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LIFE SUPPORT WHY HEALTHCARE.GOV IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED THE NATION BLAMED THE GOP FOR THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. MAYBE ALL THE DEMOCRATS NEEDED WAS A FUNCTIONAL HEALTH CARE SITE. QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE A FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE OPINION OF. IN A LATE-OCT. 42% POLL CONDUCTED President Obama 51% BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 46% AND NBC NEWS, Democrats 49% PRESIDENT OBAMA EARNED HIS 32% LOWEST EVER Republicans 63% APPROVAL RATING. 26% Tea Party 59% WEEK ONE OF HEALTHCARE.GOV'S OPEN ENROLLMENT, BY THE NUMBERS 9,740,000 (100%) unique visitors to healthcare.gov IN THE INTERNET AGE, A WORKING WEBSITE CAN REACH MILLIONS 5,680,000 (60%). visted the individual marketplace ACROSS THE COUNTRY 3,720,000 (40%) attempted to register INSTANTLY. RIGHT? 1,010,000 (10.7%) completed registration 196,000 (2.1%)· began enrollment 271,000 (2.8%). successfully logged in WRONG. Only 36,000 (.38%) of healthcare.gov visitors completed enrollment. SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WEBSITE, THEN? These plan prices are wrong! I'm getting confusing error messages. I'm having trouble logging in. The insurance My spouse is being reported as one of my children?! information is scrambled. The calculator isn't working. The site keeps freezing! WHICH LEAD TO LARGER CONCERNS: WILL ENROLLMENT GLITCHES BECOME PROVIDER GLITCHES? WILL I EVEN HAVE INSURANCE WHEN I SHOW UP TO THE DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL? IS MY PERSONAL INFORMATION SAFE? NO REPUTABLE E-MARKETPLACE WOULD ROLL OUT PRODUCT THIS FLAWED. ebay craigslist ® What do these e-tailers have in common? They all have MORE monthly visitors than the government's health care website, healthcare.gov. overstock.com amazon.com. SHOPPING CENTRALIZING HEALTH DATA WILL HAVE BIG REPERCUSSIONS. SSN Giving personal health information over to government agencies can be GOOD (if it leads to an efficient health Address Birth date Family History care system) or BAD (by risking governmental abuse, and leaving all the data an identity thief could want open to would-be takers). Medical Records THIS PROBLEM RUNS DEEPER THAN JUST A WEBSITE. BECAUSE THE NUMBERS JUST DON'T ADD UP. FAKE MARKET EFFICIENCY REAL MARKET EFFICIENCY The federal goveroment tends to give contracts to the same small group of Many ideas compete to take over the massive pool of people in need of health insurance. companies over and over. CGI Like CGI Federal, makers of healthcare .gov. (Yes, the same CGI that lost a $46.2 million contract with Ontario The best approaches are singled out. Companies are incentivized to innovate by market share and the opportunity for greater compensation. after years of missed deadlines.) CGI's stock went up after the healthcare .gov launch. They are likely to get future contracts, simply because they have worked at the federal level. Unfortunately, CGI has no incentive to improve their product; they get paid the same rate regardless. The result? A working marketplace, at the least. At most, a revolutionary e-marketplace. THE BOTTOM LINE? UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS IMPORTANT, BUT CRONY CAPITALISM DOESN'T SOLVE ANYTHING. SOURCES http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/30/21252250-nbcwsj-poll-obama-approval-sinks-to-new-low?lite http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/10/22/National-Politics/Polling/release_272.xml https://blog.compete.com/2013/10/15/obamacare-enrollment-stats/ http://www.nextgov.com/health/2013/10/less-1-percent-healthcaregov-visitors-successfully-enrolled-insurance-plan/72041/ BROUGHT TO YOU BY HEALTHCARE-ADMINISTRATION-DEGREE.NET