healthcare.gov has been online for nearly a month now and only 50,000 citizens have signed up for private health care through the website. The faults with the website have no doubt caused this number to be lower than the 500,000 that the administration expected.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579192190709762378?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6
Do you see this as an example of typical government inefficiency, or just some bad luck? Do you think the goal they set would have been reached with these problems or is part of the reason that this number is so low a result of people not buying into the system? Do you think this rocky start have a lasting effect on obamacare?
I think people definitely are not buying into this system and I feel like we all knew this would happen.
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DeleteI also think that part of this low turn out is due to efforts like the Koch brothers and other ultra conservatives who have campaigned against the act from the start. There is a lot of ambiguity about the legislation itself.
ReplyDeleteI think it is extremely hard to come to conclusion at this point, considering some technical faults with the website. Yes, there is a lot of apprehension about the legislation, but I would not go so far to call it a failure.
ReplyDeleteFrom the beginning, people have been skeptical in regards to how many people would initially enroll. Technical malfunctions aside, many believe that the penalty associated with the individual mandate is simply not large enough. It will be interesting to see what happens once the technological kinks are worked out.
ReplyDeleteI feel this was bound to happen, the low turnout. I dont think they expected it to be this drastically though compared to what they wanted and I'm sure the website failure did not help the situation either
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mike.
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