On CMS call, Miami Herald reporter says he's hearing local navigators are having a harder time enrolling people today than before.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) December 2, 2013
Three reporters from major papers – WashPost, LAT, WSJ – asked for the 834 error rate. None of us got answers. Frustrating.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) December 2, 2013
You will now if they have really lost patience when they call it what it really is -lying-and they start demanding accountability like real journalists used to do.
But what the review of the website reveals you still can’t complete the process, they don’t have the back end worked out, they’ve just made the front end a little faster and more receptive, with waiting rooms to shove people into.
Via Mediaite
Reporters from a variety of outlets are losing patience with the federal government’s lack of forthrightness regarding how much progress there has been in repairing the ailing insurance exchange web portal. Reporters from the Washington Post and the Huffington Post took to Twitter on Monday to blast the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for stonewalling them when they asked about the progress in building and repairing the ACA website’s backend.
Reporters from a number of outlets joined a conference call on Monday where they asked a CMS spokesperson to clarify whether they had resolved the issues relating to “834 EDI transmissions.” 834’s, as Washington Post WonkBlog journalist Sarah Kliff reported in October, are a backend code that “tells the insurer’s system who you are and what you need