Obama culpa, Obama culpa, Obama maxima culpa
- Thread starter Big Money
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The recent debacle over HealthCare.govs' rollout may have narrowed whatever perceived advantages Democratic candidates may have had over Republican opponents.
Obama acknowledged that the problems with the law have made it tough for Democrats who supported it.
Among the 39 Democrats who voted with the GOP to delay a key health-care provision was Rep. Bruce Braley (Iowa), a reliably liberal vote for much of Obamas' agenda in his first term.
Braley is the consensus Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — a seat that Democrats have held for 33 of the past 39 years.
Braley represents a district that the president won by 14 percentage points and he wants to represent a state Obama won twice but, as evidenced by his vote Friday, Braley has begun to put some political distance between himself and the president.
Amy Booth, 52, is a Democrat, and she called the health insurance rollout “a big disappointment.”
“From an administration that was so high-tech during their campaign with data mining and such, it’s surprising that a Web site they build is a complete mess,” she said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-care-law-has-changed-game-for-democrats-looking-to-2014-election/2013/11/16/71d8e5fa-4e65-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story_1.html
As many as one in five Americans who want to buy health-care plans through the new federal insurance marketplace may be unable to sign up online even if the Obama administration meets a Nov. 30 deadline for fixing the Web site.
Whether the government meets the benchmark — and whether the public regards it as adequate — will be a central factor in Obamas' efforts to increase support for the controversial health-care law and lure customers to the federal insurance marketplace.
The goal is that 80 percent of people going to HealthCare.gov should manage to enroll electronically, but that means that many others, perhaps that tens of thousands, will be unable to do so.
Even if the site works well that doesn’t mean that the site will be sufficient for 100 percent of users or consumers to use for enrollment.
The uncertainty over the site’s future performance stems from the fact that it currently is malfunctioning when more than 20,000 to 30,000 people — about half the intended capacity — try to use it at the same time.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/healthcaregov-goal-80-percent-able-to-enroll-for-insurance-through-web-site/2013/11/16/04fa02a2-4e1a-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story_1.html