Obamacare problems are just starting
By Jennifer Rubin
Washington Post November 5 at 8:45 am
If the government shutdown briefly drove up support for Obamacare, then the experience of Obamacare has driven it down, dramatically so. And unlike the shutdown, there is no immediate end to the ordeal that has soured more Americans on the program.
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In order to rescue himself and his party, the president must accomplish the following in the next few months:
- Make HealthCare.gov fully functional by the promised Nov. 30 date;
- Convince several million people to sign up in the health-care exchanges;
- Convince those who had catastrophic coverage or even higher-cost plans that they are now better off; and
- Make sure that, in all this confusion, there is no gap in coverage for those forced off their old plans.
It’s hard to imagine that all gets done. It’s even harder to imagine that the creators of the nonfunctioning Web site, who claim not to know how many people have signed up, could get this done.
