[AnAmericanInEngland]

“The system wasn’t really built to handle this kind of glut of new patients,”

The system can't handle the glut of patients? So, if all Americans purchased insurance, without obamacre being implemented, the system wold only handle some of them? Or, maybe the system was screwed to start with, if a net addition of a couple million new healthcare insurance subscribers is overloading the system. Best healthcare system in the world?

[autumnraine]

Its about new policies. Most (before) were renewals and not much processing. Millions of new policies at once would surely overwhelm the system .

[Drew68]

Or, maybe the system was screwed to start with, if a net addition of a couple million new healthcare insurance subscribers is overloading the system. Best healthcare system in the world?

The idea was that a bunch of young, healthy people would buy Obamacare and then not need to use it because, well, they're young and healthy.