[Aria]

The proper way to spin it is that day 2 enrollments were up over 4000% over day 1, and at that present trajectory, the entire world should be enrolled by the end of the 8th business day.

Well done! You can get a job with obama if you become truly desperate. :-)

[Hieronymus]

I’m glad that my training in economics was useful—the art of using numbers to produce whatever outcome the people paying the bills want. Fortunately, I write from Canada so I can watch the train wreck with a certain amount of detachment—indeed, I expect that Obamacare may help to solve Canada’s doctor shortage.

The amount of hubris involved in the whole project is truly astounding. Because the healthcare in Canada is provincially based, the largest system (Ontario’s) serves only 13.5 million and has grown organically over the last 40 years, beginning at a population half that size—admittedly a single-payer system is easier to administer, so if Obama received the green light for what he wanted, it wouldn’t be quite as challenging, but there is no evidence that the bureaucracy is up for that challenge, which, given the sheer scale of things, would be immense.