President Obama drew a red line to protect Obamacare. Now the red ink, blood or whatever, has spread to his face

Embarrassing Obama: His expensive health care scheme is not ready for prime time

The website meltdown makes the case that Obamacare isn’t ready for prime time and should be delayed for a year. With time, and a few hundred million more dollars, the Obamacare website will eventually be made workable. If not this year, maybe the next. But America’s health system is far too important to entrust to bureaucrats who lack a persuasive incentive to get the job done right.

President Obama drew a red line, you might say, to protect Obamacare. Now the red ink, blood or whatever, has spread to his face. HealthCare.gov, the website designed to deliver on his promise to simplify health care, is a disaster, and the administration insists the disaster must continue. “The government is now shut down,” Mr. Obama boasted early last week, “but the Affordable Care Act is still open for business.” But it’s not, and no one knows this better than the president himself.

Despite spending $634 million to design and build the national health exchange website, all that just about everyone who tries to log in to learn what Obamacare is about gets is a message such as: “Important: Your account couldn’t be created at this time. The system is unavailable.” The House Energy and Commerce Committee has asked Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, to explain how the money was spent and why the website isn’t working more than a week after launch.

Private industry would never tolerate such incompetence.
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Bureaucrats with a grudge will soon have a wealth of information on ordinary Americans at their fingertips. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical histories and financial data will be stored on Obamacare servers. Who would believe that an agency that can’t run a functional website will provide adequate security?

The government should never have got this information. Medical histories should only be shared by patient and doctor. The legacy of Obamacare is likely to be the destruction of the privacy rights that were once a birthright of Americans.

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