Obamacare: The payment portion of the healthcare website has not even been set up yet

  Yesterday Henry Chao testified in front of the Congress on the failed Obamacare website roll out and he made a stunning admission when asked how much of the system has been finished. Here is what he had to say:

“I think it’s, uh, just an approximation, we’re probably sitting somewhere between 60 and 70 percent, because we still have to build the systems–”

  In the interest of fairness it is quite possible that he was clumsily trying to say that 60-70% of the website was completed, but still, that is an unbelievable number considering the Federal government spent over $600 to build this website and the part of the site which is completed is already not working. The government has been forced to work on fixes to the portion of the website which is up and running and most of the site still is not even ready for prime time.

  His excuse for the incomplete system is even more stunning then the revelation he was trying to defend:

“Because we still have to build the payment systems to make payments to issuers in January.”

  People who have actually managed to navigate their way through the site and enroll in Obamacare are expected to make their first payments in January and here we have Henry Chao admitting that the payment system has not even been set up yet? If it took 3 years to create roughly 30-40% of the system how long will it take to set up the payment portion? And if you are one of the paltry few who actually enrolled in Obamacare will you still have coverage if you are unable to make your scheduled payment?

  This is grossly incompetent and these people are going to be running our healthcare system before all is said and done? Now that is a scary thought…..