ACA Introduction

The introduction of the Affordable Care Act certainly hasn't gone well in the early days. 

The Feds picked a clearly unqualified firm to set up and run the web site.  Knowledgeable software engineers were horrified to learn the technical design choices that they made.

After some time now, the signup process is now going much better, and the naysayers have less to complain about.  I suspect that once a large consort of people have signed up, that it will be politically impossible to repeal it.


 I think it was unfortunate that Pres. Obama made the ill-advised statement to the effect that if you have a plan, you can keep it.  Unfortunately he didn't consider the possibility that insurance companies might take the opportunity to cancel their policies, now that their employees can get coverage on their own.

The people that I have spoken to have told me that the premiums for similar coverage under ACA that they have been paying previously are not more expensive, but less.  That fact hasn't been well reported.