Right-Wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed

[Indy Texas]

This is interesting, given the general incompetence of the Right Wing in all things IT-related.

[Indy Texas]

If a site cant stand up to simple DDOS attacks its still a problem.

Indeed.

Dems, you don't need excuses, just wait.  If it all fails you have the "we had to compromise, that's why it failed" excuse to fall back on.  Don't worry so much about this.

The California site is working out quite nicely. If most states had done the responsible, mature thing and set up their own exchanges and websites the way they wanted, they wouldn't have their citizens having to use the federal exchange website. You can't forfeit an opportunity to do something yourself and then complain when the federal government doesn't do as good a job as you wanted.

[Indy Texas]

If a site cant stand up to simple DDOS attacks its still a problem.

Indeed.

Dems, you don't need excuses, just wait.  If it all fails you have the "we had to compromise, that's why it failed" excuse to fall back on.  Don't worry so much about this.

The California site is working out quite nicely. If most states had done the responsible, mature thing and set up their own exchanges and websites the way they wanted, they wouldn't have their citizens having to use the federal exchange website. You can't forfeit an opportunity to do something yourself and then complain when the federal government doesn't do as good a job as you wanted.

I should have been more clear, I was referring to the ACA in general, not just the Federal website.  And I'm not complaining about it, just pointing out the "out" you'll all have.  I hope it works out.

Honestly, I don't know what everyone is so upset about, even with the website errors and the you-can't-keep-your-plan stuff.

85% of Americans had health insurance before the ACA. And most of those people were getting it through their employer and had plans that already complied with the ACA's minimum standards.

The only people who are affected by this are:
(1) The 15% of the population who were uninsured, a large portion of whom will just go straight into Medicaid anyway and don't even have to bother with this.
(2) Self-employed people who bought their own health insurance and, in all likelihood, would not have been able to afford the deductibles their plans had in the event that they did have a serious health event.

This whole thing has been blown out of proportion as if we're all being forced to use the crappy Healthcare.gov website and that simply isn't the case. As far as I can tell, the only people who are indisputably net "losers" from this whole scheme are single men in their 20s and 30s who make a lot of money, don't have any health problems, and aren't very risk averse. In other words, the ACA is hurting the trading desk at Goldman Sachs. Boo hoo.

More comical are the anti-ACA activists trying to persuade college students to refuse to buy health insurance, blissfully ignorant of the fact that most of their target audience is already covered under their parents' plans and the fact that nearly all colleges and universities in this country mandate that students carry health insurance as a condition of enrollment.