From Townhall
By Guy Benson | Aug 04, 2014



As government watchdogs pound the White House’s incompetence and negligence over the implementation and administration of Obamacare, the law has slumped to a new low in the (generally Obamacare-friendly) Kaiser Family Foundation national survey released last week. Administration officials are warning consumers that November’s open enrollment period won’t to go smoothly, predicting “bumps” and higher premiums. The system is still disjointed because, in spite of nearly $850 million already spent on Healthcare.gov, the hub’s “back end” still isn’t built — and isn’t expected to be functional until some time in 2015. This glaring flaw has created data discrepancy headaches left and right, and has opened the door for fraud. Sticker shock and confusion have simultaneously led to some “attrition” among enrollees who purchased plans, but have ceased paying for coverage. And all of this against a backdrop of