Affordable Care Act Exchanges Open!

[Lief 🗽]

https://www.healthcare.gov/

Already 1 million people have visited the site today. In fact, traffic seems to be higher than expected leading to some opening day glitches.

Meanwhile, House GOP has now voted 46 times to repeal Obamacare and replace it with nothing.

[The Free North]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Because the healthcare will keep you around longer to torment them?

[King]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Fortunately they were never going to exist anyway.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Better bury more gold in the backyard to help them live through Thunderdome

[The Free North]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Because the healthcare will keep you around longer to torment them?

When they wait longer for worse care given by a shrinking number of doctors, I will feel incredibly guilty.

[King]

Forget the shrinking number of doctors, I tried to select security questions from my account sign up on the site and it gave me no options so I can't complete the registration.

They should have a Facebook connect button.

[Lief 🗽]

things that are important to CTRattlesnake: not having to wait slightly longer to see a doctor
things that are not important to CTRattlesnake: poor people also getting to see that doctor at some point

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

things that are important to CTRattlesnake: not having to wait slightly longer to see a doctor
things that are not important to CTRattlesnake: poor people also getting to see that doctor at some point

if the poor steal all the healthy there will be no healthy left for him

[King]

Forget the shrinking number of doctors, I tried to select security questions from my account sign up on the site and it gave me no options so I can't complete the registration.

They should have a Facebook connect button.

Okay, if I enter in three random words despite no questions tied to them, it will accept my registration.  I don't know if most people will be able to figure that out, however.

It needs to be fixed ASAP.

[The Free North]

things that are important to CTRattlesnake: not having to wait slightly longer to see a doctor
things that are not important to CTRattlesnake: poor people also getting to see that doctor at some point

Youre a moron. You really are.


I am training at medical school currently, my father has been in practice for over 30 years, and his father was a doctor before he came to this country.

Do you have any clue how many times doctors give free care away? My father has worked in some of the poorest sections of the city and has literally worked for free for years. Doctors are good people who got into the business trying to help everyone, regardless of money. Government has been destroying medicine in this country for decades, and this is no different. Your 'poor people' argument doesnt fly because it doesnt exist outside of extreme cases. All this bill will do, and has already done, is prevent people from going into medicine, force doctors to give poor care due to cuts, and ultimately end up destroying the system as we know it.


Enjoy the ignore button

[King]

Do you have any clue how many times doctors give free care away? My father has worked in some of the poorest sections of the city and has literally worked for free for years.

And now they'll get paid for it.

[Lief 🗽]

Ah, so the solution to the 45 million uninsured Americans is to just trust doctors to give them healthcare for free. Literally libertarian fairy dust logic.

[Gass3268]

May this day forver be known as Obamacare Day! A day of celebration and joy!

[7,052,770]

Googling "Mississippi exchange" leads to a bunch of fake sites instead of healthcare.gov.  This needs to be fixed.

Of course, every new Apple release is super glitchy on launch day, and everyone forgives them, so hopefully this will be the same.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

things that are important to CTRattlesnake: not having to wait slightly longer to see a doctor
things that are not important to CTRattlesnake: poor people also getting to see that doctor at some point

[...]
 Your 'poor people' argument doesnt fly because it doesnt exist outside of extreme cases.

Just because you've never come into contact with those people doesn't mean they don't exist, obviously.

[Oakvale]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

That might be premature since producing children at the very least requires venturing from your mother's basement and talking to women.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Apologizing to your right hand?

[opebo]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Because the healthcare will keep you around longer to torment them?

When they wait longer for worse care given by a shrinking number of doctors, I will feel incredibly guilty.

That worries you?  Good lord man your poverty stricken descendants wouldn't even have access to a nurse without socialized medicine.  Or are you rich?

[opebo]

Googling "Mississippi exchange" leads to a bunch of fake sites instead of healthcare.gov.  This needs to be fixed.

Of course, every new Apple release is super glitchy on launch day, and everyone forgives them, so hopefully this will be the same.

I don't think Mississippi is participating, Harry:

[King]

Googling "Mississippi exchange" leads to a bunch of fake sites instead of healthcare.gov.  This needs to be fixed.

Of course, every new Apple release is super glitchy on launch day, and everyone forgives them, so hopefully this will be the same.

I don't think Mississippi is participating, Harry:

The lack of Medicaid expansion only hurts the poors who can't afford even subsidized private insurance.  The exchanges are a federal program and so people in red states will still have access to them.

[jaichind]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-01/obamacare-exchanges-debut-with-websites-down-and-state-delays

Health Exchanges Debut With Websites Down, Delays

Typical of government IT project.  Of course the Romney 2012 Orca project was not better.  

[7,052,770]

Opebo, the federal government has set up exchanges for the 36 states who didn't create their own.

[opebo]

The lack of Medicaid expansion only hurts the poors who can't afford even subsidized private insurance.  The exchanges are a federal program and so people in red states will still have access to them.

I see.  So essentially the people who really need help won't be helped.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

I apologize to my children and grandchildren in advance

Weird. I left talking to my socks behind in 3rd grade.