Wait, you mean mistakes were made? There were problems? And the website was subsequently fixed and served to help millions of uninsured get health care?
Stop the presses! Government screwed up something, and then fixed that something!
They fixed the front end. The website remains defective and unfinished:
The website is late because the administration failed to perform even the most basic oversight of the project.
That article is from May – got anything more recent? And whatever the problems, it’s still helped millions of uninsured get insurance.
I know you’re obsessed with finding any scraps that might make the ACA look bad. It’s okay, adaher. It’s okay. The ACA is doing pretty well. It’s okay. You’ll be okay. Even if the ACA continues to be a success, and meets all its goals in time, you’ll still be okay. America will still be okay.
It’s okay, adaher. You’re okay. America is okay. Even if the ACA continues to work, everything will be okay. You don’t have be obsess any longer. It will be okay.
The ACA website is more for the “Stupid Liberal Implementation of the Day” thread.
You’re surprised that “liberal Dopers” are supposedly surprised by this story, before you’ve even given anyone a chance to respond? That surprises me.
Well, no it doesn’t.
Anyway, why on earth would you profess to be upset if the administration didn’t handle the launch of the ACA portal perfectly? Isn’t failure what you actually want?
Adaher’s absolutely right. I have yet to see Obama handle a massive screw up by telling the dude responsible he’s doing “a heckuva job.”
Eh, I’ll give him that one. The implementation was a major cock-up. You’d think it would behoove the powers-that-be to stay somewhat on top of their major policy achievement.
The federal government has a long history of screwing up big IT projects independent of which party is in power. The ACA website is relatively successful in that it did get fixed soon enough to let them beat the signup goal. Lots got abandoned at gigantic costs.
As for ACA in general a report just released for California (our website worked) shows that over half the uninsured now have insurance and 1/3 of the remaining uninsured are undocumented and not eligible.
I suspect he’s complaining because he doesn’t want to admit it worked. I wonder if he is still complaining about Apple Maps also.
It still doesn’t work. But that’s not the point. The government screwed up because the guy at the top wasn’t engaged. Sure, he does fine once he is engaged. The website got fixed well enough. Which should tell him that maybe he should be getting involved when problems start, not when they get so bad that whistleblowers start contacting the media because the lines of communication within the administrative branch aren’t working.
Shit, all that constitutional law stuff, and he can’t even fix a damn website and database?
Yes it does. Millions are using it to get insurance. There may still be capabilities it lacks, but that is different than it “doesn’t work”.
If you don’t want to be called out on such wrongness, be more precise.
Nope, the GOP remains the most obstructionist in modern history.
I still think the space time continuum reacts with malice to the say so’s of adaher.
He’s lucky. The things* I *think are going to happen usually do.
That’s funny. I found a pic of you typing this response to me.
Did you have to hire a consultant from the elementary school for that one?
And there’s you in the second panel!
Meth. Not even once.
The fact that they cannot come to an agreement in a very short time says nothing about obstruction. Immigration is a very contentious issue and it will take time to make a deal. They didn’t have the time, so it didn’t get done.
As a Hispanic that knows what House republicans are doing for several years regarding immigration, I have to tell you that you are not fooling anyone, even you do know that that pee is not rain.
You’re right. It’s entirely possible that the GOP just started working on this last week.