Obama 'Mad' About Health Care Exchange Site Failures
But insists the program itself works
A defiant President Obama said Monday he is "mad" about problems with a new health care website, but argued that the Affordable Care Act as a whole is working as planned.
While Healthcare.gov hasn't worked "as it was supposed to have worked," Obama said during a White House speech that once-uninsured Americans have signed up for coverage and are receiving benefits.
"The product—the health care—is good," Obama said.
Facing attacks from Republicans and other critics of Obamacare, the president said his health care team is reaching out to tech experts to help fix massive website problems that have hampered the rollout of his landmark piece of legislation.
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Well, I’m certainly glad we’re mortgaging my son’s future for “good” health care. I’m tickled
I don’t get it. If the exchanges don’t work, and almost everyone cannot use them, in what meaningful way is the health care “good”? How can a product that is unavailable be good, bad, or otherwise?
I would have hated to be the person that brought him the morning paper a few days ago that told him those exchanges weren’t working!