Monterey, CA New Medi-Cal Enrollees Left In The Lurch Because Of A Computer Glitch

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Much has been written about the problems with the new government web site which has enabled millions of people to sign up for health insurance.  The government reported that they have been unable to process 183,396 applications from people who signed up on the healthcare.gov web site.  The problem is, this site is to sign up for private insurance, but these 183,396 people realized while they were signing up for insurance that they were eligible for Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California).  The Federal government has been unable to figure out how to transfer these applications to the individual states to that they can process the people for enrollment.  They have given "interim files" to the states, but the information is not enough to get the applications completed.  Government officials are now saying that if they were to have to comb through all of these files to get complete information, it would take time away from other important efforts.  What a sad situation.

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