From Senator Charles Grassley –
When people do manage to register themselves on healthcare.gov, it’s not clear insurance companies are able to take the next step and enroll the registrants in health care coverage. News reports show problems with the individual information insurers use to enroll the individuals in a health care plan. Inaccurate or corrupted data would interfere with successful enrollment. That has implications for when the Administration should enforce the individual mandate requiring enrollment. It would be unfair to penalize people for not having health insurance when technical problems have impeded their enrollment.
Enrollment numbers continue to be extremely hard to come by. That’s worrisome. Government programs should be transparent because transparency brings accountability for the significant taxpayer dollars and resources at stake.
Performing our constitutional responsibility of oversight of the executive branch of government, a fellow senator and I are seeking information on our own. We asked four major health insurers for their healthcare.gov enrollment numbers, and we sought contracts and cost information from the companies that built the flawed healthcare.gov.
This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over much of the new health care program. She should expect to deliver concrete facts on the new health care program’s troubled rollout and provisions that are affecting millions of Americans, from cancellation of their current insurance to reductions in their work hours related to the new law.
The President achieved what he sees as the signature accomplishment of his tenure. He and his Administration are responsible for every aspect of that signature accomplishment, including what doesn’t work and what undermines the previously successful parts of the health care system.
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Remember when we were to view all laws before passed, 5 days before on .C-Span.?? Did we ever see one? Promises, promises. All election hype. Many bought into it. All big elections should be taken with a grain of salt in the future. They just look out for themselves once they get into that Government job. Some day there will be a riot in the streets. Just look at the healthcare now. They all ALL exempted themselves out of it. When the cook, doesn’t want to eat what they fixed, that should be your first clue.