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In reply to the discussion: @ezraklein: Big deal:backroom connection between insurance companies and Feds is a disaster [View all]Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)6. hahaha. you've been pwnd. the Ezra Klein tweet links to an article giving historical perspective
using Medicare Part D passed under Bush. It was a program that should have been ENORMOUSLY popular among the people it was aimed at (elderly Medicare recipients) but it was wildly unpopular out of the gate with lots of glitches, slow enrollment, etc.
So............past is prologue. They got past it. It was a program that now no one would think of killing. And it is working other than the donut hole of coverage that was filled by Obamacare.
Nice try. not really.
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@ezraklein: Big deal:backroom connection between insurance companies and Feds is a disaster [View all]
dkf
Oct 2013
OP
Misleading - This is not from Ezra Klein, but from a RW. He completes it just by an other tweet.
Mass
Oct 2013
#1
Well the post speaks specifically of the 36 states that declined to create their own exchanges.
dkf
Oct 2013
#20
hahaha. you've been pwnd. the Ezra Klein tweet links to an article giving historical perspective
Pretzel_Warrior
Oct 2013
#6
Even better. When I clicked on your actual link...BLOGSPOT?? give me a fucking break lady
Pretzel_Warrior
Oct 2013
#14
October should be beta testing month with real enrollments starting in November. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2013
#9
I just hope there aren't any people that think they have health insurance but their applications
PoliticAverse
Oct 2013
#19
I think it's too early to actually sign up both from a technical software perspective and because
PoliticAverse
Oct 2013
#22
It's starting to seem that their Computer/Online Roll Out..done by Private Contractor
KoKo
Oct 2013
#24
Washington Post: Federal health exchange sending confusing enrollment information to insurers
PoliticAverse
Oct 2013
#29