Compiled and summarized for AAPS members by The Market Institute.
The President’s comments on how good of a deal the Affordable Care Act do not stand up to scrutiny. The healthcare law does not help the millions of Americans losing their current health insurance and right now, there is no reliable exchange to sign up for new coverage (The Foundry Blog).
The Republican National Committee Chariman Reince Priebus called out the President on the so called “tech surge” that is underway to try and remedy Healthcare.gov arguing it will be more likely to be a spending surge (Press Release).
IT debacles are nothing new to federal government agencies and the implementation of Healthcare.gov is no exception (NextGov).
While the President was confident the website glitches will be fixed and Americans will be able to seamlessly enroll for health insurance, state government are starting to get concerned that the requisite number of people will actually enroll to make the exchanges work (Kaiser Health News).
Despite issues with the design and implentation of Healthcare.gov, the entire process could have been much worse (The New Yorker).
