Posted on 12/02/2013 11:12:06 AM PST by Kaslin
David Plouffe, former Obama senior adviser and ABC News contributor says Obamacare Will ‘Work Really Well’ By 2017
Former Obama senior adviser and ABC News contributor David Plouffe said on “This Week” Sunday that the Affordable Care Act will “work really well” when all states run their own health care exchanges and fully expand Medicaid – actions that may not be seen until President Obama is out of office in 2017.
“This program was designed to be implemented by the states. And in most of the states that are running their exchanges it’s going quite well,” Plouffe told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “You talked about Medicaid expansion. I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well then.”
Work "really well" for who? If Plouffe means the average (and shrinking) middle-class worker, he is out of his mind.
Website "Unstable" but Fixed for Vast Majority (Defined as 80%)
ABC News reports White House Declares Obamacare Website Fixed, But Problems Persist
Two months after the troubled launch of its signature health care initiative, the Obama administration on Sunday announced that its online insurance marketplace now functions smoothly for the “vast majority” of consumers seeking to shop for and enroll in coverage.
Today “is not a magic moment but a process of continual improvement over time,” said Julie Bataille, communications director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the website.
The report identifies as root causes of the problems ”hundreds of software bugs, insufficient hardware and infrastructure.” It says technical teams have implemented 400 fixes, with more than 300 coming online in the last three weeks.
“We now believe the HealthCare.gov site works for the vast majority of users,” Bataille said. The administration has defined “vast majority” as 80 percent of consumers looking to enroll online.
Still, significant problems persist with the system.
The report implies that the website continues to experience unscheduled outages at least 5 percent of the time, and officials signaled that there are still concerns about slow-downs during high traffic periods.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius advised consumers in a blog post Saturday to visit the site at off-peak times — mornings, nights and weekends — to avoid delays and potential congestion. Officials said today they are not yet ready to begin aggressively summoning people to the site until it’s demonstrated to be stable.
From passing to working great only 7 years ,WOW what a government
Many victims of Obamacare will be dead by then.
The commie libs like to say that ObamaCare is going to be “very, very popular” some day. LOL!
“trust me”
“Or triple your Constitution back! I guarantee it!”
2017! - well, the revolution will be over by then and probably 50% of the US population utterly destroyed...so, I guess that statement may have some truth to it! Then again, Obamacare is the law of the “US” land — the one taking over may have something to say about that...joyful thoughts!!!
That is about when all those in Congress who forced this pile of poop on the American people will be retired.
It was rushed through on Christmas Eve because it was soooo urgent. So 9 years later = urgent?
We were sucked into WWII and then won it in less time than these wet-ends have needed to completely wrap the rear axle of implementation of this act in barbed wire.
So, they assured us they would have it straightened out by .... yesterday.
Now they say they only need seven more years.
This has gone from risibility to farce.
Shut this down, Congress! Repeal the act, restore the health insurance of those damaged—get off your azzes and do something, you worthless PsOS!
As soon as one woe is past, they line up another.
Prayers for the continued success and undetection of internal saboteurs. There surely must be a few God-fearing souls working in the belly of the beast to save our Republic. The incompetence is really over-the-top even for government work. But who would know, government is the king of fail. An impenetrable wall of plausible deniability, ready-made. :)
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