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Saturday, October 05, 2013

Fail Leviathan

It’s not a bug, it’s an undocumented feature.

As the woefully misnamed Affordable Care Act and its new online exchanges were rolled out this week, a weary nation received a reminder about the efficiency and effectiveness of government-run enterprise. The damned things just didn’t work. From Connecticut to California, Americans went online and check out such richly subsidized deals as were available under the new law — and one gets the distinct impression that a goodly share of those doing so were reporters and political activists — and they were greeted with the federal version of the Twitter “fail whale” — call it the Fail Leviathan.

But the Democrats had their talking points down. Everybody from the secretary of health and human services to the president himself cited Apple’s rollout of iOS 7, and the inevitable software updates that will follow, as a model of federal action. It wasn’t incompetence, they assured us, or inability, or lack of aptitude, just a few “glitches.” And soon, the story goes, we’ll have some updates, we’ll work out those glitches, and all things Obamacare will move with the intuitive ease of an iPad.
And a weary nation might wonder: Who plays Richard Williamson in this drama?

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2 comments:

ginn said...

From what I've read if you do get through and give your information and then don't buy, the gov't will fine you. If you don't pay the fine your driver's license is revoked, your tax refunds are taken and finally they may put a tax lien on your home. So, whatever you do don't give 'em your info unless you're going to buy..., btw monthly premiums of $550 with $14,000 deductibles aren't uncommon.
Obamacare is little more then another attack on America.

Anonymous said...

IF the iPhone only had the dismal success rate f what..0.05% that obamacare has, there would not be an iPhone! Stupid comparison Dumbocrats!