... and most old ones, too, HealthCare.gov will continue to be tuned, improved, protected. Anyone involved in such improvement will be subject to House committee interrogation for trying to cover up the "fact" that it was not ready on 12/1.

Republicans will stay on this like a dog on a bone. It's another Benghazi to be brought up again and again through 2014 and 2016 election cycles.

So even if it's fixed, it ain't fixed. Not in Repub eyes.



I hope it stands up to the coming TeaBagger Denial-of-Service attacks. Kochs can afford some pretty good hackers.

"al Kocha"?

dust.

thanks babylonsistah!

When you run full-time on "the website debacle," you don't leave yourself much to work with once the site is fixed.

had plenty of dripping disdain and sarcasm in his voice and tone this morning for all of the right including himself. his arrogance is beyond bowing down and dishing out some respect for folks who are applying.

The sight or sound of Cokie Roberts makes me literally sick to my stomach.

When Cokie reported on the "Bush Charm Offensive."

She said Bush would get things done in DC because of his charm.

I thought, "What the Hell? Is this a 'news story'?"

Oh, and he liked to give out nicknames, too!

On edit: And more Americans wanted to have a beer with George than with Al.

talking about the POTUS. Ugh..... she comes on, I turn the channel. Ugh....

both of which reveal she feels uncomfortable with what she is saying.

Surely, they can find one person in 10,000 or so who experienced a glitch somewhere on the site, and continue to trumpet the "failure."

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CNN is still questioning whether it will work or not by the deadline and if it will drive the President's approval ratings down EVEN FURTHER!! GASP!!

How does that work exactly? If the companies working on it screw up or sabotage it the media are quick to blame the President and try to drive his approval numbers down? Nice! How about laying the blame where it belongs--with those companies?

Another demonstrative reason to just turn those fuckers off. Why spend a single moment giving attention to people willing to deceive us and prevent us from getting something as basic as health care. Psychopaths all of them.

how it's going to be impossible to get enough young people to sign up to make sure the ACA can pay for itself.

Then, the next thing they will give their attention to will be . . . (Wait till I check with Fox News).

She was telling the truth.

Kochs $$$$$$ Heritage Foundation $$$$$$ Americans for Prosperity $$$$$$ Bob Perry (huge donator to repuke governors association and financed the Swiftboat attacks on Kerry) $$$$$$ Rupert Murdoch $$$$$$$

And a host of other riech wing billionaires and their foundations....

Is what she called it, and she was ridiculed for stating the obvious truth.

A very disturbing fact.

...and pulling strings behind-the-scene to distort news reports and bend the political system against
The People is not a Conspiracy.


But 3 Liberals having a beer together--That's a Conspiracy!

You're exactly right. Nailed it!!!

People will enjoy the benefits and it will become as popular as SS and Medicare

Not that there will be any brains splattered around, though.

Can't splatter something that doesn't exist.

Not even the Wizard could give any of this bunch a brain.

Of the Pugs $25 billion dollar shutdown fiasco over repealing the damned thing.

what will the media talk about next?:

the media and the rethuglicons couldn't even begin to figure out what the truth is. Of course, the teabaggers don't want to know the truth anyway.

His legs are in a wide stance.

They want the business in the health exchanges. At that point it is game over for those lying repukes.

Now they can move on to whining about the site for "small business".

the ball in the end zone. Republicans and the Media are unethical bastards who are always looking for what is wrong, never the myriad of things that are right or damned near perfect - they are nothing but a bunch of fucking losers.

negative against the ACA

No matter how successful the ACA, the media will do everything in their power to try and derail it.

But they're idiots, so.....

Or does this number not include Medicaid expansion? I thought there was going to be 30 Million more insured?

So you expect one million people to be registered per day?



How many decades have people been waiting for this?

And you expect it to be resolved in one month?

but at this rate it would take 100 years (at 100,000 a month from now on, it would take 25 years to hit that 30 million mark). I'm just wondering if the numbers in this article include the expansion figures. And yes i recognize more would be helped/enrolled if the Supremes hadn't given States the opt out.

Honestly i don't really have any "expectations" about this law. I think it will help us get closer to Honest Healthcare in this country, at least i hope it will.

The growth will not be a flat climb up. There will be a steep spike and expotential growth based on the Massachusetts example upon which this plan is based.
And yes, I agree, this is a big first step towards universal health care.

any chance you might have a link? I live in MA and have been relatively happy with the system here. I was not here when they implemented "Romneycare", but as i understand it also suffered from a rocky start and only after some adjustments did it become generally accepted. I did follow the OP link to the original article and it stated they estimate the number to have signed up by Feb? 2014 to be over 1 million, but they were hoping to have as much as 7 mil signed on by then. So that at least is far better than the "current rate". Anyway, keeping my fingers crossed that the ACA doesn't see any more "setbacks". Cheers.

nt

Can anyone show me a website still operating on V 1.0?

Even DU is up to 3 major renovations.

I think the Repubs are operating with a 14K modem!

The expense hype. ACA will be more expensive for some people (at first)....but that is compared to the junk policy premiums prior to ACA. Many people just don't understand that they had crap, so insurance companies could be generous with cheap premiums. The right wing media and GOP are going to exploit these increases as much as possible. They are already claiming people can't afford the new plans (especially those who don't qualify for subsidies). But, if insurance companies have out priced their consumer market with the new ACA plans, they will be adjusting their prices. There is going to be a lot of competition come 2014.

By BRETT NORMAN and JENNIFER HABERKORN
12/1/13

The Obama administration said Sunday that it achieved its goal of making HealthCare.gov work for the “vast majority” of users after the disastrous start of enrollment in the president’s signature health law.

The Obamacare website will be able to support more than 800,000 consumers per day, the administration said. And the site is now online more than 90 percent of the time, not including scheduled downtime for maintenance.

These are huge improvements for a site that was up an average of 43 percent of the time in October, crashing frequently, spewing error messages, thwarting millions of people who tried to visit it.

“The bottom line: HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1st is night and day from where it was on Oct. 1st,” Jeff Zients, the management expert steering the repair mission, told reporters Sunday morning.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/obamacare-website-update-100494.html

They didn't say what they are.

You can't access the ACA when you enter a California zip.

who said it couldn't be fixed.

Outside of the US can also mean rigged.

"The ACA could be the crowning gem of Barack Obama’s presidential legacy."

It's a piece of crap patched together legislation that gave far too much to the GOP in exchange for votes that never materialized. It was way over-compromised and is based on a system created by the Heritage Foundation, which puts ideology before intelligence.

Still, it is a decent piece of legislative work and is the first step towards a single payer solution.

The next step is to demonstrate how utterly useless the insurance companies are in provide health care when there's a perfectly acceptable alternative that's cheaper and provides better service for the amount of money spent: either the Medicare program or an extension of the VA program to all citizens.

Time marches on and the health insurance industry will be the 21st century's horse and buggy industry.

Every single time I click on a link to them I get popups and other garbage. What is this, 1998?

I don't know how we're supposed to be expected to trust the journalistic ability of an organization that, when it comes to web design, puts their pants over their heads when they wake up every morning.

posted by sheshe2

"Have you seen Time Magazines new cover? I just saw it at the checkout."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024121166


Time = FAIL!

which is what the media owe the people

(You think Time will put out an issue in the next couple of months saying "We blew it" on the cover?)

biased. useless.

I have started using Sarah's term 'lame stream press' in some instances. Really people, there is a world out there.

Europe is a great place to live these days. I am too old for the language challenges, but they speak English in lots of big cities.