Obamacare Software Failure Could Bury U.S., Democrats

One of the odd byproducts of the government shutdown brouhaha was a temporary respite from negative media coverage about the Affordable Care Act rollout. But no more; the lens is being refocused, and it’s not pretty. Nor should it be.

As Ezra Klein and others have pointed out, the early ‘glitches’ in ACA websites haven’t been glitches at all; they’ve been abject failures, pure and simple.

And Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle, who knows a bit about IT and its challenges, takes those failures to their possible conclusion:

“If the exchanges don’t get fixed soon, they could destroy Obamacare….At what point do we admit that the system just isn’t working well enough, roll it back and delay the whole thing for a year?”

Well, let’s not get too far over our skis yet.

But Michael Barone at RCP has a brief and reasonably thoughtful take on the real repercussions of an ACA implementation failure, and what scale of shock that would deliver to the nation, and to the Democratic Party. It’s worth a look.

By: rhb

Rob is a NYC-based Internet entrepreneur. He's also a businessman and job creator (wait: doesn't demand create jobs?) who understands the sense, and the eventual predominance, of the progressive agenda.