The Rocket Scientists Who Designed the ObamaCare Website Forgot The Whole Payment Part

◼ As unbelievable as it sounds, word now comes that the beleaguered ObamaCare website doesn’t have a payment mechanism. And Fox’s Megyn Kelly, for one, isn’t happy about it. In fact, she’s downright ticked off. - Michael Miller/IJ Review

◼ MEGYN KELLY LOSES IT OVER HUGE NEW OBAMACARE PROBLEM: ‘THAT’S YOUR MONEY!’ - Jason Howerton/The Blaze

“You’re touting this improved Healthcare.gov,... How does the system work without a payment mechanism? There is no cash register!”

◼ Which liberal pundit’s credibility will be the last to die for the Obamacare mistake? - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion

◼ Short-term fix eyed for another problem with U.S. healthcare website - Reuters

President Barack Obama's administration has found a short-term fix to pay insurance companies for plans selected on HealthCare.gov, the not-yet-complete government website used to shop for insurance required under Obama's healthcare program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has not yet finished building the part of the website that would transfer billions of dollars in subsidies for plan premiums and cost-sharing payments to insurance companies.

It is part of a long technical to-do list that has so far focused on fixing the errors and lag times in the part of the website used by consumers.

◼ Administration to insurance companies: Just guess what your subsidy should be, and the taxpayers will cut you a check. - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o

This must be very confusing to the Obama faithful, because just yesterday Dear Leader was telling them how insurance companies are a bunch of crooks who overcharged them for “bad apple” insurance plans, which ObamaCare mercifully destroyed, replacing them with more expensive, higher-deductible plans that provide vitally needed maternity services for men. It was only a few weeks ago that President Obama gave his infamous “Fumble” press conference, in which he pointed fingers of blame at insurance companies for the millions of canceled policies that have sparked public outrage. (As of yesterday, he was back to dismissing those people as irrelevant “anecdotes” whose ruined lives are a small price to pay for the Great Leap Forward.)

...Smaller providers and co-ops will be hit especially hard… and would be much less capable of making do without their subsidy payments for six months, a year, or however long it takes the people who can’t even launch a website to create the subsidy calculation system.

Isn’t Soviet-style central planning wonderful?