NBC晚间新闻 奥巴马医保申请必须搞清网上申请手续

Obamacare applications must maneuver¹ online maze²

奥巴马医保申请必须搞清网上申请手续

Regardless of whether people apply for insurance in person, over the phone or on paper, everyone’s information must be entered into the same portal. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports.

不管人们是本人前往申请，通过电话申请还是填表申请保险，都必须将每个人的信息输入到同一个门户网站。NBC的Peter Alexander报道。

The White House tonight says they have made a lot of progress over this past weekend fixing the obamacare website, but the sign-up page which has been plagued with problems from the start will go offline now every day from 1:00 to 5:00 in the morning eastern time while that so-called tech surge team works to get it right. Also tonight it is becoming clear the problems with the website cannot be avoided by applying on the phone or in person as the president has been suggesting. More tonight from NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander.

reporter: In miami today Christina is one of thousands of navigators helping⁴ Americans sign up for health insurance offline.

In the beginning it was working but with glitches⁵. Now it's just down. Now the paper application is what we are doing.

reporter: That's what president Obama has urged consumers to do -- bypass the website and apply for insurance the old fashioned way like he did tonight.

They can still apply for coverage⁶ by phone, by mail, in person. There was a time when the Internet didn't exist.

reporter: But internal Obama administration memos⁸ showed that won't solve the problem. Because the same portal is used to determine eligibility⁹ no matter how the application is submitted -- paper or online. One memo⁷ reads the paper applications allow people to feel like they are moving forward in the process and provides another option. At the end of the day, we are all stuck in the same queue. Today the White House insisted frustrated¹⁰ consumers can turn to navigators to complete applications for them.

We have never said the end point of the process wouldn't have to go through healthcare.gov.

reporter: That means your personal information still has to maneuver a complex online maze. First the website must be accessed. Then all personal data has to be registered and verified. Next the system must determine eligibility for government subsidies¹¹. That information lets consumers shop for a plan. When you finally choose a policy, all that data must be trance lated into a different format³ that the insurance companies can read.

This program will crumble¹² if you don't find ways in which to deal with the fundamental challenge right now.

reporter: Tonight even Democratic allies are calling for a time-out.

That meaning

shutting this program down for 60, 90, 120 days. I'd much rather see that and the political fallout way may endure because of that than a program that just limps along over the next several months.

reporter: Health policy axperts say the enrollment¹³ information sent to insurance companies is still badly flawed. As for the internal memos about applying offline, tonight an administration official says they are notes, not official meeting minutes and they are several weeks old before they say significant progress to the website was made.

1 maneuver   

n.策略[pl.]演习；v.(巧妙)控制；用策略

参考例句：

• All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.在军事演习后，所有战斗机都安全降落在机场上。
• I did get her attention with this maneuver.我用这个策略确实引起了她的注意。

2 maze   

n.迷宫，八阵图，混乱，迷惑

参考例句：

• He found his way through the complex maze of corridors.他穿过了迷宮一样的走廊。
• She was lost in the maze for several hours.一连几小时，她的头脑处于一片糊涂状态。

3 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 glitches   

n.小过失，差错( glitch的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Manufacturing glitches have limited the factory's output. 生产中的故障影响了该厂的产量。 来自辞典例句
• Another kind of period variation,\"Glitches,\" are seen in several pulsars. 在几个脉冲星中还看到了周期的另一种变化，即“自转突快”现象。 来自辞典例句

6 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

7 memo   

n.照会，备忘录；便笺；通知书；规章

参考例句：

• Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗？
• Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗？

8 memos   

n.备忘录( memo的名词复数 )；（美）内部通知

参考例句：

• Big shots get their dander up and memos start flying. 大人物们怒火中烧，备忘录四下乱飞。 来自辞典例句
• There was a pile of mail, memos and telephone messages on his desk. 他的办公桌上堆满着信件、备忘录和电话通知。 来自辞典例句

9 eligibility   

n.合格，资格

参考例句：

• What are the eligibility requirements? 病人被选参加试验的要求是什么？ 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
• Eligibility for HINARI access is based on gross national income (GNI). 进入HINARI获取计划是依据国民总收入来评定的。

10 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 subsidies   

n.补贴，津贴，补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
• Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 crumble   

vi.碎裂，崩溃；vt.弄碎，摧毁

参考例句：

• Opposition more or less crumbled away.反对势力差不多都瓦解了。
• Even if the seas go dry and rocks crumble,my will will remain firm.纵然海枯石烂，意志永不动摇。

13 enrollment   

n.注册或登记的人数；登记

参考例句：

• You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
• I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。