HealthCare.gov Users Contacted to Try Again

If at first you don't succeed ... (and second, third, fourth, et cetera)

About 275,000 people who tried and failed to sign up for Obamacare health plans are being asked by the U.S. government to return to the website as the software flaws that initially shut them out are being corrected.

People are being contacted this week in a "series of e-mails in waves" to avoid too many getting on the website at the same time, Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, told reporters today on a conference call. Additional people who weren't able to complete applications on the insurance exchange will be solicited later.

"We want to make sure we are inviting individuals to come back into the system and that their experience will be a positive one," Bataille said.

Comments

[Sevo]

"People are being contacted this week in a "series of e-mails in waves" to avoid too many getting on the website at the same time,"

Yeah, that'll work. One at a time, times 30 million people, let's see, carry the one...

[JWatts]

They will need all of those 275,000 and a whole lot more (in the millions) to sign up in the next 5 weeks to get anywhere close to the original expected enrollment by the end of the year.

At this point, it's looking increasing likely that the US will have millions more uninsured individuals at the start of next year than we had on October 1st.