Suppose the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation
spent half a billion dollars on a web site that has been up and running for two weeks and crashes nearly every time a customer tried to use it and didn't work any better after is was taken offline for a weekend to be fixed. That CEO would be out of a job. But Barack the Terrible and his terrible web site soldier on even though it's patently obvious to even the low-information Americans that Obamacare is already worse than everyone predicted. It's gotten so bad that the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelious and Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
barely got 100 people to show up at an event intended to help people enroll -- and they had trouble enrolling them.
Only 100 people showed up to an Obamacare event at Heinz Field in
Pittsburgh on Thursday with Steelers chairman Dan Rooney and Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Many could not even sign up
for health care at the event that was meant to help potential new
enrollees.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sebelius
"had a front-row view of the problems plaguing the website that the
government established to allow people to shop for health insurance
under Obamacare."
Though Sebelius told the 100 people who showed up that Healthcare.gov was “open for business," those who tried to sign up for health insurance at the event could not access the site "even with the help of a certified application counselor":
Asked about the ongoing problems with
the website and the fact that people at a government enrollment event
couldn't sign up, Sebelius told reporters that she didn't know what
problems were affecting service at Heinz Field. The government has made
hardware and software upgrades to improve the site, she said, and it is
working for many people.
I think we've got enough objective evidence about what a disaster this program is to shut it down now before it is fully implemented and becomes a total disaster.
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