Sorry I've just got to say it.....A Public Option would have avoided most of this crap

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85. Even if there were a public option, the website still would not work. <- in it's present form, such

as it is, that's true.

But if there were a public option, more like Medicare, it wouldn't have needed to be so complex perhaps. Because we are signing up people on Medicare in freakin' droves while all this is going on - the numbers are 10 times or more from what I have seen.

As far as that last point in your post, however, if those with hi-deductible insurance had been left alone, there would have been a few thousand who wanted to be obstinate and pay more for less, but they wouldn't have had THIS to blame for their troubles. It wouldn't have made a nickels worth of difference in the overall economics of the bigger plan, as opposed to the cost of all this hoohaw, to just leave them alone and publicize the crap out of the benefits of the new law.

By the time the next year rolled around (which we may well see before the current web disaster gets a passing grade), a few more of them would have left their plans, and the insurance companies would raise prices on the remainder and tell them it's because of Obamacare. But the insurance cos in the exchange would be running ads saying "If YOUR INSURANCE CO isn't giving you the value you deserve, WE can", maybe with some funny old guy swinging around a dollar on a fishing pole. That would take all the wind out of their sails.

But we are where we are.

And while all this is going on, good jobs are still being replaced with crappy ones, and perfectly healthy people able to work are increasing the numbers of those not in the work force. sigh... our priorities are screwed up.