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Health insurance exchange website security gets a boost

October 12, 2015October 11, 2015 G. Turner

The Obama administration has responded to criticisms from civil liberties advocates with strengthened protection. Following criticism that the Obama administration has received from civil liberties advocates, it has now stated that it will be strengthening the security of its health insurance exchange website, just as a new open enrollment period is about to begin. The page will now feature a new “privacy manager” that will offer users additional control. According to a blog post by Kevin Counihan, the CEO of HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance exchange website, the site will…

Massachusetts insurance exchange contractor gets the boot

March 21, 2014March 18, 2014 G. Turner

The state has announced that it will be cutting off its relationship with CGI as a result of the website’s serious problems. The Massachusetts insurance exchange, Health Connector, is now cutting off its relationship with CGI, the technology vendor behind the marketplace’s website, in light of the disastrous performance that the site has maintained since it was updated to comply with the requirements of the federal health care reform. The state has now entered into negotiations regarding the transition process with a new contractor. According to a special assistant to…

Massachusetts health insurance backlog progress is being made

February 25, 2014February 22, 2014 H. Cutner

Officials in the state have said that there tremendously backed up application processing is making headway. Massachusetts health insurance officials have now reported that progress is being made in overcoming the huge backlog that the application processing has been facing in the state since the latest phase of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. The backlog is the most immediate struggle that the state has been facing with the health care reform. Legislators have been going over all of the various issues that the Massachusetts Health Connector site users…

Federal health insurance exchange website experiences shutdown over critical weekend

December 2, 2013November 30, 2013 Julie Campbell

Federal Health Insurance Exchange website problems

The HealthCare.gov site went down for a considerable amount of time on Saturday morning. Only hours before the deadline imposed by the Obama administration, itself, for having the federal health insurance exchange website up and running for the “vast majority” of the people who want to use, it the site went down for a huge amount of time early in the morning on Saturday. The official report said that the site was being taken down deliberately for 11 hours. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took the federal health…

California health insurance exchange shows healthy growth

November 18, 2013November 16, 2013 S.Vagus

State-run health insurance exchanges are faring better than their federal counterparts Throughout the U.S., relatively few people have enrolled in state-based health insurance exchanges. The majority of these exchanges are managed by the federal government, with only 12 states opting to run their own exchanges. Technical problems with the federal exchange network have kept many people from enrolling in exchanges properly, which is one of the reasons behind low enrollment numbers. States managing their own exchanges, however, have fared better in terms of enrollment, as is the case in California.…