-By Warner Todd Huston
CBS’ Jan Crawford is giving it to America straight. The roll out of the Obamacare websites has been a major failure.
Crawford’s report was quite dire and in fact had not a single positive word to say about the roll out. And, while most of her report took the form of quotes from experts, other media outlets, interested parties, even late night comedians, in her own words she proclaimed it “nothing short of disastrous.”
The CBS report noted that media outlets have not been able to find any Americans seeking health insurance who were able to successfully sign up for Obamacare, pointed out that the administration stonewalled about how many have successfully signed up, and even reported that those that were at least able to create an account have now been told to reset their user name and password and start from scratch.
Crawford also featured a few words from database expert Luke Chung who said that the website is a failure in all respects.
“It wasn’t designed well, it wasn’t implemented well, and it looks like nobody tested it,” Chung said.
“It’s not even close. It’s not even ready for beta testing for my book. I would be ashamed and embarrassed if my organization delivered something like that,” he concluded.
But the administration unwisely pushed forward on the website launches despite being warned repeatedly by major insurance companies and healthcare officials that the system was not at all ready to launch.
This is likely not the story that the progressive media expected to be telling this month. As liberal radio host Thom Hartmann admitted, the media had agreed to help the rollout of Obamacare by publishing numerous stories on how to sign up for Obamacare.
Unfortunately for them, all the stories have had to be about this massive failure instead of its rosy success.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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