Rank Amateurs

“Rank” as in “the lyin’ sack o’ sh*ts REEK TO HIGH HEAVEN“.

‘So much wrong’: Aetna CEO blasts Obamacare tech debacle

Aetna’s CEO gave a harshly critical review Monday of the federal government’s Obamacare marketplace, saying, “There’s so much wrong, you just don’t know what’s broken until you get a lot more of it fixed.”

Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” if he knew that the rollout of Healthcare.gov would be problematic, the insurer’s CEO, Mark Bertolini, said his giant company’s role as an alpha tester for the system gave it a sense of how many problems the health insurance marketplace faced on the eve of its launch.

“We were pretty nervous as we got further along,” Bertolini said. “As they started missing deadlines, we were pretty convinced it was going to be a difficult launch.”

His fears have been realized, he said, and the technological debacle seen at Healthcare.gov is one similar to just the handful he’s witnessed in his career.

“It’s nothing you ever like to repeat,” Bertolini said. “Because it’s very difficult. I’ve been there. It’s career-ending in a lot of cases.”

‘On the fly’

“It’s all been on the fly,” Bertolini said of the construction of the marketplace and the integration of insurers such as Aetna, whose plans are being offered to up 40 million customers.

“We didn’t get code drops until the last month before the system went live,” he said

Of course, EVERY WORD he out of his mouth can be discounted because he is an EE-VILLE INSURANCE personage, who can only be expected to speak ill of the Abominable Care Act.

Anecdotally. Of course.

categories Makes Ya Barf, Nanny State, People, Politics | | datetime October 14, 2013 3:22 pm

5 Responses to “Rank Amateurs”

  1. JeffS says:
    October 14, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    Whoa. That’s not “harshly critical”, that’s brutal. And long overdue.

  2. kcruella101 says:
    October 14, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    That’s my boss, and he has always been brutally honest

  3. Kcruella101 says:
    October 14, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    That’s my boss and he is always brutally honest

  4. Syd B. says:
    October 15, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Isn’t everything about the Obama admin just like the Healthcare technology?

    Unfathomable cost and no functionality.

  5. Mark says:
    October 15, 2013 at 11:47 am

    Audits in 3…2…1

    If I were an Aetna shareholder I’d worry about all of the scrutiny Aetna is about to get…

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