The NY Times reports that upgrades to the 'glitchy' Healthcare.fail website are not uniformly helpful. This is a laugher:
Insurers reported two weeks ago that they were receiving multiple enrollments and cancellations for the same person. To address this concern, the government put a time stamp on each transaction, so insurers would know which one occurred last.
Timestamps! This is breakthrough stuff! But wait...
But the stamp shows the time the files were sent to insurers, and the government sends all the files at the same time once a day, so multiple transactions are shown as having occurred at precisely the same moment. In these cases, insurers said, it is hard to tell whether a consumer meant to enroll or to cancel an enrollment.
Ms. Bataille, the spokeswoman for HealthCare.gov, said, “We are actively working on” the issues.
Maybe loop in a random number generator...