Week 3: ObamaCare Exchanges Still a Disaster

Even Democrats slam ObamaCare rollout:

  • Weekly Standard: Gibbs: Obamacare Roll Out ‘Excruciatingly Embarrassing,’ People in Charge Should Be Fired

  • Politico: Nancy Pelosi: Obamacare website ‘has to be improved’

  • National Review Online: Wasserman Schultz: Exchanges Needed Better Design, Better Rollout

  • Real Clear Politics: DNC’s Wasserman Schultz: Obamacare Should Have Had A Better Rollout And Design

  • Boston Herald: Obamacare adviser: Rollout in crisis

The exchange rollout continues to be “disastrous,” “abysmal,” a “failure”:

  • Daily Beast: The Abysmal, Pathetic Obamacare Rollout

  • Washington Post: ‘Obamacare is a bit like the astronaut on top of the rocket’

  • Reason: Administration Blows Its Credibility With Disastrous Obamacare Rollout

  • Washington Free Beacon: CBS: Obamacare Rollout Has Been a Complete Disaster

  • Washington Free Beacon: Ezra Klein: Obamacare Rollout Has So Far ‘Been a Big Failure’

  • News4 Jax: Clients frustrated with affordable health care website

  • Huffington Post: Obamacare Website Failure Threatens Health Coverage For Millions Of Americans

Exchange problems more than just “glitches”:

  • USA Today: Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul

  • Patch: Maryland Health Connection Users: ‘Site Keeps Crashing,’ ‘Design is Terrible’

  • Politico: Two weeks in, Obamacare website still broken

  • Washington Free Beacon: Glitches Still Plague Alabama Obamacare Exchange Website

  • CBS This Morning: Healthcare.gov problems reach beyond enrollment

  • CBS News: Congress wants explanation for Obamacare site glitches

  • Washington Post: Analysis: Obamacare glitches scare off many Web site users

  • New York Times: From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal

  • Fox News: Another ObamaCare ‘Glitch’: $30B blown on non-operational medical record system

  • Hispanic Business: Obamacare Signups Slowed by Computer Glitches

  • USA Today: Health care exchange still plagued by problems

  • Washington Free Beacon: A New Glitch Has Emerged In The Obamacare Exchanges

  • Forbes: Developing Obamacare's Health Care Exchanges Has Cost More Than Apple's Original iPhone

  • CBS New York: Expert: Obamacare Website Is ‘Not Even Ready For Beta Testing’

  • The Hill: Analysis highlights flaws with ObamaCare sites’ design

  • Hot Air: Uh oh: Maryland’s Obamacare exchange won’t be fixed for 4-6 weeks

  • Honolulu Star Advertiser: Health exchange website still not working

  • Wall Street Journal: Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data

  • Washington Free Beacon: Carney Won’t Say When Obamacare Will Be Fully Functional 

Enrollees? What enrollees?

  • CNBC: Vast majority of Obamacare exchange visitors don't enroll

  • The Hill: Analysis: Less than 1 percent of visitors to ObamaCare exchange enrolled

  • Argus Leader: In S.D., just 23 sign up for health insurance exchange so far

  • Associated Press: Delaware health officials celebrate first health exchange enrollee

  • Complete Pulse: A Bleak First Week: 99.6% of Healthcare.gov Visitors Did NOT Enroll in Obamacare

  • Associated Press: Murkowski: No one in Alaska has been able to enroll in new health care exchange

  • Washington Post: Visits to federal health-care Web site off 88%

  • Miami Herald: Obamacare enrollees become urban legend

  • Washington Free Beacon: Arizonans Still Unable to Sign Up for Obamacare

  • Wausau Daily Herald: Few able to sign up for Obamacare in Wisconsin

  • Weekly Standard: Two Weeks Later, Reporter Still Can't Sign Up for Obamacare

  • Des Moines Register: Survey: Obamacare befuddles Iowans

More questions about ObamaCare’s implementation emerge:

Americans can’t afford ObamaCare:

  • Chicago Tribune: Obamacare deductibles a dose of sticker shock

  • Bloomberg: Patients Pay Before Seeing Doctor as Deductibles Spread

  • Fox News: Young and healthy could wind up paying higher premiums for   ObamaCare, some experts say

  • Wall Street Journal: Individual policy pricing skyrockets under Obamacare, broker site says

  • Madison-St.Clair Record: ObamaCare: Rate shock in Illinois and across the nation

  • Washington Free Beacon: Obamacare Forcing Michigan Couple to Pay Yearly Deductible Twice

  • Weekly Standard: Obamacare Triples Health Insurance Premium for New Mexico Man

  • Detroit Free Press: 146,000 Michiganders - at least - face loss of cheaper policies under new health care reform rules

  • ABC7: Affordable Care Act driving some premiums up

  • WECT: Business owners raise concerns about Affordable Care Act

  • Albuquerque Journal: Insurance changes ahead, even for happily insured

 

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