Healthcare.gov’s Negative Fallout Spreading to Insurers

by Austin Petersen

Insurers redirecting resources to deal with problems generated by data

Health care insurers are complaining that the data generated from Healthcare.gov is so convoluted that it’s hampering their efforts to handle even the small trickle of people actually registering.

The technological problems are spreading out beyond just the buggy website. Insurance companies are reportedly receiving duplicate sign ups, missing data, and plenty of fishy registrations that need to be investigated.

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Blue Cross & Blue Shield are being forced to hire new workers in order to solve all the problems generated by the incoherent data they must process. Medical Mutual of Ohio reportedly had just one single customer actually sign up for its plans successfully.

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These types of problems can do near-permanent damage to private insurance companies, who have to shift crucial resources away from actually helping people and dealing with the flawed government healthcare systems.

“The longer this takes to resolve . . . the harder it will be to get people to [come back and] sign up,” said Aetna Inc. 

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.