03 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  Never had a flu shot in my life and I've never had the flu.

I was just about to say that. I get a stomach virus MAYBE once every 4 to 5 years. I get an occasional cold that I can easily knock out before it hits me... And I've never once been to the doctor for anything besides when I almost broke both of my ankles and separated my lower ribs at the cartilage back in 2005.

That's why I don't need this bullsh*t ass obamaScare.