In light of the embarrassing rollout of the Obamacare insurance exchange website, the President Obama appeared in the Rose Garden this week to encourage people to do things the old fashioned way: paper ballots and over the phone. But that isnât working either.
from Politico:
Trying to sign up for Obamacare the old-fashioned way â paper, pen or telephone?
Good luck with that.
With the supposedly state-of-the-art $600 million HealthCare.gov portal malfunctioning, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to go ahead and try to get health coverage by mailing in a paper application, calling the helpline or seeking help from one of the trained âassisters.â
But the truth is those applications â on paper or by phone â have to get entered into the same lousy website that is causing the problems in the first place. And the people processing the paper and calls donât have any cyber secret passage to duck around that. They too have to deal with all the frustrations of HealthCare.gov â full-time.
How incompetent do you have to be to screw up a paper application system? Well, the Obama administration is that incompetent.