Obama focused on fixing glitches in healthcare rollout (a little comedic relief as Roma burns)

Yahoo! News ^ | 10/20/13 | Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is frustrated by the problems with the rollout of his signature healthcare reform and the administration intends to fix them.

Fresh from the U.S. budget battles, Obama on Monday will turn his attention to convincing Americans that the healthcare program can be fixed, despite the initial problems.

Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the administration was determined to repair the technical glitches in the online insurance exchanges that are a central part of the program known as "Obamacare," which launched on October 1.

"I think that there's no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website," Lew said. He said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "has got plans to fix this and it has to fix this. It has to be done right."

Obama told aides in a recent Oval Office meeting that the administration had to take responsibility for the fact that the website was not ready on time. He is expected to address that in his remarks on Monday.

Administration officials are expected to travel the country in the coming weeks to encourage people to sign up on the exchanges, targeting areas where there are high percentages of uninsured, according to one official.

[tennmountainman]

And Dr. Banglidash doesn’t even speak english.

[inchworm]

AN EPIC FAILURE!

[Old Yeller]

Lets let Barry and Kathy S. do the coding. And when they get it working correctly and installed, ObamaDontCare can proceed.

[USNBandit]

It’s the government motto. “If you hate our problems, just wait until you see our solutions.”

[tennmountainman]

Epic!

[Lmo56]

Obama had 3 years to build and TEST this site.

And it wasn't even tested until 4-6 days before the site went live on-line ...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Obama focused on fixing glitches in healthcare rollout...forget the rollout - I'm scared about what happens deep into the program when we're using ten year old technology, secret procedures to prevent the evil Republicans from finding out what we're doing, and crony contractors for developing the software to transmit our medical information amonst the various service providers - whose blood pressure readings will my family doc get - whose MRI's will my surgeon receive - this is insanity.....

[oldbill]

Then:
“Are you a brain surgeon?”
“No, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”

Now:
“Are you a brain surgeon?”
“No, I’m a navigator from ACORN. Are you registered to vote?”