WASHINGTON — In a new setback for the health care law and the people it’s supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that’s fouling up the filings of nearly a million Americans. After a successful sign-up season, the latest goof could signal new problems with the complex links between President Barack […]
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Mainers rushing to enroll on the health exchange
AUGUSTA — With the first important health care exchange deadline looming, Maine residents are scrambling to sign up for coverage to ensure their benefits will kick in with the start of the new year. Those who assist Mainers with sign-ups say they’ve seen a spike in requests for over-the-phone help and in-person appointments over the […]
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ObamaCare enrollees told to change passwords after Heartbleed review
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — People who have accounts on the enrollment website for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide review of the government’s vulnerability to the confounding Heartbleed Internet security flaw. Senior administration officials said there is no indication that the HealthCare.gov site has […]
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Feds extend deadline an extra day to sign up for ACA
AUGUSTA — Groups helping Mainers figure out their health insurance options on the federal marketplace said Monday that they’re keeping busy ahead of the looming coverage deadlines. The deadline to sign up on the federal marketplace for coverage that kicks in Jan. 1 had been Monday, but federal officials announced that they extended that deadline […]
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In rebuttal, P. Landry: Stop bashing Bush
It was very interesting that the editorial titled “The disaster that is HealthCare.gov,” published Nov. 3, was prefaced by an anecdote about former President George W. Bush and the government’s poor performance handling the Hurricane Katrina disaster. If my memory serves me correctly, that storm was eight years ago and the only similarity between Katrina, […]
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The disaster that is HealthCare.gov
President Barack Obama is having a President George W. Bush moment. Or is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius having a FEMA Director Michael Brown moment? Actually, it’s both. Days after Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States in 2005, and well after the world was aware of the scope of the storm’s destruction […]
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Maine has its share of problems with HealthCare.gov
When Charlene Brousseau first tried a month ago to sign up for health insurance through new online marketplaces, she remained optimistic despite some technical problems. Now, the Manchester woman is thoroughly fed up with the botched rollout of Healthcare .gov, the federal government’s website for the new marketplaces. Over the last few weeks, Brousseau has tried to apply […]
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Federal official blames contractors for HealthCare.gov problems
WASHINGTON — The official most responsible for the rollout of the Obamacare health-insurance exchange Tuesday blamed outside contractors for the website woes, not her staff, in testimony before a House committee. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, led by Marilyn Tavenner, was responsible for building and running the exchange website that is supposed to […]
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Contractors to explain HealthCare.gov problems to Congress
WASHINGTON — The principal contractors responsible for the federal government’s trouble-plagued health insurance website say the Obama administration shares responsibility for the snags that have crippled the system. Executives of CGI Federal, which built the federal HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states, and QSSI, which designed the part that verifies applicants’ income and other personal details, […]