Harry Reid: We need to extend the ObamaCare deadline because...some people don't know how to use the Internet
True enough. And most of those people work as web designers for HHS.
Never mind the hubris needed to blame public ignorance for the most epic website fail in Internet history. He's surely right, to whatever small extent, that some older people who've never been online and have no younger friends or family members to help will have trouble navigating the website. (Although, ironically, the story he tells below about the 63-year-old woman makes it sound like she did know what she was doing but was, alas, thwarted in the end by another Healthcare.gov glitch.) Since the potential problem of Internet ignorance was apparent from the day ObamaCare was passed, though, why should anyone need extra time past the statutory deadline to sign up? The White House had six months to reach those people through speeches, TV ads, door-knocking, etc.
Reid could, if he wanted, cite the website disaster in October and November as grounds for giving people more time, but he's not doing that. And even if he did, it'd make no sense: As I've said before, anyone who was gung ho to enroll back then and gave up in technological frustration surely would have returned to the site by now to try again. If near-seniors are trying and failing to sign up through Healthcare.gov, the problem isn't their ignorance, it's the White House's failure to identify them in advance and give them an easy alternative method. You'd think a guy who ran a presidential campaign that was famously brilliant at "microtargeting" would have been all over that. As it is, it's another reminder that problems with O-Care's rollout go way beyond the website.Also read:
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