But America is now "free." So, totally worth it.
The thing I don't get is they had three years to prepare for all this. Three! 36 months! That's a shit load of time to get things right.
One could reasonably assume that if the people running this monstrous bureaucracy were semi-lucid and competent they'd pour every single ounce of energy and resources into ensuring the program gets off to a solid start with little exposure to glitches as possible, no? They, presumably, had access to the best possible computer programmers to help launch it, no?
Either they didn't, or they just plain incompetent.
I don't know.
I don't know how much more proof people need to accept relying on the government is not a good idea since it's an entity not designed to run what in reality is a BUSINESS.
About those '7 million unique visitors' as being more than 'Apple getting in a month.'
Carney is either a hack or he just plain thinks people are stupid. Even I know the basic tenet of web marketing and success - CLICK THROUGH RATES is what makes you money. That a site gets high traffic can mean anything. In the case of the exchanges, I'm sure a lot of it is people 'kicking the tires' curious about the whole thing. The question is what is the 'click-through' rate; or in this case registrations.
Seven million is not a lot once you remove all the "error pages" and the lot.
Get back to me in one week or month. Then the picture may be more reflective of the reality.
My guess is the internet will confirm this enormously unpopular legislation. At which point, the government will probably take more coercive action to force people onto its exchanges.
*Image from Reason Magazine.
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