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"The average person, they don't understand how we can spend that much on a website and still not have it work," Gansler said.Effective November 19th, new customers have 3 ways to apply for insurance on the exchange:ġ. Gansler, a gubernatorial candidate who will challenge Brown in the Democratic primary, said he was pleased the governor has taken a leadership role moving the state forward, but that there was mounting public pressure to get the project right soon. Harford County Executive David Craig, a Republican running for governor, said Monday he hasn't seen evidence the site is repaired and questioned whether it ever will be.Īttorney General Douglas F. Among other tasks, the committee would be charged with finding out who knew what and when. While the Maryland Democratic Party sent out an email praising the progress on the exchange, Republican leadership in the State House sent letters to the governor and top legislative leaders, endorsing a special investigation aided by an independent counsel. Total enrollment, including Medicaid, is just shy of 30,000. About 900 consumers enrolled Friday - a record for one day. Nearly 7,500 enrolled in private plans last week, up from more than 5,800 the previous week. The Fallston resident added he was pleased his old back injury did not disqualify him for medical coverage. When I clicked links, I didn't have to wait as long for the pages to load.
With coverage through that program, he will get health coverage for the first time in nearly a year. On Sunday, Myers said he logged on, zipped through and discovered he was eligible for Medicaid. In between comedy gigs, his job as an assistant restaurant manager and his part-time work as a youth sports announcer, Myers, 30, worked on his application, but the Maryland Health Connection was sluggish and froze. Tom Myers, a stand-up comedian who said he works two other jobs to make ends meet, first tried to sign up for insurance after Thanksgiving, but the site was slow and it took hours to set up an account. Others said the website finally began working for them this weekend. "We were not successful at moving people through," she said. Sheila Mackertich, who heads enrollment efforts for HealthCare Access Maryland, said Monday she faced the same problems that have persisted with the site since it launched - frozen screens, enrollment errors and sluggishness. 23, though state officials said they are discussing similar extensions with other carriers. For other insurance plans, the deadline is Dec. That deadline for CareFirst insurance has been extended to Dec. The glitches add frustration to stress, as people rush to get coverage by the first of year. Henry said exchange staff monitor call center tickets daily and are not seeing tickets related to issues previously seen, such as the screen freezing on the enrollment button. And some consumers experienced busy signals Monday when phoning the call center, which happens when lines reach capacity, Henry said. The server was taken down manually and will be fixed. Then a server went down for an hour Monday afternoon, which also might have caused some problems for users, said Dori Henry, a spokeswoman for the exchange. The state site must interface with multiple parties, including insurers and the federal government. On Monday, O'Malley blamed some continued glitches on problems with a federal hub over the weekend, though he added that most people were not affected. Both have said they did not know of the extent of the problems before the site's launch but now get daily updates. Then, two days later, O'Malley said he would meet the self-imposed deadline, and his spokeswoman said that meant by Dec. Last week, Brown declined to say when state officials would complete the nine fixes identified by O'Malley, who set a mid-December deadline to complete them.
Already, state officials have brought on new leadership for the exchange, asking Isabel FitzGerald, secretary of the Maryland Department of Information Technology, to lead the IT effort.
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