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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned in the first hour of the program<\/a>, ladies and gentlemen, that the back end of HealthCare.gov still doesn\u2019t exist. Here are the details. This from Fox News: “Much emphasis has been placed on enrollment stats as [Obamacare]\u2019s inaugural open enrollment period comes to an end. But there\u2019s a key function on the federal exchange that remains inactive:<\/p>\n

“The mechanism to reconcile payments between the government and insurance companies. This ‘back-end mechanism\u2019 has been missing for the entirety of open enrollment period, which launched Oct.1, meaning insurance companies have had to manually bill the government for subsidies and cost-sharing plans, a procedure that\u2019s being dubbed an administrative nightmare.”<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have the personnel for it. It\u2019s supposed to be automated. This is part of any website that sells anything. The back end records the sale to the seller so the seller can begin the fulfillment process and the collection process, and that doesn\u2019t exist. It\u2019s unbelievable. It would be like if you went to Amazon to buy something, and you clicked “submit” when your order was done, and you thought it went.<\/line><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s where it stopped, because Amazon doesn\u2019t go any further than you clicking “submit.” It doesn\u2019t have a record of you clicking “submit,” and it doesn\u2019t have any way of fulfilling your order and it doesn\u2019t have any way of collecting your payment. So you sit there, and you wait for your delivery, and it doesn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n

But you think you\u2019ve paid for it. And after a couple of days go by when it hasn\u2019t shown up, you call and you\u2019re all out of whack because you\u2019ve paid for it. They say, “We don\u2019t have any record of your purchase.” That\u2019s where people are who have purchased health care via the federal exchange HealthCare.gov. <\/p>\n

Now, the problem, aside from the obvious is this: Insurance companies are threatening to pull out of Obamacare if this back end isn\u2019t fixed because they aren\u2019t being paid. The last line here, the last paragraph illustrates why the insurance companies might back out. “Bob Laszewski, author of the Health Care Marketplace and Policy Blog, says the missing payment mechanism is contributing to the lack of clarity over enrollment numbers.” <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t know how many people have signed up, folks<\/a>! They don\u2019t know how many people have signed up and they don\u2019t know how many have paid. They don\u2019t have any record of that at all. Here\u2019s a companion story before I get to this paragraph. This is from The Daily Caller<\/a>: “Nearly 40% of Washington Obamacare Enrollees Haven\u2019t Paid.” This is a state exchange, not HealthCare.gov. <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t even blame the glitches on HealthCare.gov for their problem. This is the Washington state exchange where they can\u2019t even calculate that, and 40% have not paid. So now we know why the federal exchange claims they can\u2019t give out the numbers as to who has paid. It\u2019s because they don\u2019t want anybody to know just how bad things are. That\u2019s the real truth of this. <\/p>\n

Sebelius said<\/a>, “Well, yeah. We said seven million.” Well, how many have signed up? “Well, the number\u2019s constantly in flux. It\u2019s a number that we can\u2019t give. It\u2019s not stagnant. The number\u2019s always moving. The number\u2019s always in flux. It\u2019s always changing. People are signing up new every second of the day. It\u2019s impossible give you a number.” <\/line><\/p>\n

They can\u2019t give us the number \u2019cause they don\u2019t know. “‘I think most carriers would pull out of the program,\u2019 Laszewski says. ‘Everyone believes this will be up and running in a month or two. If not, we will have an administrative nightmare. If I were an executive in a program, I would pull out — you can\u2019t run your business'” this way. Meaning: An insurance company.<\/p>\n

“‘You don\u2019t know what the premium is, who you are covering.'” I don\u2019t know how to adequately describe for you what a disaster this is. The frightening thing is that this is intentional. The frightening thing… Nobody\u2019s gonna believe this, not the low-information crowd. The frightening thing is, this chaos — this mountain of problems for the insurance companies — is by design.<\/p>\n

Because the ultimate aim of the Regime is to eliminate the insurance industry when it comes to insurance — just wipe \u2019em out — because they want single payer. They want everybody getting so frustrated that, at some point, that they throw up their hands and just agree to “simplify” everything by putting everybody on Medicare, which has its own bureaucratic nightmare to deal with. <\/p>\n

There is no panacea or utopia. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no fix or solution.<\/p>\n

Well, there is. That\u2019s not the right thing to say. <\/p>\n

There is a fix, if you get the right tech people involved. If you get an honest system based on a specific set of goals, you could fix this fairly quickly. But it\u2019s because the Regime is just chock-full with people incompetent that don\u2019t know even what the objective here is, other than long-term objective single payer, but all of this mess in the way of getting there, it\u2019s an absolute disaster, and it just frosts me. I don\u2019t know what to do about this. No matter how bad the government screws anything up, it seems like the people of this country are always willing to let the government fix it. <\/p>\n

It seems like the people of this country have the idea or the impression that government\u2019s better at running health care than doctors and hospitals and health professionals. That government\u2019s better at running the energy systems and programs of this country than the actual energy producers. I know part of the reason. The Democrat Party has succeeded<\/a> in convincing people that the private sector operators are a bunch of cheats and liars and fraudsters who are trying to kill their customers, and the government cares. I understand that. <\/p>\n

But at some point everybody who interacts with government in some way has got to realize it doesn\u2019t work. It doesn\u2019t do anything better than what takes place in the private sector. And yet, people continue to invest their hope and their confidence in the government to run things that, in this case, in the case of this administration, they don\u2019t have one person that\u2019s ever done anything successfully in the private sector. <\/p>\n

So no back end on HealthCare.gov; no way of knowing who\u2019s enrolled; no way of knowing how many have paid. The insurance companies have no way of collecting. And they had three years to do this. That is what makes it tough for me to believe that this is simply and strictly incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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