From Politico:
Even in states where Obamacare enrollment is booming, insurance companies are running into significant behind-the-scenes technical glitches that could threaten Jan. 1 health coverage.
Many of these 14 states and the District of Columbia have been eager to tout the success of their own exchanges compared with the bungled federal portal, but they now appear to be worrying about back-end problems similar to those afflicting
It’s a new twist in the unfolding saga of so-called 834 forms — industry jargon for the application files that insurers receive when someone signs up for coverage through an exchange.
Insurers in Kentucky and New York, for example, say they’ve received flawed 834 enrollment forms from their local exchanges, though the extent of the errors is unclear. Washington state has already had to correct thousands of 834s with faulty information about federal tax credits.
Several state exchanges waited until late last month to even start sending application data to insurers, meaning potential errors haven’t had much time to surface.
At the least, these issues run counter to the popular storyline: that states’ enrollment systems have vastly outperformed the Obama administration’s effort. At the worst, they could endanger coverage for thousands of people who think they’re already enrolled for the start of 2014.
This shouldn't be shocking, since they're all using the same back end infrastructure, but we haven't had confirmation of this up until now. We don't know for sure what the error rate is (as with everything else related to the flubbed roll out officials are stonewalling) but we can assume that
like with the federal website it's 10%
That extends the possibility that a significant number of people who think they have an Obamacare plan will get a dirty little surprise if they try and visit the doctor after January 1st to the entire country.
You can't blame Republican governors for this one.