I saw this article in the Politico:
key player in the Obamacare website’s creation acknowledged Tuesday that up to 40 percent of IT systems supporting the exchange still need to be built.
“It’s not that it’s not working,” Chao told lawmakers at an Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing. “It’s still being developed and tested.”Financial management tools remain unfinished, he said, particularly the process that will deliver payments to insurers.
A Health and Human Services source said the health plans can receive the payments consumers make when they enroll. The system isn’t yet ready to deliver federal subsidies to insurers.
First, Politico undercuts its own lede. The financial segment is not live in the production environment but it never was scheduled to be live until December. The first subsidy was not scheduled to be sent to the insurance companies until late December if everything works correctly. More importantly, this is not a system failure point as most insurers could get by for a while without Federal subsidy flows.