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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama completly insulated from feedback on potential ACA rollout problems
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-is-bubble-wrapped/2013/11/05/8779997a-465b-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_print.htmlIn one account of what even administration officials acknowledge is a debacle, the Wall Street Journal reported that Obamas policy advisers were aware long ago that the presidents promise that if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it wouldnt hold up. White House policy advisers objected to the breadth of Mr. Obamas keep your plan promise, the Journal reported, citing a former senior administration official. They were overruled by political aides, the former official said. The White House said it was unaware of the objections.
No, the Obamacare pratfall is not Obamas Iraq: The magnitude is entirely different, and the problems Web site malfunctions and a wave of policy cancellations are fixable. But the decision-making is disturbingly similar: In both cases, insular administrations, staffed by loyalists and obsessed with secrecy, participated in group-think and let the president hear only what they thought he wanted to hear.
In a damning account of the Obamacare implementation, my Post colleagues Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin described how Obama rejected pleas from outside experts and even some of his own advisers to bring in people with the expertise to handle the mammoth task; he instead left the project in the care of in-house loyalists. Three and a half years later, such insularity in that decision and others that would follow has emerged as a central factor in the disastrous rollout, Goldstein and Eilperin reported.
Their report is based in part on a prescient memo sent to the White House in May 2010 by Harvard professor David Cutler, an outside adviser on health-care reform. I am concerned that the personnel and processes you have in place are not up to the task, and that health reform will be unsuccessful as a result, he wrote. My general view is that the early implementation efforts are far short of what it will take to implement reform successfully. .?.?. I do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the presidents vision or have the capability to carry it out.
Cutler identified many of the problems that would later plague the Obamacare rollout: The perception of secrecy, the lack of qualified personnel and the likelihood that if you cannot find a way to work with hesitant states and insurers, reform will blow up.
Instead, Obama followed a different governing philosophy: Dance with the one that brung ya. He figured that those who helped him enact the health-care law should be the ones to implement it.
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Obama completly insulated from feedback on potential ACA rollout problems (Original Post)
eridani
Nov 2013
OP
Welp, just goes to show you are NOWHERE as Prez without good honest advisors who can
TwilightGardener
Nov 2013
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)1. Welp, just goes to show you are NOWHERE as Prez without good honest advisors who can
tell you bad news and keep you up to date on progress and problems. Whoever advised him (and/or was the main point of contact between HHS and the WH) did him a disservice.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)2. Bad move, Obama. You just look like a fool (nt)
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)3. LOL! How transparent.
Response to KittyWampus (Reply #3)
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Jakes Progress
(11,168 posts)5. Your post was correct with only the first three words
of your title.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)6. Indeed
Must be nice to live in his world. #nosenseofreality
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)7. Obama's Iraq??? How effed up is that? Comparing the debacle of illegally invading and slaughtering
hundreds of millions, costs in the billions, killed thousands of our own young people and threw families into disarray, can't afford to put the injured back to work stateside ... compared to (non public) health insurance for all?
Someone nailed it earlier ... like trying to build a house in a war zone.
Cretins.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)8. "No, the Obamacare pratfall is not Obama’s Iraq." (n/t)
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)9. "effed up" is a perjorative for " Obama's Iraq". Bad. Not. True.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)10. The search for Obama's Iraq continues.