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12. It will take more than 2 weeks for people to be less irritated.
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:09 PM
Nov 2013

I live in MA, the state that should have had no problem.

Guess what, some genius decided that everybody who was already on the exchange has to re-register, provide all the information once again, and told people to do that 2 months before the deadline. Guess what. The website is overloaded and crashes. So my husband will fill the 38 paper pages so that they can be received in time to be sure he will still be insured in January.

And, as I said, this is the state that has the least problems. We already had extended Medicaid and an exchange that was running. So, I do not want to imagine how it is in states that had nothing.

So, let's be clear. If people like me, who were 100 % behind the exchange once it became clear this was the best we would get, are irritated, imagine what people who were already on the fence must feel like.

It will take more than 2 weeks to solve this. Of course, the GOP will help by its stupidity, but it would be nice if something was done to help people.

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Quinnipiac was voted worst pollsters of 2012. JaneyVee Nov 2013 #1
+1 Tarheel_Dem Nov 2013 #5
Pew and Gallup show the same thing. Skip Intro Nov 2013 #7
Need I remind you of "unskewed polls"? We know how well that sort of thought worked for Mittens n/t ReverendDeuce Nov 2013 #11
54% disapproval means a lot of people who voted FOR you, now disapprove. Scuba Nov 2013 #2
Yep... WillyT Nov 2013 #4
The President's approval will rebound when the ACA website fix is finished in two bluestate10 Nov 2013 #6
Two Weeks ??? WillyT Nov 2013 #8
It will take more than 2 weeks for people to be less irritated. Mass Nov 2013 #12
No one has mentioned that. I think that's incredible that Massachusetts Romney Care KoKo Nov 2013 #16
Yes. Commonwealth care closes and people have to re-register to the new exchange. Mass Nov 2013 #18
or could it be FirstLight Nov 2013 #17
Yes, people ARE sick of not being represented, of the protection, and WORSE, the rewarding sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #23
+1 woo me with science Nov 2013 #22
And yet, it's due to the screw-up of a well-intended effort to provide health coverage TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #3
We didn't have the press lying and bashing everything either of those president's did either. Obama okaawhatever Nov 2013 #10
Racism plays a role, it's hard to say how much--but what that racism does is TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #13
Seems to me this is a self-inflicted crisis. Mass Nov 2013 #9
Your last sentence pretty much sums it up for me too..... socialist_n_TN Nov 2013 #14
LOL ... When Pres. Obama's numbers improve, polls good. 1000words Nov 2013 #15
K&R Enough of the looting. woo me with science Nov 2013 #19
Get Americans to dislike the government ... reduce turnout ... and give the GOP a chance. JoePhilly Nov 2013 #20
Luckily Obama isn't up for re-election. ProSense Nov 2013 #21
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