Watching the Sunday morning talk shows, it is striking how Democrats and members of the Obama administration are spinning the disastrous launch of the healthcare marketplace exchanges as glitches that they had anticipated.
They didn’t anticipate this. If they had, they would’ve told people a week before not to bother to sign up right away. It is unbelievable what a crappy job they did to get these things ready.
If I were Pres. Obama, I would be furious. How hard is it to set up a website? What do they mean, they didn’t expect millions of people to sign up? Why not? When you know that millions of people are uninsured, and then you open a website that purports to solve that problem, what do you think is going to happen?
Over 8 million people attempted to sign up for healthcare this week, but we have no idea how many of them succeeded. Probably fewer than a few hundred thousand. I wonder, how many people will just simply throw up their hands and decide to pay the $75 fine next year? I wouldn’t be surprised if as many as 1 million Americans decide to go uninsured because they were unable to get anywhere this week. Studies have shown that people get discouraged very easily online. People tend to leave a website if they can’t load it up within five seconds or less.
And that is completely Obama’s fault. What an idiot. Maybe if he spent a little bit less money droning Muslims and a little bit more money on his top legislative priority…
Isn’t surprising that they can’t hit the right people with drones. Maybe the Republicans are right when they say government can’t do anything right.