PrintNovember 27, 2013
The Hindenburg of Health Care
Amid the furor surrounding the disastrous performance of healthcare.gov, no mention has been made about the website's original purpose. In fact, it was never intended to be a gateway where people apply for health care insurance; rather, healthcare.gov was supposed to provide accurate and reliable healthcare insurance information for every state in one centralized location that was accessible to everyone.
The proof is found in the language of the Affordable Care Act itself. Section 1103 of the law mandates the secretary of health and human services to establish a mechanism "in consultation with the states" that includes "an Internet website" where residents and small businesses can "identify affordable health insurance coverage options" in their respective states.
At the time the bill was written and passed into law, President Obama and congressional Democrats assumed that the majority of states would agree to establish health care...(Read Full Article)
