Forbes: Obamacare website troubles are meant to weed out healthy middle class

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The technical disasters of the Obamacare exchange debacle over the past two weeks are not an accident, but rather a way to disguise the costs of healthcare plans and weed out people who don’t qualify for a federal subsidy, Forbes reports.

Tech experts examining the Obamacare federal health exchange, Healthcare.gov, are becoming increasingly convinced that the traffic bottlenecks and site crashes experienced over the first two weeks were not by accident, wrote Forbes.

An HHS spokesperson recently told The Wall Street Journal that implementation of a feature enabling users with the option to preview premiums was delayed as a way to filter users.

“An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies,” wrote the publication.

The agency was worried that the spike in healthcare premiums under the new system would scare prospective buyers away, concluded Forbes writer Avik Roy.

The reasoning behind this, said Roy, was because Obamacare was not designed to help healthy people with average incomes.

“It was designed to force those people to pay more for coverage, in order to subsidize insurance for people with incomes near the poverty line, and those with chronic or costly medical conditions,” said Roy.

The Obamacare website’s administrators later added a similar feature to the site last week, but it still fails to give users an adequate picture of what they will really pay – especially if they qualify for a federal subsidy.

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It gets scarier...I am so glad I am not a young person.

I would hate to grow up with so much hopelessness.

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...but rather a way to disguise the costs of healthcare plans and weed out people who don’t qualify for a federal subsidy, Forbes reports.

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That makes absolutely no sense. The whole Zerocare Ponzi scheme relies on these people to pay for the deadbeats. They don;t want to weed them out. They want then to sign up and pay outrageous premiums to cover the high cost of this.

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It gets scarier...I am so glad I am not a young person.

I would hate to grow up with so much hopelessness.

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Forget the death panels. We'll probably end up Soylent Green.

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Forget the death panels. We'll probably end up Soylent Green.

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LOL, I used to chuckle to myself about this title when the revival was mounted at some point
in the late 70s. I thought that it was a rather quaint and misguided notion at the time, now
I think I get what they mean!!!

I say it quite often these days.

I dont buy this either.