Insurance Companies Worried Healthcare.gov "Fix" Will Lead to Even More Problems
Not an unreasonable concern
Insurers fear that a retooling of the government-run health insurance website and a fresh surge of enrollees has opened the floodgates to more problems for PresidentBarack Obama's health policy overhaul, a trade group said on Tuesday.
Obama planned to tout the reboot of HealthCare.gov in a speech on Tuesday as he sought to counter criticism of his reforms after the website's disastrous October 1 launch sent his job approval ratings plummeting and threatened to damage fellow Democrats in next year's congressional elections.
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"The administration says HealthCare.gov site has performed better after a major, weeks-long effort by contractors to fix the site."
Better than what? A public union employee?