berita hari ini : White House deems health exchange glitches unacceptable, GOP calls ... - New York Daily News MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama on Monday will directly address the technical problems with HealthCare.gov — troubles that he and his team find unacceptable — and discuss the actions he has pushed for to make it easier for consumers to comparison shop and enroll for insurance while work continues around the clock to improve the website, a Whited House official said. The U.S. government has reopened, but the Obama administration now faces a new potential political disaster — glitch-laden federal health care exchanges. Administration officials have no time to waste as they race to find a prescription to heal the sickly exchanges while Republicans, battered by the shutdown debacle, quickly gear up to bash Obamacare by touting troubles with the rollout. President Barack Obama will address the “unacceptable” problems with the system in remarks Monday, according to a White House official. “The President will directly address the technical problems with HealthCare.gov — troubles that he and his team find unacceptable — and discuss the actions he has pushed for to make it easier for consumers to comparison shop and enroll for insurance while work continues around the clock to improve the website,” the official said. In New York, one of only 16 states that has its own exchange, not one person had succeeded in using the site to enroll in any plan as of Friday. Donna Frescatore, director of the New York State of Health marketplace, said Friday that 134,000 people had registered and shopped on the state’s online health care site since its Oct. 1 launch, and thousands signed up to enroll in a plan. Mark Wilson/Getty Images U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebelius is under fire for problems with federal health care exchanges. But the state has repeatedly delayed electronically transmitting those users’ data to insurers offering health plans. RELATED: GOP LEADERS SAY NO MORE SHUTDOWNS, CRUZ SAYS NO TO THEM The department, which held off in order to verify the accuracy of the information users submitted, said it would transfer the first batch of enrollees’ data — which includes thousands of transactions — as early as Friday night. Meanwhile, insurers were worried that the state website had incorrect information on details of plans that are available. “We have heard from some plans that some of the information they thought was going to be there isn’t showing up,” said Leslie Moran, a spokeswoman for the New York Health Plan Association. In Washington, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged in a blog post Sunday afternoon that the system has been beset with woes. MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS The Affordable Care Act — or Obamacare — signup page on the HealthCare.gov website. “Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been frustrating for many Americans,” it said in an understatement. “I think that there’s no one more frustrated than the President at the difficulty in the website,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The government was shut down Oct. 1 as the Republicans sought to defund Obamacare. RELATED: PRESIDENT OBAMA FRUSTRATED WITH PROBLEM-PLAGUED ROLLOUT OF HEALTH CARE LAW That was the same day that the insurance marketplace came online at HealthCare.gov — and proved nearly impossible to use to sign up for health care. Users are unable to complete the online process because of programming problems. In New York, one of only 16 states that has its own health care exchange, not one person had succeeded in using the website to enroll in any plan as of Friday. Republicans — distracted by the shutdown battle — missed a chance to make political hay over the technical meltdown. That’s a political misstep the party is hustling to correct. “While shutdown took up front pages for two weeks and Obamacare was not highlighted as much as it would have been otherwise, the flaws in this unpopular law will take center stage now,” a Senate Republican aide said Friday. “The law is a disaster,” the aide added. “People are going to notice it.” “Democrats will be forced to answer tough questions that they may have gotten away with not answering before,” the aide said. RELATED: OBAMA SLAMS GOP FOR GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN The White Houses website for health care coverage. Republicans demanded that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testify about problems with HealthCare.gov before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday. They hope to press on her on why she claimed in July that the project was on track when agency documents show that alarm was growing among officials involved that it was far behind schedule. The agency on Friday told the panel that the recent end of the shutdown meant Sebelius had insufficient notice to attend the hearing. Sebelius’ department also faces fire for taking too long to issue specifications to contractors working on software for the website and for failing to hire a contractor to manage the many companies working on parts of the site. Another top administration official, Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell, would not guarantee on Friday that problems with the site would be fixed by Dec. 14. That’s the deadline for buying policies that kick in next year, when Americans who lack health insurance will start to face fines under Obamacare’s individual mandate. “The administration has put together a team and is deeply focused on the issues of how do we fix those problems,” Burwell said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. bhammond@nydailynews klik baca selanjutnya : ift.tt/16m8xU9
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