Why I'm pissed, and why you should be, too.

[bvar22]

43. They SHOULD have gotten the rollout right.

They had the time, money and people to make this run smoothly.
The excuses for the failure of this website...the official unveiling of the ACA....
are beyond pathetic.

Somewhere, Somebody who is making the Big Bucks is responsible.
HEADS SHOULD BE ROLLING.
Instead of apologizing to Republicans, the "somebody(s)" should be falling on their swords or publicly "dismissed". Rewarding incompetence only breeds more incompetence.

$328MILLION/ 3 YEARS, and counting for a website that doesn't work,
OUTSOURCED to a CANADIAN Tech Firm whose only claim to fame was that it was fired for fucking up Canada's health care site..... what could go wrong?
Has anybody in the Obama Administration heard the pleas for Buying American
or that JOBS is the TOP PRIORITY?
...especially when spending OUR money?


And the Website is the EASY part.
The HARD part will come in 2014 when sick & injured people start trying to access Health Care with their new policies. I PRAY somewhere in the Democratic Party someone was smart enough to provide for a smooth functioning, American Staffed Customer Service department to:

*help people access their Health CARE with their new Health Insurance

*explain WHY people STILL have to pay when seeing a doctor

*take complaints

*advocate FOR the People when they feel the Insurance Companies have treated them unfairly

*Most Importantly,
I PRAY that there is a wickedly fast Oversight Agency that can quickly ENFORCE the new Regulations , including an army of accountants watching the Insurance Corps BOOKS with a microscope to enforce the new Medical Cost ratios.

Everybody knows that regulation without enforcement and penalties is no regulation at all.
(SEE: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform)

"Oh. That is ALL up to the individual states" will not be an acceptable excuse for the American People.
If the rest of the ACA implementation goes anything like the Website,
then we are headed for some dark times.


They could have, and SHOULD have gotten the Website RIGHT.
This is a bad omen,
and there is no acceptable excuse for this failure.

Will is right.
The Democratic party is the Party of Government Works,
and HealthCare.Gov is a glaring black eye for the "Government Works" Party.

DURec.
---bvar22