According to “war room notes” obtained by CBS, only six Americans enrolled for health insurance after the Healthcare.gov’s October 1st launch. These notes, provided to the House Oversight Committee, document meetings between Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services bureaucrats and contractors hired for the site’s design and launch. The details reveal steady documentation of early issues. From the October 2nd “AM” meeting, officials were aware that, “direct enrollment (signing up directly on an insurer’s website) is not working for any issuers,” and “the VA system not connecting, Experian (credit reporting agency) is creating confusion with credit check information.”By the afternoon, direct enrollment was still not working. “Consumer access issues are occurring; some estimates show 40,000 people in the waiting room.” At the time of that report approximately 100 enrollments had been completed. By end of business, 248 were enrolled. The documents also counter claims made by officials that daily performance and enrollment data is unavailable. The head of CMS, Marilyn Tavenner, refused to disclose figures this week to House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp. “Chairman Camp, we will have those numbers available in mid-November,” she said. According to internal notes, these details are available daily. “Statistics coming in,” says the October 2nd morning meeting notes. “QSSI has a daily dashboard created every night.” QSSI is a contracting agency hired to design the Affordable Care Act exchange’s data hub. The company has since been subpoenaed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). Read more at TLR: Only 6 people signed up for Obamacare on first day, documents reveal (VIDEO) | The Libertarian Republic thelibertarianrepublic/6-signed-obamacare-first-day-documents-reveal/#ixzz2jRm8FPjz Follow us: @LibRepublic on Twitter | LibertarianRepublic on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 01:22:06 +0000