by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2013 | Health
Over at Salon.com, a debate flared up this week between Joan Walsh and Brian Beutler on how liberal opinion journalists should handle coverage of the Obamacare website's initial rollout. Walsh argued "yes, it’s important for Democrats to acknowledge when government...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Debug Effort Speeds Up As Hearings Commence HHS details debugging efforts. AP: "Unexpectedly high consumer interest that overwhelmed the system in its initial days. Equipment has been added to handle the load and system design has been improved. More fixes are in...
by Bill Scher | Oct 23, 2013 | Health, Retirement Security
Over at The Week I offered up 5 Other Botched Rollouts of Government Programs" in order to bring a little historical perspective to the current pile-on over the HealthCare.gov bugs. The common thread of all the programs I covered is: stuff gets fixed, people move on....
by Bill Scher | Oct 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
HHS Chipping Away At Website Snags Too early to judge, HHS Sec Sebelius tells CNN: "While refusing to give a timetable Tuesday as to when the website will be fully operational, Sebelius insisted 'it's improving every day, and more people are getting through ... and we...
by Bill Scher | Oct 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dems Thrown Down On Taxes Dems "to go on offense on raising taxes" reports The Hill: "Congressional Democrats want Republicans to sign off on $50 billion worth of tax increases to eliminate the sequester’s automatic spending cuts ... Democrats say they would not...
