Glitches with Obamacare

It’s no secret that there are glitches to Obamacare. According to a recent Washington Post article, “it crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously.” Forbes magazine claims that the healthcare.gov website forces people to create an account and enter their personal information before they can shop and select plans. This creates a “traffic bottleneck” which causes a lag as the government checks the information provided and if the person qualifies for subsidies. Forbes says, “HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.” These glitches are starting to frustrate people. If they have to join, then they should have smoothed out all the defects before they opened it. These glitches are not the only thing that are making American upset, on average Americans will have to pay more than their current health plan. For instance, Ohio is expecting their insurance premiums to jump up to almost 41%. The whole point of the affordable health care act is to make insurance more affordable, not make it more expensive. Perhaps Obamacare really isn’t an affordable health care act after all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2013/10/21/161a3500-3a85-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/