...2013 MIS - 7650 12/2/2013 2013 MIS - 7650 12/2/2013 Analyzing the HealthCare.gov Debacle Analyzing the HealthCare.gov Debacle Overview On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, putting in place a comprehensive reform designed to improve access to affordable health coverage for American citizens and to protect consumers from abusive insurance company practices (The White House, 2013). To achieve their goal of providing affordable health care to citizens worldwide, the government set up a Health Insurance Marketplace, also known as Healthcare.gov. Under the law, the online marketplace was to act as a centralized portal in which millions of uninsured Americans would have the ability to compare prices and shop for a variety of quality, affordable plans that best met their health care needs (Lee, 2013). In order for the marketplace to be successful, it needed to carry out a slew of tasks including: verify a person’s identity, legal residence, and income; check eligibility status; calculate subsidy; and allow enrollment (Carmody, 2013). In addition, the site would have to interact with a large number of databases operated by various federal and state agencies. Therefore, the website needed to be interfaced with various entities including IRS, Social Security Administrations, and the Department of Homeland Security and credit bureaus (Carmody, 2013). The government assigned Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
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...Administrative Ethics As a healthcare administrator, protecting the privacy of patient information is a primary concern, and many organizations have taken additional security measure to protect their patients. With the advancement of technology follows the growing concern of ethical and legal dilemmas. There are several important issues, which are involved when it comes to an individual’s personal information and you add technology. With the Affordable Care Act just around the corner and millions of Americans scrabble to meet the deadlines to gain healthcare, raises the question are Americans information protect on the HealthCare.gov website. Americans are concerned with privacy issues and the government possible using their information. We will review an article related to privacy concerns over personal information submitted on the Obama Care website, determine what issues and the impact on population it affect most. We will explore the arguments and the facts that are used in the article to support the proposed solution. We will examine the ethical and legal issues reported, and explain the managerial responsible related to administrative issue. In addition, we will identify any proposed solutions to the allocations. As the world of technology grows with everything we need at our fingertips, from our tables, smart-phones, and laptops this leave us open to the arising challenges of legal and ethical issues. Technology has eased its way as becoming a part of American...
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...Running Head: Healthcare.gov: Management Nightmare Healthcare.gov: Management Nightmare John Kincaid Webster University Abstract For many Americans the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, represents a chance to purchase health care that they were otherwise unable to attain. For many more it represents the US Government mandating that they must have health insurance or face increasing fines for not doing so. Whatever the basis is for one’s preference for national health care coverage, the fact remains that the face of Obamacare, Healthcare.gov, failed spectacularly when it was launched late last year. A paltry percentage of people were able to actually use the website as intended with most not being able to choose from the offerings, much less even log into the site. While there are many reasons why the launch failed and many more speculations, this paper is intended to look at the procurement and vendor management processes that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid utilized when procuring services from commercial entities. The inherent failure of these processes and the structure that allows a large project to proceed without directly assigning responsibility will also be looked at. Introduction On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. The law’s intent is to provide health insurance coverage to millions of uninsured Americans through new private insurance marketplaces...
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...Washington (CNN) -- It was the government's fault, contractors on the problem-plagued website for President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms told a congressional hearing on Thursday. In more than four hours of testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, officials of companies hired to create the HealthCare.gov website cited a lack of testing on the full system and last-minute changes by the federal agency overseeing the online enrollment system. Angry exchanges between Republicans who oppose Obamacare and Democrats defending it erupted repeatedly, while the contractors insisted their work went fine even though the software buckled when the system went online on October 1. Complaints about logging in, lengthy delays, incorrect information relayed to insurance companies and other problems have fueled continued GOP attacks on the 2010 Affordable Care Act that was upheld by the Supreme Court last year. The White House and administration officials say the enrollment problems are being fixed. On Thursday, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) that oversees the new programs under the health care reforms said almost 700,000 applications have been submitted online on either the federal or state websites. State success in Obamacare program While the applications don't mean that many people have fully enrolled for health insurance under the new system, the figure represents a significant increase in those who have been able to start the process...
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...the system. Whether it be that some cases are just too complicated for the website to handle, or that the website itself has issues which is not allowing people to progress through the necessary steps to get health-care coverage. The story did not give alternative perspectives, or world views, it is a one sided story. There was many questionable assumptions within the article. The assumption was that 80% or 1 in 5 people will have complications with signing up, those numbers would clearly be different depending on which agency the information was gather from. Officials had many months to get the Healthcare.gov website up and running yet it had been proven it has failed at the start of the program which did not allow people to sign up in a clear and timely matter. The website should have been tested with a soft opening so that the issues could be worked out long before the actual launch. This would have given officials time to make the necessary corrections to the website. It’s important to remain clear minded, unbiased and focus on the facts, when critical evaluating any written work even a simple story as the one that is simply discussed here. Getting a full understanding of any story means reading the full story and making judgment only after all facts have been considered. If the same story was on television or the radio I do not see where there would be a difference. The headline “The Goal: for 80% to enroll via Health-care website” gives the reader a solid idea of the contents...
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...Introduction Healthcare.gov is a website which was designed for the people to get insurance for themselves. The government of federal United States operates it. It is passed under the act of Patient Protection and affordable Care act which is most probably known as the Obama care. The goal behind the launch of this website was to serve as an online portal for the Obama’s act. The main goal of the government was to provide insurance to people with the subsidized rates and it had a vision to provide insurance to the maximum number of people. The website was a place to get Healthcare insurance at a very minimized rate for the people who have low incomes less than four time the poverty line. The research by the government shows that there are 48 Million people who are uninsured. The Exchange was started on October 1 2013 and the target was to provide insurance to all the 48 Million. The Website was designed in such a way that use to help people shop different insurance plans and to check the eligibility for the subsidized rates of healthcare. The Reason for the Crisis The plan was ready and launched on the date same as promised on 1st October 2013. But after the launch the website had many problems. As soon as the website was launched with no time it was crashed. The server was too slow and was not able to connect the website. The site was made with he perspective of 50000 to 60000 people visiting it in a day but the no reached to 2.2million.The customer service...
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...North America Equity Research 06 January 2014 2014 Global Biotech Outlook Differentiated Growth, Advancing Pipelines Should Drive Outperformance; Conf Call at 11am ET Today The biotech sector had a stellar 2013 (NBI: +65%; S&P: +29%) driven by strong demand for the sector’s key products, many positive phase 3 studies and a wave of successful IPOs. Looking to 2014, we think the fundamental backdrop is very similar with 1) beatable revenue growth expectations (2014e: +16% vs. 2012/2013: +12%) including several high-profile drug launches, 2) many pivotal studies set to read out and 3) a stable/favorable regulatory and reimbursement environment. Notably, these factors should continue to make biotech attractive to generalist investors, who played a major role in the 2013 outperformance. Our bias is to stick with large caps as well as mid-caps with approved products; revenue/EPS/cash flow forecasts for 2015 and beyond look broadly beatable, in our view. In contrast, we suspect that “pure pipeline” or tech platform small caps could be more volatile in 2014. We continue to believe that the biotech industry is in the early innings of an innovation cycle with many labelexpansion opportunities and novel agents in phase 2 or 3 trials that are largely unaccounted for in Street models. Hence, we are bullish on the group for 2014. Please join us for a call today at 11am ET to discuss our sector outlook/favorite names (US dial-in: 888-889-1309; OUS: 773-756-0161; Passcode: BIOTECH). Large-cap...
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... Barack Obama Barack Obama Biography U.S. Representative, U.S. President, Lawyer (1961–) Early Life Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Great Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii. Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama Sr. met fellow student Ann Dunham, and they married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later. Obama did not have a relationship with his father as a child. When his son was still an infant, Obama Sr. relocated to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University, pursuing a Ph.D. Barack's parents officially separated several months later and ultimately divorced in March 1964, when their son was 2. In 1965, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya...
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