To: tejek who wrote (793726 ) 7/5/2014 1:34:24 PM From: jlallen Respond to Truth Buried — Again Bias: You'd think that a government audit showing how ObamaCare couldn't tell whether millions of enrollees were eligible for the subsidies they're getting would be front-page news. Instead, the press hid it from view. If you wanted to read in the New York Times about these findings — which detailed rampant problems verifying eligibility and income information from millions of ObamaCare applicants — you had to dig 17 pages into the news section. In the Washington Post, the story was on page 11, after stop-the-press-stories like a change in House travel reporting rules and a puff piece on the new VA administrator. If you relied on the network news, you'd be completely in the dark. Basically, the reports revealed widespread and systemic failure to prevent costly mistakes, like enrolling people who aren't citizens, or paying too much in subsidies. The IG found, for example, that the ObamaCare "data hub" — which was supposed to instantly verify an applicants' income, citizenship status, employer coverage and other key data by searching existing federal databases — routinely failed to do so. When it wasn't suffering outages, the hub's data were often "not current or accurate." In one case cited by the IG, it listed some infants and children as being in jail. These failures are far worse than the disastrous launch of the ObamaCare exchanges last fall, which garnered lots of media attention but were later "fixed." Those failures only made it hard for people to sign up. news.investors.com
