The technical problem could affect tens of thousands of Medicaid
applicants and represents the latest issue to arise in the rollout of a
website that's been plagued with long waits for users and other
glitches.
Some users who fill out applications on the federal site may believe
that they're already being enrolled in Medicaid or that state officials
will contact them, even though the agencies aren't receiving the
information they need, said Matt Salo, executive director of the
National Association of Medicaid Directors. The data transfer problem is
occurring in the 36 states where the federal site is deployed,
regardless of whether they chose to expand Medicaid.
"Essentially, if you're a consumer on healthcare.gov, it will tell you
you're eligible for Medicaid and the state agency will take care of it,
but there's no real way for the state Medicaid agency to know anything
about it," said Salo, who leads the nonpartisan membership group for
state Medicaid chiefs.
Allow my to show you what a room full of Glitches looks like, add in incompetent nut jobs as well.
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