Workers at Covered California have time on their hands...
Check out these posts to their ‘official’ twitter account.These tweets were posted by highly-paid cubicle workers. One tweet was posted during an unplanned system outage (crashed website) that lasted for days, denying access to tens of thousands of Californians worried about the upcoming deadline (March 31).
Wanna date Mila Kunis?
I'm glad those pesky website issues were resolved. Oh wait...
Turns out that while the website was crashed (down for 5 days!), the staff was posting these helpful tidbits on how to pick up women at bars. I’m not making it up.
Here’s the link to the GQ article referenced in the above tweet:
See. The Obama administration said they were going to bring out the big guns and get celebrities involved in pushing healthcare enrollment.
Some quotes from the KCRA article...
"Well I think they better get their act together," said Gayle Vaughn. "Somebody is just not doing their job."
Howard said Covered California engineers worked around the clock to restore service and that customer data was not compromised. [Unless ‘compromised’ means the 37,000 people who think they have coverage but won’t until they start over. From scratch.]
Update--Sacramento Bee: covered-california-software-glitch
Overall, about 37,000 Californians were affected by a software malfunction that led officials to ground the enrollment portal for five days. Those who submitted updates between Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 may have to start over.
“There are some inconveniences that have taken place, but it's not a case where people aren't getting health insurance,” said Howard.
[Howard, that’s EXACTLY what it means when your website keeps people from enrolling for 5 days. Unless you’re willing to extend the DEADLINE by 5 days to make up for YOUR system outage.
I didn’t think so.]
Next comes the ‘ethnic targeting’...
One poster is wondering whether these are legals or illegals. Undocumented immigrants are EXEMPT from the requirement to have insurance. They don’t have to pay premiums, they don’t have to pay a penalty. Do they still get treatment? They get the same medical care they have always had, courtesy of super-expensive hospital emergency rooms.
The poster then wonders why the need to pick an ethnic group. That’s a good question. It mostly has to do with the fact that in their quest to include almost a dozen languages, Covered California gave Spanish-speakers short shrift. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the languages on the website are NOT ALPHABETICAL, and Spanish is near the end of the list.
Enrollment among Latinos has been very disappointing.
Of course there are certain race-based aspects to the law as well. American Indians and Alaska Natives can switch plans every month and have no co-pays. Why isn’t that available for all?
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