Obamacare’s ‘Faulty Data’ Could Mean Some Americans Who Sign Up Won’t Be Covered

“Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won’t be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan,” Bloomberg reports. This latest glitch in the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges could undermine the arguments made by some of the law’s supporters who suggest that the problems associated with the program’s debut are merely cosmetic.

According to consultants working with companies to navigate the new exchanges Bloomberg reporters spoke with, insurance providers “are receiving electronic files that can’t open or have so much missing information on new enrollees they’re unusable.”

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“If we don’t see substantial improvement by the end of this week, then I would throw up the yellow flag,” said one consultant.

This latest problem with the exchanges coincides with a week in which the newly opened exchanges website, Healthcare.Gov, was reportedly overwhelmed with visitors and was unable to function properly.

h/t Bloomberg

[Photo via Healthcare.Gov]

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