Over 40 times the Republicans in the House voted to defund the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and they went as far as to shut down the Federal government over it. It hurt the Republicans in the polls, and we’ll see how much it hurt the party in 2014.

I know I’ve written this a few times before, but the Affordable Care Act bill passed the Senate in December 2009 by a vote of 60-39. In March 2010 the House passed the bill 219-212. The President signed the bill. Republican Mitt Romney ran his presidential campaign base partly on the fact that he would repeal Obamacare. Romney lost. Obamacare was challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court and upheld.

Is Obamacare perfect? Heck no. It can be improved. Republicans and Democrats should work together to make it better. The President has signaled his desire to work with anyone to make the Affordable Care Act better. Some have said that a few people are losing their healthcare because of Obamacare, and, if that’s true, that would be a great place to start making improvements.

In what can only be termed as an “epic fail,” the Obama Administration rolled out their Affordable Care Act website with much fanfare and it crashed. It was like a rocket rising a few feet off the launch pad and exploding type of bad.

I think the reason the website failed was because so many folks in the media and from the right wing were accessing the site just to look for errors. It was either that or former President George W. Bush’s fault.   Continue reading →