God damn it. How the hell do you get blindsided by your own f%$#@*g legislation???

[bklyncowgirl]

64. It was the perfect storm really.

Complicated legislation written largely by the insurance companies who want to insure first of all that they continue to make huge profits meets easily corrupted Congress. A President all too eager to throw off parts objectionable to the insurance companies and the congresscritters they own.

The resulting legislation is far from perfect but still better than nothing. Perhaps if the Obama administration had paid a little more attention to the details of getting it out, beta testing the website until it was perfect and if necessary delaying implementation until they got it right, much of the bad press could have been avoided as people whose policies were cancelled quickly found better replacements at decent prices but that, of course did not happen.

The combination of incompetence and arrogance is really what has turned this into a mess that could have been avoided.