1. The current major problems with the ObamaCare exchange website appear to be:
- much of the software code that operates away from website users and passes their information along to insurance companies has not even been written
- the White House refuses to say how many people have actually been able to sign up and enroll in an insurance plan (although it did tout repeatedly that 375,000 people had visited the Healthcare.gov website before noon Eastern Time on Monday)
- Important pieces of the Obamacare site are still glitchy, or missing altogether. And the site’s botched rollout is hardly boosting confidence in the vital components that still need to be built, including the systems for processing payments to insurers and squaring away the details of who has enrolled in which plans.
- CGI Federal - the contractor that has come under fire for its work building the bulk of HealthCare.gov - is also in charge of building the payment and reconciliation systems.
How many news reports on these problems have you heard/read about in the past week, or at least seen headlines pertaining to these stories?
2. Do you think the media is displaying bias by not widely reporting on the major problems with the ObamaCare website? Explain your answer.