It has been a long road for Obamacare. It had to go through a Supreme Court appeal, a government shutdown, and continuing oppositions by many politicians before it was running. Now it is running and every American must have health insurance or pay a fee. The rollout of Obamacare hasn't been easy though. 5 main things have happened since the start of Obamacare.
1. Sign up on Healthcare.gov has been hard: There have been difficulties for the many Americans that have been trying to sign up for health insurance on the government website. The number of people that are trying to access this website has contributed to the problem. Technical workers have been working long hours to try to get the new website running better. Obama said that the difficulties are unacceptable.
2. State sites seemed to fare better: 14 states are now using their own website for enrollment in health insurance. The government website has not been doing well so many states have tried their own websites which are working a lot better.
3. Overall enrollment numbers are unclear: The government has not set a goal for monthly enrollment numbers yet. They are expecting a lot of new enrollment in the upcoming weeks and months. But it is still unclear how many people have signed up for health insurance.
4. The Cost of Care has become more clear: Before Obamacare, nobody really knew how much it was going to cost. But now that is has been running for a couple of days, researchers are finding out how much it is going to cost. It is affecting local and independent insurance companies a lot.
5. The Shutdown came and went-without changing much: The shutdown had no effect on users trying to sign up for Obamacare. But the shutdown is the reason that Obamacare was delayed for so long.
My opinion on this article is that they need to get Obamacare running better. If this really is a great future for our country then we at least need to get it running well. I personally don't think Obamacare is the right thing for this country. All it is doing is forcing people to get health insurance, decreasing the quality of our healthcare, and ruining private businesses that are trying to sell healthcare.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/19/health/obamacare-enrollment-launch-overview/index.html?hpt=us_c2
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/19/health/obamacare-enrollment-launch-overview/index.html?hpt=us_c2
I didn't even realize that states could have their own sites for people to sign up for Obamacare. I would think that would a better way of doing this healthcare program and wonder why more states haven't tried to do the same.
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