Despite Glitches, Half A Million Americans Sign Up Online For Obamacare

Obviously, the Obama Administration had best be scrambling to fix the Obamacare signup web site, whose snafu-rich launch is a sterling demonstration of a federal “cheap labor” contracting system that ends up wasting money and resources rather than finding the best people and hardware for the job. Nevertheless:

Roughly half a million Americans have applied for health insurance through new federal- and state-run exchanges under President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, an administration official said on Saturday.

Problems with the federal marketplace’s entry portal serving 36 states, the website Healthcare.gov, have put a brake on the ability of consumers to shop for federally subsidized health coverage and drawn derision from Republicans, who oppose the law, popularly known as Obamacare.

“The website is unacceptable, and we are improving it, but the product is good and across the country people are getting access to affordable care starting January 1,” an administration official said.

“We are going to work intensely for the next six months to make sure we meet the demand.”

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.