The House’s top investigators want to know if the Obama administration made a political decision to get rid of an online tool that would have allowed uninsured Americans to comparison-shop among private health plans on the federal Obamacare website before registering for an account.
Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to the administration’s top information technology officers on Tuesday to demand answers about the purported maneuver.
They cited committee briefings with CGI Federal — the lead contractor on HealthCare.gov, which channels Obamacare traffic from three dozen states — as the catalyst for their suspicions.
“Although CGI officials were not able to identify who within the administration made the decision to disable the anonymous shopping feature, evidence is mounting that political considerations motivated the decision,” Mr. Issa and four other committee Republicans said in their letter to U.S. Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel and Chief Technology Officer Todd Park.
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A Wall Street Journal article cited in the House letter said the administration wanted to make sure that users were aware of any subsidies they qualified for — before they got a look at the prices of various health policies.
Mr. Issa’s letter suggested the register-first model caused the site to jam up.
“Many IT experts have suggested that the decision to disable the anonymous shopping feature contributed to the failure of healthcare.gov on October 1, 2013, and in the weeks that have followed,” the lawmakers said in their letter.
After telling Americans Monday what a Great Deal they'll get...How they're going to save money on this wonderful product....
Why wouldn't he want Americans to be able to compare all those great prices BEFORE they register on the site? Could it be perhaps THAT THEY'RE NOT THAT GREAT?
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2 comments:
As with everything this administration does, there's always a reason to believe the worst. So of course they didn't want people to know the truth. Plus, even after you get to the prices, they are not the right prices! Just estimates! Wonder why?!
-Martha
After telling Americans last Monday what a Great Deal they'll get...How they're going to save money on this wonderful product....
Why wouldn't he want Americans to be able to compare all those great prices BEFORE they register on the site? Could it be perhaps THAT THEY'RE NOT THAT GREAT?
HIS ANSWER to the Problem? Put in a option that UNDER estimates the true costs of policies by 2 or 3 times the actual price.
You can't make this crap up...
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