The President spoke from the Rose Garden yesterday, pleading with Americans to stand by his signature health care plan affectionately known as "ObamaCare." He asserted for the umpteenth time that the plan is needed in order to provide Americans who have no insurance with a way to get it, and insisted that the ObamaCare website would shortly be fixed. In the meantime, he recommended that applicants apply by phone or by obtaining and filling out paper applications.
Let me say from the outset: the failure of the ObamaCare website to operate functionally is only a small symptom of a much larger and systemic problem that is costing us untold millions of dollars every day; it cost a record $500 million to build and that is a lot of money to pay for something that doesn't run. It'll cost untold millions of dollars more to fix, but President Obama and Kathleen Sibelius seem anxious to spend it.
Let me ask a basic question: If insurance companies sell health insurance in every state, why do we have these millions of people who do not have insurance and for which ObamaCare is designed to help? Speaking reasonably, it's either because they don't want it or they can't afford it. The ObamaCare program simply doesn't resolve either issue. FORBES suggests that the real reason the website is not functioning is that the government doesn't want people to discover how much ObamaCare is going to cost them. From what I have observed, that is a very valid fear.
I can't fathom why this government hired a Canadian firm that got kicked out of its contract to build Canada's Health System computer platform and website due to non-performance. That, in and of itself, is frankly "piss poor" planning. That, in turn, is indicative that the whole damned program is poorly planned. The fact that they are hiring ACORN employees and others without any background checks whatsoever to be "Navigators" to help people sign up, and who thereby gain access to confidential health and financial information, points to sheer ineptness that emanates from the very top echelon.
Let's face it: Obama and the Democrats didn't want any input from the Republicans, from medical professionals, from insurance companies or from anyone else on their "prized" program. We cannot and should not expect this thing to work; it would be a total miracle if it did.
Since these problems are systemic within the Obama Administration and within D.H.H.S., any assurances from the President that the whole mess will be fixed within a matter of days is pure poppycock. They really need to stop in their tracks, draw a deep breath and go back to the drawing board with planners, technicians and programmers who know what the hell they're doing.
For us to accept less is our own failure to demand responsible solutions and results from our own employees.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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