Just shared on Facebook. It ought to rile up my Republican friends.

So I'll bet it's in lots of local newspapers. The Register has been less RW lately. The owners prolly see the handwriting on the wall...

"There will be bugs and problems"

No one ever seems to understand the complexity of rolling out electronic systems, databases of any new software. You can only test so much and there are always scenarios that cannot be tested for.

I am confronted with this every time I roll-out a new program or update a database. They users throw a fit when one little thing goes wrong or there is system downtime in the early stages of the release.

Again: "There will be bugs and problems"

where you can upload the latest music album. These transactions are extremely complex.

All I can point to is the ease with which I enrolled in SS/Medicare. But I called a toll free number (this was 9 years ago). My call was answered quickly and handled knowledgeably by a well trained enroller. I was dreading a long, drawn out wait and lots of stumbling blocks on the way. I was delighted with the experience, tho!

How dare you???

another snip>

As the date for Medicare's formal beginning approached, more serious problems cropped up. The most serious was a campaign by many doctors to boycott the program. In the months leading up to the final legislative debates, and after, the American Medical Association faced a revolt in its ranks over the issue, though it reluctantly endorsed cooperation. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, organized to combat “socialized medicine,” came out against the law, urging “nonparticipation.” The organization predicted that 50,000 doctors nationwide would refuse to play ball.

Most doctors didn't end up boycotting Medicare. The real threat came from elsewhere. Because Medicare involved federal aid to the states, participating institutions had to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination. Hospitals in the South, which segregated patients by race, initially refused to comply with the law. As conflicts between hospital administrators and the federal government intensified, the president of the Louisiana Hospital Association put the matter bluntly: “It’s the requirement that Negroes and whites be permitted to share the same hospital room,” he warned. “I don’t know what the hospitals will do but I hear that some of them don’t see how they can comply.”

Some hospitals didn’t: when Medicare began on July 1, 1966, large swaths of the hospital system in the South remained segregated. Despite appeals by President Lyndon Johnson on television and radio, three-fourths of the hospitals in Mississippi couldn't accept Medicare patients when the program went into effect. Entire cities in the region -- Selma, Alabama, and Macon, Georgia -- had no hospitals eligible for Medicare.

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about all the problems this is either having, causing and will cause, I roll my eyes and ignore most of it.

I'm not ignoring that there were and probably will be problems. But name me one thing ever created by humans that from day one was perfect, nothing was wrong even the tiny stuff, everyone loved it from the first second. There isn't any example of that, so why are people excepting this to roll out 100% spot on. It was an unrealistic thought to think it would happen. Yes it could have been better but it wasn't the worst roll out of something.

One other thing about the ACA like most things in the world, you either be part of the problem or part of the solution. I tend to lean toward finding solutions not just complaining about the problem over and over and over.

Good OP it does prove we have been here before and it did not destroy the world, whew.

I'm old enough to remember the early days of the space program. I remember those rockets at Cape Canaveral with hundreds of cameras on them, sputtering spectacularly on the launching pad. BIG fail! People thought the whole idea of space travel, esp. in the days leading up to the early suborbital flights, was ridiculous and a stupid waste of money and time!

Nowadays, folks take their cell phones for granted and don't realize all the work done by NASA in the launching of satellite technology...