WaPo:
Most Americans say the rocky start for HealthCare.gov is a harbinger of bigger problems for the Affordable Care Act, according to results of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
A man looks over the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this October 2, 2013 photo illustration. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Fifty-six percent of Americans say the website problems are part of a broader problem with the law’s implementation while just 40 percent see the website problems as an isolated incident. Reaction to federal insurance exchange website are deeply rooted in partisanship. More than eight in 10 Republicans say website troubles are a sign of broader implementation problems, while most Democrats call it an isolated incident. Independents resemble the public overall, with 55 percent seeing broader problems with implementation.
President Obama is clearly aware of that conflation and the dangers it presents for the law. “We did not wage this long and contentious battle just around a website,” he said at a speech Monday at the White House.
The bungled rollout has not soured support for the health law overall, however. Forty six percent now support it while 49 percent oppose it. That compares favorably to a 42 to 52 percent negative split last month. Support has rebounded since July among moderate and conservative Democrats, while Republican opposition has also softened. Criticism of the law is varied, with one in five opponents saying it doesn’t go far enough rather than saying it goes too far in changing the system.
Fewer than half of Americans have supported the law ever since its passage but the desire for repealing it altogether is even lower. One-third of the public, 33 percent, doesn’t support the law and wants to repeal it, while 20 percent are not supporters but want to “let the health care law go ahead and see how it works.” Hard-core opposition rests mainly among Republicans, 69 percent of whom oppose the law and 60 percent who say it should be repealed. That compares with a third of independents who want to repeal it and 10 percent of Democrats.
The website is the bridge into the system. Unfortunately it’s engineering contract was exported to a foreign company with a very poor track record, in order to obfuscate how the bridge would be built. The company used obsolete and inadequate technology. The bridge was never properly tested to determine if it could handle the load. The planners also made it a covered bridge in order to protect it’s tracks from the light of day, yet it was never calculated if the bridge could handle the added weight of the covering. The whole project ended up to be many time more expensive than even worse case estimates. Only now that train loads of riders have discovered that the bridge can’t handle the weight, and train wrecks are happening daily, are some of the project’s advertisers realizing that with the bridge being out, this may end up to be a disaster. The moguls who designed the bridge are now telling us that they expected some failures and inconveniences, and assure us that the bridge is theoretically sound and that eventually the train wrecks will stop once enough people buy tickets.
And yet, we haven’t even arrived at the gigantic, incomprehensibly complicated train-yard complex that these same aloof speculators and shills designed, marketed and sold to the government, without allowing any of their financial backers or even experienced inspectors view the planswhich are even now still being redrawn in dark rooms by employees with little to no railroad experience, while industry experts beat on the door to try to inform and enlighten these amateurs on the flaws in the system.
We can therefore only expect that more terrible disasters will occur on down the line.
When Jay Carney was asked how the IRS could fine people who can’t get signed up due to issues with the system, he refused to answer.
They NEED those penalties.
Of those who do sign up, what proportion are PAYING customers vs what proportion are freeloaders?
That’s a very important issue, too.
THEY NEED THOSE PENALTY SAID CARNEY
NO ONE SHOULD NEED PENALTY, THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS,
THE LEADER ONLY THINK OF PUNISH AND PENALTY
MEANING GIMME MONEY,
FOR THIS GIMME MONEY FOR THAT, like a tribute ask by the MUSLIMS countries, yes it has an influence of their mindset,
which will never work in AMERICA
with the proud AMERICANS, THE BRAVEST WHO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THIS NATION DON’T NEED THAT KIND OF PENALTY,
THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO SUCK MONEY FROM THE PEOPLE
WHO PAY THEIR TAX, AND PAY THIS ABUSIVE LEADER
NO ONE SHOULD PAY A PENALTY, TO NO ONE,
WHERE IS THE HIGHEST COURT JUDGES, THIS IS STILL AMERICA WHERE THE FREEDOM IS PRIORITY,
NO MATTER WHAT OBAMA TELL YOU, HIS WORK IS TO SERVE
ALL THE PEOPLE YOU PEOPLE,
HE CANNOT FORCE YOU TO PAY OR TAKE ANY OF THIS,
BY DECREE
ON THE NAME OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE BILL OF RIGHT
AND THE COMMERCE CLAUSE, WRTTEN BY THE FRAMERS CENTURIES AGO AT THE BEGINING OF THIS USA,
HELL THE PEOPLE ARE WORKING HALF TIME, THEY CANNOT AFFORD THAT ASTRONOMICAL PRICE,
YOU WANT TO EXTORT THE LAST PENNY THEY HAVE WORK HARD FOR, YOU KNOW THIS IS EXTORTION,
I never knew there were so many stupid people in this country.