On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Obamacare gives huge subsidies to private health insurance corporations. > The Administration insisted from the beginning that potential enrollees > be quoted their price after subsidy. The full price paid to insurers was > to be buried in tiny type. This was a fundamental political decision. It > led to the problem of the Web portal. The site cannot quote an > after-subsidy price until it collects your "private" income, family and > other data, farms it out for verification to several independent > computer systems including the IRS and private credit bureau Experian, > and receives replies. This is the process that broke the front end of > the portal. > I don't understand why everyone thinks there is some "fundamental contradiction" here as opposed to a garden variety IT project screw up. These things happen. Riddle me this: if it is fundamentally impossible to have a functioning website, how come the state exchanges are working so much better: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/opinion/krugman-california-here-we-come.html It seems to me that the progressive left opponents of Obamacare are almost as deluded as the Tea party nuts. -raghu.
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