Report: 85% Of ObamaCare Data Errors Can’t Be Fixed, Over 2M Apps Affected

New data released from the Obama administration shows 85 percent of all data errors created during the ObamaCare application process cannot be fixed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told The New York Post that only 425,000 applications with data errors have been fixed out of 2.9 million that were reported by state and the federal exchanges.

“CMS is committed to verifying the eligibility of consumers who apply for enrollment in qualified plans,” the agency said in a statement to PPD. However, according to the administration’s own numbers, over 2.5 million applicants are currently dealing with errors on their applications, and if past performance is any indication of the future, then at least 85 percent will see their coverage jeopardized.

The Health and Human Services inspector general said earlier this week that the administration was unsuccessful in their attempt to fix 2.6 million so-called “inconsistencies” out of a total 2.9 million with data errors created from the federal insurance exchange from October through December 2013.

“The federal marketplace was generally incapable of resolving most inconsistencies,” the report said.

The vast majority of data errors in the federal marketplace involve citizenship and immigration status, even though citizens and legal immigrants are supposedly the only eligible applicants under the law. According to the report, more than 40 percent of the problems involved citizenship and immigration information. Income was the next category, accounting for one-third of the problems. In total, 77 percent of the applications scrutinized by the inspector general were found to have federal records that differed from the data applicants submitted regarding those two qualifications.

Further, even though the mainstream media have focused on rare successes in state-run exchanges, SBMs are dealing with their own disastrous systems that are failing to communicate with insurers and federal marketplaces.

In one such SBM, which was unnamed in the report, infants and young children were “erroneously identified as incarcerated, according to federal data.”