Blue Cross North Carolina Confirms There Is Just One ObamaCare Enrollee & They Haven’t Even Paid Yet

It’s been more than a month since ObamaCare first went live, and in North Carolina, the state’s largest insurer is still reporting that only one person has enrolled for their health insurance through the exchange.

Because of glitches in the website, that person hasn’t even paid yet.

In fact, the IT infrastructure is apparently so bad that Blue Cross has made a decision to not even upload data from the exchange to its own servers to prevent false data from gumming the works.

Meanwhile, less than 1,000 people have even taken the first step of filling out applications.

From WNCN:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – It’s been one month since the rollout of Obamacare, but problems persist as Healthcare.gov is still struggling to stay online.

The public’s problems in trying to deal with the troubled Health Insurance Marketplace website aren’t the only problems plaguing the system. WNCN Investigates learned the state’s largest insurer has experienced a number of problems with the system

Blue Cross Blue Shield has more than 3.7 million customers in our state, but internal emails obtained by WNCN show that as of last Friday, only one person had enrolled for health insurance through the Exchange and that person hasn’t paid.

Without payment, enrollment means nothing because the customer is still not officially in the system.

Part of that payment issue may come from the government’s technical problems. Blue Cross Blue Shield emails indicate the “payment re-direct option” on the government servers isn’t working.

In fact, the government’s whole system is so plagued that emails say BCBS made a “business decision to refrain from uploading data” to prevent false data from entering its system.

Meanwhile, people are not embracing BCBS’s marketplace. According to those emails, less than 1,000 people even filled out applications as of Oct. 25.