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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Thu Oct 10, 2013, 05:33 PM Oct 2013

Hawaii Relaunching Obamacare Exchange After Not Selling Any Health Insurance Due To Software Problem

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s health insurance marketplace is hoping to turn around a stalled start by providing plans and pricing to consumers by Oct. 15 — but there are no guarantees, its executive director said Wednesday.

Coral Andrews, executive director of Hawaii Health Connector, told state lawmakers Wednesday that getting the marketplace running properly has been a fluid situation, with circumstances changing every day.

“We want to make sure that we’re doing it the right way,” Andrews said after testifying for more than an hour before a panel of lawmakers representing three House and three Senate committees.

The insurance exchange — a key component of President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul — hasn’t been able to sell any insurance in Hawaii because of problems with the software at the heart of the marketplace. Consumers can’t see plans, even though a variety of options from two insurers have been approved to be sold by the state’s insurance division.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/10/hawaii-relaunching-obamacare-exchange-after-not-selling-any-health-insurance-due-to-software-problems/

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Hawaii Relaunching Obamacare Exchange After Not Selling Any Health Insurance Due To Software Problem (Original Post) PoliticAverse Oct 2013 OP
Contracted the job out to RW saboteurs without knowing it would be my guess. kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #1
John Glenn's thoughts on being launched into space vinny9698 Oct 2013 #2

vinny9698

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2. John Glenn's thoughts on being launched into space
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 08:11 AM
Oct 2013

The lowest bid got the contract to build 1000;s of parts to make this possible. All it takes is for one part to malfunction.
Remember Apollo 13.

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