Sebilius is an unending source of frustration with the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
She has had four years to get it right and was there the entire time since the law was passed. There is something wrong if a Cabinet Secretary at HHS can't carry out responsibility that will lead to health care for the nation.
She needs to stop hiding behind her desk and address the press to answer questions.
October 12, 2013
By David Auerbach
...I was, it seems, a bit naive (click here) in thinking there were merely two cooks (or two bulb managers) in the kitchen behind healthcare.gov. The number of players is considerably larger than just front-end architects Development Seed and back-end developers CGI Federal, although the government is saying very little about who’s responsible. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which issued the contracts, is keeping mum, referring reporters to the labyrinthine USASpending.gov for information about contractors. (I was not able to obtain any useful information from that site, though it does make healthcare.gov look pretty good in comparison.)...
There is an easy way to eliminate the problems between interactions of the government site and the insurance companies. Use the government site as an education tool about choices. Then provide links directly to the companies to obtain quotes to policy cost and finally purchase it.
The reason the government site is having issues is because many of the states opted for the federal government to handle THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. What do you expect? Rocket science while keeping the cost down?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will continue to provide health care to Americans while everyone finds comfort with their options. The complaining is outrageous rather than helpful.
The politicizing of health care is outrageous. We are NOT going back to deaths of Americans ever again. This law will have the greatest impact when the social services connected with hospitals seek insurance for the uninsured. The Social Workers in a hospital setting already seeks help for those without insurance, eventually, it will be a tool for them when they become familiar and comfortable with it.
Social Services across the nation should be familiar with this and I guarantee you they aren't. In some states, the options for health care remain the same, either Medicaid or nothing for the uninsured. That is a human rights violation in the neighborhood I come from.
