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To: Bilow who wrote (750328)	10/30/2013 9:01:00 AM
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Hi all; Mother Jones reports on the bad design of Obamacare and the problems it's likely to face: Can We Blame Obamacare's Rollout Problems on a Kludgy Design? Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, October 23, 2013 Mike Konczal argues today that the biggest problems with the rollout of the Obamacare website aren't really software issues at all. They're mostly due to the nature of Obamacare itself: The first has to do with means-testing the program....The second issue is that the means-testing is necessary to link individuals up with individual private insurers....A third issue, and a major reason this is freaking people out, is that the first two problems could introduce adverse selection....And the fourth and final issue is that the federal government has had to pick up so much slack from rebelling states that didn’t want to implement health care. In other words, if we had a simpler, single-payer system, we could have avoided most of the rollout problems. "Smarter conservatives who are thinking several moves ahead," writes Konczal, "understand that this failed rollout is a significant problem for conservatives. Because if all the problems are driven by means-testing, state-level decisions and privatization of social insurance, the fact that the core conservative plan for social insurance is focused like a laser beam on means-testing, block-granting and privatization is a rather large problem." ... motherjones.com -- Carl