President Obama stood in the Rose Garden and promised a “tech surge” to fix healthcare.gov. In reality, the surge was a tiny influx of “about a half-dozen people.” In a multi-page story on the effort to rebuild the troubled website,
Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says it would be “inexplicable” if no one was fired for the botched rollout of healthcare.gov. Appearing on MSNBC Monday morning, Gibbs told host Alex Wagner that he expected one or more people to
State Senator Wendy Davis appeared on a local Texas news station to express her support for food stamps last week, but she appeared unprepared for serious questions on the topic. After making some general comments about working families and the
Have you ever heard a song lyric and been sure you know what it says only to find out later your interpretation was completely wrong? If so then you already know what a mondegreen is. Here are a few examples
Friday, Ezra Klein has a post up at Wonkblog about the relaunch of Healthcare.gov, which the administration claimed would be working by November 30th. He breaks his analysis into 11 points. Here’s point #3 along with part of point #4:
This video produced by the Telegraph shows how Amazon processes and ships products from one warehouse in England during a big shopping week. The Amazon spokesperson says last year at this time they had 3.5 million items ordered in 24
MSNBC has apparently had an ongoing story in which contributor Jimmy Williams tries to sign up for health insurance on Healthcare.gov. In yesterday’s installment, Williams announced that his most recent attempt to log on to the site failed as have
Way back on October 21st, when the White House was still optimistic that problems with healthcare.gov would be fixed relatively quickly, the Washington Post explained that the administration still had weeks to get this right. In fact, the drop dead
A poll released Wednesday by the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling finds Republican Governor Chris Christie is more popular than Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. PPP found Christie leading Clinton 48-44 in the state. Clinton led other possible 2016 contenders
Thomas Ritter is a teacher in Irving, Texas. Before the passage of Obamacare, Ritter wrote to the President expressing his dismay over the partisan tone in Washington. The President responded, denying he had targeted “tea baggers.” “I watched you make
With Novermber 30th approaching, the Obama administration and their allies in the media have started moving the goalposts on what constitutes success for the law. The answer, not surprisingly, is something less than previously expected. During the Monday conference call
Picture it. Your entire family has just gotten together for its big annual reunion over Thanksgiving dinner. All of your aunts and uncles are there and you’ve had a delicious meal. As the tryptophan floats through your system the whole
The entire country was charmed by the story of Miles Scott, a five year old leukemia patient whose wish was to become Batkid for a day. Miles got his wish thanks to the Make-a-Wish foundation and to the city of
Health care wonks are crowing about a “November surge” in enrollment. Will the November surge will be able to make up for the October purge, i.e. the millions who were dropped from existing plans because of Obamacare’s new minimum standards
On August 22, 2009 Reuters published a story titled “Obama again tackles ‘myths’ on healthcare reform.” Notice the hint of exasperation in the headline. Obama is having to debunk “myths” put out by his opponents again. As promised the first
Emails sent by CMS in the days before the Obamacare website launch reveal growing concern about the system’s ability to handle concurrent users because of coding problems. One email dated September 27th warns “Adding capacity to address bottlenecks like these
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the President is not dropping use of the term “Obamacare” even as a new Gallup survey that shows that the widely used moniker for the troubled health law polls seven points below the phrase
A CNN poll released Thursday finds President Obama’s favorability has hit an all-time low. The joint CNN/ORC poll found Obama at 41 percent approval. His 56 percent disapproval marks an all-time high. This is just the most recent poll to
One of New York’s top hospitals, the first one in the world dedicated to treating cancer, is not currently included in any Obamacare plans being sold in the state. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is one of the largest cancer hospitals
Henry Chao, the project manager for Healthcare.gov, wrote an email one week before the Oct. 1 launch of Healthcare.gov which indicates the White House was afraid the site might crash after launch. Fox News reports the email was in reference
Newly available numbers from Kentucky show the majority of people who have enrolled on the state exchange are older than anticipated by the Obama administration. This could spell problems down the road for the Affordable Care Act if the ratios
One of the promises Democrats made over and over in 2009-2010 which hasn’t yet been violated is that Obamacare would lower the deficit slightly over 10 years. Conservatives have said all along that the history of big government social programs
The Obamacare rollout continues to create political problems for the Obama administration. A Gallup poll released Monday shows that the goal of universal coverage–the primary purpose of the Affordable Care Act– is less popular than ever. The poll, which was
A Reuters investigation of Pentagon accounting methods discovers “doctored” accounts and “epic waste” are an everyday part of the system. Reuters describes the waste and fraud in the system as “billions of dollars” but after reading their account it’s hard
A five year old boy with Leukemia was given a wish by Make-a-Wish foundation. Miles said he wanted to be “batkid” and save the city from villains. Somehow, in a story that feels like a Spielberg movie come to life,
