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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 05:46 PM Apr 2014

Vulnerable Dem Senator Finds Way To Tout Obamacare Enrollment, Trash Obamacare Rollout

TOM KLUDT – APRIL 2, 2014, 2:23 PM EDT

Democrats want to talk about Obamacare's enrollment surge, Republicans want to talk about the law's troubled past and Mark Begich wants to talk about both.

With the White House celebrating the seven million enrollment milestone on Tuesday, the vulnerable Democratic senator from Alaska provided a reminder of the administration's failures.

“I think that number would have been even higher if the administration hadn’t dropped the ball on managing the website and larger rollout,” Begich said, “but 7 million people have access to quality, affordable care and are in control of their own health care choices. I know its hard to remember with all the political back and forth, but that was the goal all along.”
Conservatives aren't quite ready to stop talking about the glitches that plagued the website's autumn launch either.


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Vulnerable Dem Senator Finds Way To Tout Obamacare Enrollment, Trash Obamacare Rollout (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2014 OP
I don't have a problem with this approach ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2014 #1
So? He's correct about that Warpy Apr 2014 #2
 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
1. I don't have a problem with this approach ...
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 05:58 PM
Apr 2014

if a Democratic candidate feels compelled to talk about the ACA in a negative sense ... talk about stuff from the past.

Warpy

(111,338 posts)
2. So? He's correct about that
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 05:59 PM
Apr 2014

The initial rollout was a disaster. However, what needs to be stressed is how quickly the mess was fixed.

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