House panel to attack O-Care application problems

A House subcommittee will turn its attention back to ObamaCare next week with a hearing on the millions of inconsistencies in applications for exchange coverage.

The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will host high-ranking federal health officials to discuss problems that still plague the process of determining tax subsidies under the law.

{mosads}The committee said its witnesses would come from the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general’s office (HHS OIG), which has released several in-depth reports on the problem.

“Sadly, nine months after launch, broken promises and technological glitches continue to define the president’s healthcare law,” said Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.), the subcommittee chairman, in a statement.

“The extent of the administration’s malpractice in launching the exchange without a complete back-end system is beyond belief.”

House Republicans have spent less time focusing on the healthcare law since the spring, when the administration announced that more than 8 million people had joined the exchanges.

The GOP is still hoping ObamaCare will serve to turn out its base in November, even as the issue recedes from headlines.