Washingtonians brave enough to buy Obamacare on the state-run website have met with a plethora of what officials decide as “software issues” and “human errors.” According to The Columbian, “at least 6,000 accounts have been affected by the billing problems” which include “lost money and information between the exchange and insurance companies and customers not being properly credited by the exchange for their insurance payments.” Officials claim that “thousands of accounts have been repaired each month but new problems keep popping up.”
It now appears as though Jay Inslee and Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler have simply given up on attempting to solve the “software issues.” Last week, Inslee and Kreidler reached an agreement which would allow “anyone experiencing technical difficulties with the health exchange” to bypass the exchange’s “payment system and pay their insurance companies directly.”
A clear directive to ignore the failure of the public sector and opt for the expertise of the private.
