ObamaCare disapproval at 55 up from 53 in September
By Ferdous Al-Faruque and Elise Viebeck
The news underscores the depth of technical problems with the Massachusetts Health Connector
and echoes a recent decision by Cover Oregon another glitch-ridden marketplace to hand federal health officials the reins to its system this month. Massachusetts is preparing
to abandon its troubled ObamaCare enrollment website a system so problematic that the state was forced to enroll 10s of 1000s of people in temporary insurance plans through Medicaid.
Opposition hits new high: While Democrats are hoping higher than expected ObamaCare enrollment will raise the laws popularity that doesnt seem to be the case yet according to a new
Pew and USA Today poll.
Disapproval of the new healthcare law has actually gone up to 55 from 53 last September before the launch of Healthcare.gov.
Massachusetts officials are pursuing what they described as a dual-track strategy for their insurance marketplace: combining new off-the-shelf enrollment software with a back-up plan to shift the system into HealthCare.gov if the transition takes too long.
Ive said all along that no option on the table would be perfect and the dual track certainly has its benefits and its challenges said Sarah Iselin special assistant to Gov. Deval Patrick (D) in a statement Monday.
It does however solve for two realities: we need a reliable website to help people during the next open enrollment period and we need to be in a position to achieve a fully integrated system in 2015 she added.
Iselin will present the plan to the Connectors board of directors on Thursday.
In Oregon meanwhile the Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly launched a preliminary inquiry into the botched rollout of the state exchange. While the agency would not confirm a probe is underway the Portland Oregonian wrote Friday that some suspect Oregon officials misled the federal government about the exchanges progress.
State by state:
- Colorado health care exchange faces financial challenges
- Healthcare costs squeezing Long Island workers
- New Healthcare navigator regulations being pushed in Missouri
- State lawmaker says Obamacare sign ups like Nazi train rides
- Healthcares $85 billion challenge uncompensated care in the Obamacare age
