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Originally Posted by janmcn
You are correct that Medicare has been around for almost 50 years, compared with 11 days for the Affordable Care Act, so perhaps we should give the ACA more time to work the bugs out.
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Wrong. ACA was signed into law in 2010 and the first exchange was set up in 2011.
"Hawaii was the first state to announce its intention to run its own insurance exchange, and the Hawaii Health Connector was established in August 2011."
(source linked in prior post above)
If Congress and administration had any sense, they would have contracted with Citibank, American Express, or some other such giant financial institution that already operates
worldwide online networks to do the IT work for ACA online.
And by the way, no bank, investment firm or stock exchange would be allowed by federal/state banking regulators to put such a rickety monstrosity of a web network out there online for consumers. It would be shut down by government regulators, and fast, for CONSUMER PROTECTION.