How fast people forget….
The Bush Medicare Part B- which is still a nightmare to enroll in and compare coverage- had a very rocky start itself. Funny, how the GOP seems to forget that….
Almost all the same problems impacting the early days of Obamacare, as they call it now, were there for the Bush rollout as well.
While it would have been nice to have had a seamless launch for both, it’s ultimately the benefits that matter, not how smoothly the program launches. We have time to fix the glitches….
In other words, get a grip!
From ThinkProgress.org:
Millions of Americans try to enroll in health care benefits during the first days of a new government health care program. They rely on indispensable government website that had been “pitched as a high-tech way” to sort through available coverage options. They’re encountering countless glitches and technical errors: the website freezes, displays incorrect plan information and sends insurers erroneous reports.
Administration officials — clearly caught off guard by the surge of technical difficulties — respond to “tens of thousands of complaints” from angry beneficiaries and promise to “fix every problem as quickly possible.”
This sounds like the familiar story of the last few days of the Obama administration’s rollout of the exchanges. But, actually, those quotes, and that scenario, are taken from the Bush administration’s efforts to implement the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2005 and 2006.
Lost in the 21st Century 