A top Obama administration official told Congress Thursday that the automated system to send payments to insurance companies is still under construction and didn’t offer a completion date, media outlets report.
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The White House spent December talking up its revamped and repaired healthcare.gov website after the disastrous rollout. But health officials worried that the underperforming contractor could still derail Obamacare and destabilize the insurance industry, according to a new federal document. The concerns grew so acute that they decided to seek a new contractor (Cheney, 1/17).
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The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire: Under Construction: Healthcare.gov’s Payment System
An Obama administration official told Congress Thursday that the “back-end†of healthcare.gov is still being built and he didn’t forecast a completion date. An automated system to send payments to insurance companies isn’t finished, said Gary Cohen, the director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, an office in the federal Medicare agency that oversees the troubled website for buying health insurance (Corbett Dooren, 1/16).