Obama Administration Declares "Mission Accomplished" On Healthcare.gov or Something

"We have met the goal," they announce.

Apparently the goal consisted of a website that still doesn't fully work. Kudos!

Today is the Obama administration’s self-imposed deadline for Healthcare.gov to be “fixed.”

After initially promising a complete fix of the broken Web site by “the end of November,” the White House has incrementally lowered expectations, moved the goalposts and backpedaled on earlier promises as the depth and intractability of the site’s problems became apparent during November’s “tech surge.”

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HealthCare.gov team claims victory: ‘We have met the goal’

The Obama administration claimed victory Sunday for making HealthCare.gov workable for the vast majority of users….

But even during their victory dance itself they were still moving the goalposts and backpedaling further:

The agency that oversees HealthCare.gov said “we believe we have met the goal” of making the system navigable for most people, but cautioned that more problems may lie ahead.

“Dramatic progress has been made,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated in a report released Sunday morning. “[But] there is more work to be done to continue to improve and enhance the website.”

I guess we'll have to see if five million people, who've lost their insurance due to the operation of Obamacare and now are thrown to the mercy of the exchanges, end up agreeing that Obama has "met the goal."

Read the whole thing. Zombie notes that the "goal" has been "met" by abandoning many aspects of the original "goal." Minor little things, like actually enabling people to use the site to actually deliver a payment to the insurers.

posted by Ace at 05:03 PM

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