By Robert Laurie —— Bio and Archives September 22, 2014
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner told a House panel Thursday that there will be "visible improvement, but not perfection" on HealthCare.gov. Companies and state officials, who will process millions of applications for insurance and Medicaid, hope the files that reach them are far more complete and accurate than they were during the last enrollment period. Missouri found it couldn't enroll up to 90% of about 80,000 Medicaid applications it received because of problems, says Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. "The challenges we saw were legion and well-documented," Salo says. "It's not going to be that bad, (but) neither is it going to be smooth and seamless."I know, I know. After last year's debacle you were absolutely, positively, 100% sure that the problems were fixed. You were walking around saying to yourself, "this year, the law I hate is - at the very least - going to deliver a seamless sign up process." Polling may say that no one likes the ACA, no one has any faith in it, and virtually everyone wants it repealed or altered in some way, but you? You knew that, if nothing else, the website would work perfectly. We're sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Only the other hand, you can look at it this way: The Obama administration has managed to continue its unbroken streak of achieving "not perfection" in absolutely everything it does. So, in that sense, they are indeed batting a thousand.
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