Thursday, October 16, 2014

OBAMAmess: How Team Obama is Obscuring Facts about your Health Insurance until After the Election ..

.. and they're hoping you're too stupid to notice or care:
The second Obamacare open enrollment is scheduled to begin on November 15th and end on February 15th. Instead of learning critical lessons from the mistakes of the first open enrollment fiasco, the Obama administration appears to be trying to silence potential critics.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the administration sent an email to the insurance companies participating in Obamacare telling them to keep their mouths shut about the testing of the new health law's enrollment system saying, that unlike last year, they would require "all testers (the insurance companies) to acknowledge the confidentiality of this process" before they would be allowed to participate. The administration reminded insurers that their confidentiality agreement with the Obama administration means that insurance executives "will not use, disclose, post to a public forum, or in any way share Test Data with any person or entity, included but not limited to media..." This includes any "results of this testing exercise and any information describing or otherwise relating to the performance or functionality" of the Obamacare enrollment and eligibility system.
A year ago when the Obamacare enrollment system crashed and shut out millions of people trying to sign up for health insurance the only credible information we had came from the insurers who were participating in the program.
During Obamacare's first few weeks the administration refused to admit anything was wrong. In fact, just as consumers were vainly trying to sign up for insurance then Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius encouraged people to keep trying saying, "We're working to ensure it's easy to use," arguing that more than 13 million people had visited the site, proof of "extraordinary" interest. She told all of us that HealthCare.gov was "open for business."
But as we now know, the truth was a lot different.
That's not the only way the administration continues to use dubious methods to manage public opinion.
Read the rest of the story HERE.

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