Utter failure: Insurance companies can't even get right data from ACA website

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eceiving-wrong-data-from-obamacare-exchanges/​

Insurers reportedly receiving faulty data from ObamaCare exchanges
Insurers say faulty data from ObamaCare marketplaces is straining their ability to handle even the first wave of consumers who were able to sign up for health insurance using federally run exchanges during the glitch-ridden rollout of the new law.

Executives at more than a dozen health insurance companies say they have received data from online marketplaces that is riddled with errors, including duplicate enrollments, missing data fields and spouses reported as children, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

"The longer this takes to resolve…the harder it will be to get people to [come back and] sign up," Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told the newspaper. "It's not off to a great start," he said, adding, however, that he believes the marketplaces are "here to stay."

Many companies have blocked incoming data and are contacting customers directly to confirm they want the insurance, and in some cases, which insurance, as many came through the system as having bought multiple plans. The House is beginning an investigation into the contractor responsible for the website. From the same story on FoxNews.com ...

Committee member Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Thursday night he wants [HHS Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius to testify at the hearing but she has not so far responded "favorably" to the proposition.

The committee, amid the dispute over the now-lifted partial government shutdown, has been steadily firing off letters over the past several days seeking answers to why the HealthCare.gov site was not fully operational when it launched on Oct. 1.

Much of the scrutiny has focused on the company that received the bulk of the taxpayer money to help create the website -- CGI Federal, a U.S. subsidiary of Canadian firm CGI Group. According to the company's own announcement, it secured a contract in late 2011 worth a total of $93.7 million, with the base value at $55.7 million.

Additionally, numbers are finally starting to flow in as to actual usage of the ACA website since it opened on October 1.

• In the first week, 9.4 million people visited the site
• Of those, only 25% managed to complete the registration process
• Of those, a total of 36,000 people nationwide actually signed up to buy ACA insurance programs
• By the second week, the site's visitor load dropped 88%, to 1.1 million
• Four (4) Iowa residents signed up
• One (1) Delaware resident signed up
• A whopping 26 South Dakotans signed up

And the Great Pretender said: "The number of glitches in the system is more than I think is acceptable." Gee, ya think?

Perhaps this elephant dung of a program will collapse under it's own incompetency, but it still needs to be repealed.