{"id":4506,"date":"2013-10-20T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2013-10-20T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:01:38","slug":"almost-douthat-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4506","title":{"rendered":"Almost, Douthat, almost. . .."},"content":{"rendered":"

But it seemed that way because it was hard to imagine the Obama White House botching the design and execution of its national health care exchange. Building Web sites, mastering the Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this is what Team Obama does!<\/p>\n

Except this time Team Obama didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Like the Bush administration in Iraq, the White House seems to have invaded the health insurance marketplace with woefully inadequate postinvasion planning, and let the occupation turn into a disaster of hack work and incompetence. Right now, the problems with the exchange Web site appear to be systemic \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a mess on the front end, where people are supposed to shop for plans, and also a thicket at the back end, where insurers are supposed to process applications.<\/p>\n

The disaster can presumably be fixed. As Cohn pointed out on Friday, many of the state-level exchanges are working better than the federal one, and somewhere there must be a tech-world David Petraeus capable of stabilizing HealthCare.gov. And the White House has some time to work with: weeks before the end-of-year enrollment rush, and months before the mandate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s penalty is supposed to be levied. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, it’s a disaster<\/em><\/strong> almost like Wolfie and J-Paul’s destruction of a nation, loss of millions<\/del> billions of dollars, and bringing about an insurgency against the US occupation. <\/p>\n

Almost, Douthat, almost. . ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But it seemed that way because it was hard to imagine the Obama White House botching the design and execution of its national health care exchange. Building Web sites, mastering the Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this is what Team Obama does! Except this time Team Obama didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Like the Bush administration in Iraq, the White House seems … Continue reading Almost, Douthat, almost. . ..<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,581,141],"tags":[732,353,1969],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ross-douthat-op-ed-writers-sources","category-specious-comparisons","tag-argument-by-analogy","tag-ross-douthat","tag-weak-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}