Republican Excuses Why "Obamacare is Doomed!"

[Grizzly Bear]

Well, the number of private enrollments in Obamacare/ACA is now going like gangbusters, with about 1.4 million enrollments as of this posting and enrollment heading towards meeting projections. It seems as if, contrary to all the frantic efforts by the GOP to stall, stop, reverse, or just plain obstruct the law's passage and implementation, the ACA is well on its way to success.

Let's take some time to list all the reasons why the GOP has said the ACA is doomed, DOOMED!!11!

Who'd like to start? I'll go first...

1. Healthcare.gov is a crappy website. And despite the fact that this is the same nation that sent humans to the moon, there's NO WAY it is possible to fix the website. OBAMACARE IS DOOMED, I tell you!

One thing Obama and congressional republicans have in common is they suck at getting past the talking points...

Whether or not the disaster of a website is fixable is one thing. Whether or not the system might finally work properly is possible, but as of now a few things stick out:

The monthly payments for the market place policies are cheap, and are even "cheaper" if you get the subsidies. Yet the deductibles are proving in some case to be insanely high. Might be useful in a catastrophic incident, but doesn't do me much good. I'm still bankrupt if I have to pay a few thousand dollars for a treatment. And for catastrophic incidents, I guess a few thousand dollars is better than hundreds of thousands... but that's like having another school loan to pay off any way.

Website's working slightly better... but apparently the processing of applicants is still screwy, so there's no immediate guarantee that my application went through.

Obama having to make administrative changes to the law in order to deal with those having their policies dropped is throwing a wrench into the short term viability of the market by throwing off the risk pool that's supposed to be covered by young participants.

Long story short... the talking points provide easy fodder to laugh at, but the details of the current setup aren't so much IMO. Seeing as the current state of affairs is sorta chaotic with the implementation.