Don't be fooled by Fox News and right wing talk radio accounts of what a failure Obamacare is proving to be. Yes, there are glitches in being able to gain access to the websites.
But the glitches are not so much the fault of the program but due to the huge volumes of traffic -- literally millions of people trying to log on for information and application for the plans.
The problems are a measure of the success of Obamacare, not of failure.
That is exactly what has the Republicans so terrified -- Obamacare is going to prove popular -- which will prove to the people that Republicans have been lying to them about how awful a program it is.
Even promoters of the program have been surprised at the interest shown thus far. There's no cause for alarm. Any such new program is going to have glitches, just as the Medicare Part D coverage of prescription drugs did under George W. Bush's administration -- and that is now a widely popular program.
All will get ironed out with a little time -- which the program has. The enrollment period extends for several months, and coverage doesn't begin until next March anyway. So there's no rush. It's going to work -- and we'll wonder why anybody ever opposed it.
Ralph
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