Howdy, y'all! Just got back from Texas where by the way, Sen. Ted Cruz is regarded by people as the greatest things since sliced bread, not a raving lunatic.
As we have previously noted, the alleged "glitches" and "kinks" in the Obamacare website are serious design and programming malfunctions. It is going to take a long time to fix them. Press Secretary Jay Carney offered a tip off when he said that people would not be penalized if they were not able to register in time. True to his style in running "the most transparent administration", the President feigned shock and anger at the systemic problems although it is widely known that he has been aware of the seriousness of the issues for quite a while.
It is almost comical how poorly the system was designed. Clearly the the users were forced to register so that the IRS link could verify their income. In this way when they looked at at their monthly premiums they could see if the cost was reduced by any subsidies to prevent sticker shock. Absurd. Any beginning programmer could have created a matrix by which users could have browsed without registering to see what their net costs would be after subsidies. But when the government gets involved you clearly see the less than spectacular results.
If the government does not fix this in a big hurry so that people, particularly young healthy people can sign up, then the program will effectively defund itself because there won't be sufficient revenue to cover all of the costs. Lord only knows what kid of a budget battle this wil trigger. Don't kid yourselves, there is a reason why they are not releasing the number of people who have signed up.
If the Republicans had a brain between them, they simply would have sat back, got out the beer and the popcorn and let the system implode as it is doing. No amount of White House spin is going to fix this.
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