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I think that the Obamacare website fiasco has done more to perpetuate the destructive belief that government is inherently bad than have the actual purveyors of that belief. CMV

The Tea Party and conservatives in general have always been pushers of the ideas that government can't do anything right, that the free market does just fine, and that Obamacare in general is the devil come to eat our children.  The recent unpleasantness is not only indicative of mind-shattering incompetence, but has done long-term damage to the audacious idea that government can help people at all.  This last consequence is what angers me the most, followed closely by the apparent incompetence and dereliction of duty by all involved, including the President himself.  And my answer to "he can't be everywhere" is that this was his signature program, his baby.  If he, of all people, the guy that brought campaigning and some government websites into the 21st century, can't make this work....well, that's what other people, en masse, are thinking, and it will infect government-as-a-force for good for a long time.  Anyway, change my view.  Please.
gpt
Healthcare.gov isn't *the* Obamacare website, despite what everyone's been saying. Each state was allowed to set up its own healthcare exchange, with federal funds. In fact, they were encouraged to do so; states that run their own exchanges have more control over healthcare policy within their state. And in the states that *did* set up their own exchanges, there aren't nearly as many technical glitches.

It's just that, for some reason, over half of the states decided they didn't want to do that. So the responsibility for setting up the exchanges in each of those 27 states fell to the federal government. More importantly, these are the states where the idea you're talking about is already very prevalent. If they really didn't think the federal government could do healthcare right, why didn't they take some federal money and do it themselves?