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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

State Switching Health Care Website To Connecticut

Maryland will abandon operating its own health exchange website and adopt technology used in Connecticut.

Isabel Fitzgerald, who heads the Maryland Department of Information Technology made the recommendation Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of the exchange's board.

The exchange's board unanimously approved the move on Tuesday night.

After a six month enrollment period where the website was plagued by technical problems, Fitzgerald says Maryland's current website has "serious architectural problems," and would cost $66-million to fix. She also told the board that there is no guarantee that the website could ever be fixed.
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Connecticut has the best web site in the country, really good move by Maryland.
Now lets start legal proceedings against the company that designed the original one. They literally stole from the state.

Anonymous said...

So much for her leadership.

Anonymous said...

It will cost MD taxpayers at least 130 Million Dollars MORE.

Thanks to O'Malley and Brown.

Anonymous said...

I'm not so sure about that 5:47.
Go to Access Health CT and look at the people complaining how the site kicks you off and other problems. One problem after another.
I'm just curious is any of our local democrat elected officials even bothered to look at the CT FB and voice their concerns to omalley. I doubt it because there isn't one of them worth a GD.

Anonymous said...

At first, we wanted to save money by buying across state lines, but it was taboo because Tort laws were different. So, then, we wanted Tort reform so it would be equal, and allow a free market for health insurance savings. But, no, that was simply an impossibility!

Now, we're FORCED to buy out of state insurance at a jacked up rate covering things you don't need covered with triple pharma deductibles!

Isn't this better?

Vote Democrat more, and this is what you will get.

Anonymous said...

over 100 million wasted by our illustrous leaders, omalley and thestate legislature. good work guys are yougoing to repay the lost money or are you going to try to recover it from the contractor? thanks sjd

Anonymous said...

I'm moving to a Republican state ..less chaos.

Anonymous said...

I wish I could move 718PM. Really don't know what to do now that my house is basically worth so much less than what I paid for it several years ago. My house, if I lived in another area would be so much more but Wicomico County/Salisbury no one wants to buy a house in this area - it's a dying city/county.

Anonymous said...

Advice to 7:32, get out now, take your loss, and enter Greenwood, NC as a top ten upcoming economy, and build yourself up there. Staying here will only guarantee the obvious.

I'm selling out as well.

Anonymous said...

idiot/morons