The first point is that to some degree the problems with the website have been caused by the overly complicated design of Obamacare itself. Instead of being a simple, universal program like Social Security or Medicare, the Affordable Care Act system is designed as if to illustrate Steven Teles’ notion of “kludgeocracy” or needless, counterproductive complexity in public policy.
By using means-testing to vary subsidies among individuals and by trying to match individuals with private insurance companies, the ACA requires far more information about people who try to sign up than do simpler public programs like Social Security and Medicare. If Congress had passed Medicare for All, the left’s preferred simple, universal alternative to the kludgeocratic ACA mess, signing up would have been a lot easier and the potential for website snafus correspondingly less.
Konczal’s second point is even more important — the worst features of Obamacare are the very features that conservatives want to impose on all federal social policy: means-testing, a major role for the states, and subsidies to private providers instead of direct public provision of health or retirement benefits. This is not surprising, because Obamacare’s models are right-wing models — the Heritage Foundation’s healthcare plan in the 1990s and Mitt Romney’s “Romneycare” in Massachusetts.
do they really know what they re fighting or are they just told what not why they seem to argue with their own strategies only because it's not them promoting it now, and if these were mostly republican ideas are they damning their own brain trust by trying to kill them with vitriol you don't use when talking about your baby.
Romney did all he could to disassociate his plan from ObamaCares, but we all know what a terrible liar he is. it's true they were for all these things until Pres. embraced them, that kinda looks poorly on them to deny the validity of their own creation simply because the Black guy with big ears in the WH is and has done things they either couldn't or did not want to. now they don't want to discuss and seek better methods to implement they want to completely obliterate any trace of it, that i call fanatical hide and seek, or denial of health care to Americans
