to President Obama: Does a drowning man deduct style points from the man diving in to save him?
WHile M$M has had a ball reporting on the troubles on the Healthcare.gov website, there are millions of people who couldn't afford healthcare before who will now be able to afford it. THEY WANT TO SEE THE ACA SUCCEED. They are not the ones engaging in orgies of schadenfreude.
Obamacare website off to a rocky start on crucial deadline day
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/30/21687868-obamacare-website-off-to-a-rocky-start-on-crucial-deadline-day
WASHINGTON -- A crucial weekend for the troubled website that is the backbone of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul appears to be off to a shaky start, as the U.S. government took the HealthCare.gov site offline for an unusually long maintenance period into Saturday morning.
Just hours before the Obama administration's self-imposed deadline to get the insurance shopping website working for the "vast majority" of its users by Saturday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was taking down the website for an 11-hour period that would end at 8 a.m. ET on Saturday.
It was unclear whether the extended shutdown of the website - about seven hours longer than on a typical day - represented a major setback to the Obama administration's high-stakes scramble to fix the portal that it hopes eventually will enroll about 7 million uninsured and under-insured Americans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
At the very least, the shutdown suggested that nine weeks after the website's disastrous launch on October 1 prevented most applicants from enrolling in coverage and ignited one of the biggest crises of Obama's administration, U.S. officials are nervous over whether Americans will see enough progress in the website to be satisfied.
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