JAMES TARANTO: Another ‘Glitch:’ But don’t worry, ObamaCare is running smoothly.
The story in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer begins reassuringly: “Nearly six months after the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov, with the website running smoothly and more than five million people signed up as open enrollment heads to a close . . .”
But it turns out that’s just disclamatory throat-clearing. Here’s the rest of the paragraph: “. . . a new glitch has come to light: Incorrect poverty-level guidelines are automatically telling what could be tens of thousands of eligible people they do not qualify for subsidized insurance.”
Reporter Don Sapatkin writes that he and his colleagues discovered the error “while running scores of income scenarios through Healthcare.gov”–the sort of testing you’d think the developers would have conducted long before the launch last Oct. 1. The story observes that the finding “again raises questions about the site’s accuracy.”
It seems to us the Inquirer doesn’t give itself nearly enough credit. Its investigation doesn’t raise questions, it answers them.
Related: “Bizarre new enrollment procedure” at Cover Oregon exchange.