Posted on 11/08/2013 1:08:42 PM PST by Kaslin
If you want to know why Democratic Senators appear to be panicking over Obamacare, it is probably because the White House has not been able to convince them that HealthCare.gov will be up and running as promised by November 30.
And President Obama's HealthCare.gov surge czar Jeffrey Zients did nothing to calm that panic Friday on a conference call with reporters. Reuters reports:
The Obama administration's HealthCare.gov adviser Jeffrey Zeints said on Friday that the trouble-plagued federal healthcare website is improving, but that higher volumes of visitors are exposing new capacity and software issues.
In a conference call with reporters, Zeints said progress this week has been marred by roadblocks. He described HealthCare.gov as being "a long way from where it needs to be."
The administration is struggling to resolve problems with the website by the end of November, when it has pledged to have the system operating smoothly for the vast number of users including uninsured people interested in obtaining subsidized private health insurance.
As we've previously reported, Zients initial November 30 deadline seemed overly ambitious when it was given almost a month ago. So if Zients is discovering new problems as he fixes the ones he already identified, that makes it highly unlikely he will meet his original timetable.
And if Obama fails to get HealthCare.gov up and running by November 30, there is no telling what Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2014 might do.
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) has already agreed to co-sponsor legislation with Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) that would force insurance companies to un-cancel all the millions of insurance policies Obamacare already killed.
But this would only make the current high prices on the Obamacare exchanges even worse. The whole reason people are seeing their old policies cancelled, and replace with more expensive option with less benefits, is because Obamacare needs the healthy people with insurance now to help pay for the sick people who will be gaining insurance through Obamacare.
The reality there simply is no way to fix Obamacare even if the website gets fixed.
“I’m shocked!”, said nobody.
OH! He did tell the Truth.
It will be up and running by November 30th. He Just didn’t say of what year.
Another czar. How quaint.
From the same outfit that had ten years to build a gun registry website in Canada and couldn’t pull it off.
Take the failure and give the points.
Mary Landrieu is deeply saddened.
The pubbies should just let this thing auger in. No more money wasted on this fiasco. Let the dems own this till the next elections and beyond.
And in other news, the manager of the Cubs hinted that the Cubs might not win the pennant.
The “tech surge” failing?
The new progressive battalion commanders from Google and Oracle not inspiring the trenches?
This must be like the 404 th Czar for this regime.
We better double down on the $194 million that was already spent. I say...a billion! Any takers?
Obama is a genius and is never wrong. And he would especially never lie to get past an election.
czars, just a make work program for Friends Of Obama ,lots of pay with zero work
We are in the second month of Obamacare and it is already exceeding my expectations!! Just today it was reported that D.C. alone has managed to enroll 5, that’s FIVE folks into this wonderful system. Yet, only 4.2M people have had their insurance dropped.
At this rate, Obamacare enrollment for the D.C. area, could climb to a record breaking 10 by Christmas.
This is exciting…..darn, I think I just fainted!!!
I said in early October that it would take months just to do a complete code review, let alone fix anything.
They’re just making it worse.
” I think I just fainted!!!”
You mistyped... I don’t know how you typed “in” instead of “r”, but you did...
Why do so many of Obama’s czars look like the guys who used to model mens underwear in the old Sears catalogs?
That too. ;>)
Its the Cloward-Piven strategy again only this time with your health AND your money.
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