Patrick: Mass. Obamacare website ‘gets better every day’

bostonherald.com ^ | November 14, 2013 | November 14, 2013

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Massachusetts Health Connector website “gets better every day,” Governor Deval Patrick said this morning, calling the bugs and glitches users have experienced “nothing unexpected.”

“It’s slow because there’s been just a lot of demand for it,” he said.

Patrick said people can sign up by phone if the website does not work, but added the site is improving.

“We’re making progress,” he said.

As the Herald has reported, Bay Staters have faced a slew of problems when they try to sign up through the Connector’s website, including being forced to falsely claim they are prison inmates or mental patients.

Roughly 1 percent of the Massachusetts residents who are losing their coverage and need to enroll in the Health Connector by Jan. 1 have done so.

Patrick said he was not worried that people could lack coverage on Jan 1.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Gov. Patrick On The 'Fumbled' Healthcare Rollout - November 14, 2013 - “The ACA in particular is in this pathetic kind of dynamic in Washington, where you have the people who believe that folks should not have health care- or I guess that it shouldn't be delivered in a market-based solution like this- most of them hard right Republicans who have been looking to undermine this from the beginning, and are sitting around rooting for the problems with implementation as if they are sorry that it isn't being smoothly implemented. ....they don't have in the Obama Administration the environment to operate where they can make an honest mistake or say "Honestly, I'm not quote sure we have the best solution to this individual glitch," without people saying, "See I told you! I told you!"....”

[FlingWingFlyer]

So I take it that DeeVal has already signed up?

[Brandonmark]

I thought that Massachusetts had the perfect health care law...then why should anyone be signing up for Obamacare anyway?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I bet Deval tries to run for President in 2016. Unnngh.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe — but Obamacare itself just keeps getting worse.

[tumblindice]

It’s getting better all the time
I used to get mad at my school (No, I can’t complain)
The teachers who taught me weren’t cool( No, I can’t complain)
You’re holding me down (Oh Oh)
Turning me round(Oh Oh)
Filling me up with your rules(Oooh)

I’ve got to admit it’s getting better (Better)
It’s a little better all the time (It can’t get no worse)
I have to admit it’s getting better (better)
It’s getting better
Sgt. Deval’s Lonely Heart Clubs Band

[RetiredTexasVet]

The infamous, “It doesn’t work, but it’s the fastest one around”.

[lurk]

Doesn’t MA have its own universal mandatory Romneycare already?

[unlearner]

“gets better every day”

Sure. Because, when starting at complete failure, any change is generally going to be an improvement.

But give it time. Total incompetence can make it even worse.

Obama’s complete lack of executive experience or even just administrative and managerial experience is proving that just criticizing, campaigning, blaming, and empty rhetoric do not get the job done.

Only complete morons would think the massive quantity of the Obamacare regulations was ever a good idea or ever had any chance of success (unless success is defined as destroying this nation).

[Redcitizen]

Lyrics to Keep On Rocking Me, Baby :

Well, I`ve been looking real hard
And I`m trying to find a job
But it just keeps getting
Tougher every day.

[Pining_4_TX]

“being forced to falsely claim they are prison inmates or mental patients.”

I’m pretty sure everyone in MA is one or the other. Otherwise they would leave.