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‘HealthCare.gov is in de facto shutdown’
The Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 10/23/2013 12:19:32 PM PDT by kristinn

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The entire interview is worth reading.
1 posted on 10/23/2013 12:19:32 PM PDT by kristinn
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Blaming others for one’s own actions or inactions is a direct indicator of someone who refuses to take responsibility for their own actions or lack of actions.

Two year old children often behave that way: Barry, Holder, Reid, Pelosi, Mrs. Bill Clinton, McCain - - - did I leave anybody out?


2 posted on 10/23/2013 12:23:45 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: kristinn

I wonder why president stampyfoot felt it was better to throw $600 million away on a simple sign-up website that still doesn’t work rather than simply take what Mitt Romney implemented seven years and adapt it for national use.


3 posted on 10/23/2013 12:24:11 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: kristinn


4 posted on 10/23/2013 12:27:14 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( L.I.P. (low information President))
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[Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a policy and marketplace consulting firm]:
The demand here is real. I don’t think anyone can dispute that millions of people want to sign up...

Oh, I can dispute that.

5 posted on 10/23/2013 12:28:43 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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To: Alex Murphy

They have a gun in their face and/or have been kicked off their current insurance

and he makes it sound as if they are flocking to it because they’re so excited about it.

The only ones that are excited about it are those that think they’re going to get something for nothing.


6 posted on 10/23/2013 12:32:04 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: muir_redwoods

Obama wants America to be a third rate nation in every respects. It is as if he is an answer to the annoyed British or Canadian socialists who came to America to get medical treatment.


8 posted on 10/23/2013 12:34:02 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Alex Murphy

I don’t doubt it. A lot of Medicaid people think it will average them up, and a lot of other Obama voters still think it will be free.

But no one who is working and has insurance wants in.


9 posted on 10/23/2013 12:35:39 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: kristinn
So if they fix the front end for consumers and thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people being enrolled before they fix the back end, we’ll have a catastrophic mess.

Perfectly true. But the "back end" in this case isn't a database, it's the legislation itself. Here's an example:

This [834] process is decades old. Every union and every self-insured employer who contracts with an insurance company uses it. It’s like a 74 Ford pick-up truck. There’s nothing complicated about it. People in the industry are shaking their heads over the errors they’re getting. They’ve been using this process for many years. No one has ever seen these kinds of errors before. No one has any idea where they’re coming from.

Here's a systems question so basic that every IT professional gets tired of hearing it: if it worked before, what changed? What served to change the relationships, the reporting, the established pipelines? The first place to look isn't the software, it's the underlying model. 0bamacare changed a very great deal of that. And by "changed" I mean "broke".

Hope and change. Give up the hope and embrace the broken.

10 posted on 10/23/2013 12:42:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: sickoflibs

The lawsuit settlement with The Post is for 300 word excerpts. That’s why the article was cut off where it was.


11 posted on 10/23/2013 12:48:09 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Alex Murphy

Millions want to log-on and get their free healthcare.

Once the site is working they’ll quickly be disabused of that notion.


12 posted on 10/23/2013 12:52:56 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It’s also being hacked and contaminated with malware...


13 posted on 10/23/2013 12:55:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: kristinn

AHHHH, I got nailed :)

it was good though!


14 posted on 10/23/2013 12:56:54 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: kristinn

For Ezra Klein at the WaPo to write this is a hint that the disaster is far bigger than even this gloomy assessment.


15 posted on 10/23/2013 12:57:09 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: kristinn

Not pretty and this is being put out by one of the most hardcore, MSNBC contributing, uber-lefties you can find. In essence by publishing the interview instead of reporting it, he is letting his source point out that the Administration has been lying about improvement.


16 posted on 10/23/2013 1:00:05 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Yehuda; Jeremiah Jr
Shutdown? More like a crash and burn.


TOWER OF OBAMA

17 posted on 10/23/2013 1:07:20 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: kristinn

I wonder how many unemployed software people are out there having their way with it.


18 posted on 10/23/2013 1:13:59 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (ZeroCare: Make them pay; do not delay.)
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To: kristinn

So they’ve brought in a “turnaround artist” now to kick Sebelius to the side and try to get this thing working.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the turnaround artist they brought in was Mitt Romney?

If the American people want socialism, they ought to at least elect someone with experience running SOMETHING to implement it. Not a f$&%in’ community organizer.


19 posted on 10/23/2013 1:16:25 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: kristinn

Now they are just talking about the disastrous website. Wait until people get to sign up and are shocked by what happens next. People honestly think they were going to get free healthcare or free insurance.


20 posted on 10/23/2013 1:27:10 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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