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From CNN/Money:Many consumers looking to sign up for Obamacare health coverage weren’t making it very far Tuesday morning.
Enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges has begun, with the federal and most state exchange sites unveiling their “Get Started” buttons. But widespread technical glitches plagued the exchanges.
Also see
Washington Post: “Signing up for ObamaCare: 'This Was Totally Disappointing”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: “Hiccup at Florida ACA Exchange Site”
The Hill: “Technical Problems Plague Launch of ObamaCare”
Washington Examiner: “The Glitchy, Error-Filled Misadventures of Creating an Account on HealthCare.gov”
Superior Telegram: “Navigators Not Ready for Health Care Rollout.”
Associated Press: “Glitches Hit NY’s Online Health Insurance Website”
CBS Baltimore: “Maryland Health Exchange Experiences Glitch In First Hours Of Launch”
Baltimore Sun: “Maryland health insurance exchange stumbles out of the gate”
Lexington Herald-Leader: “Glitches Hamper Access to Kentucky’s ObamaCare Website”
New York Post: “ObamaCare Rollout Riddled with Glitches, Delays”
Pennsylvania Patriot News: “ObamaCare Exchange Serving Pennsylvania Serves Up Early Glitches”
Weekly Standard: “ObamaCare’s Minnesota, Connecticut, and Oregon Exchanges Filled With Glitches”
WBS Radio, Atlanta, GA: “Healthcare exchange websites fail security tests”
MagazineForbes: “Healthcare.gov Crashes During First Day, Why Massachusetts Never Had This Problem”
Chicago Tribune: “Computer glitches, overloads hit health care exchanges”
Connecticut Post: “Slow web site, frustration vex health exchange”
…excesses and abuses, especially in recent years, have provoked very harsh criticisms of the Welfare State, dubbed the “Social Assistance State”. Malfunctions and defects in the Social Assistance State are the result of an inadequate understanding of the tasks proper to the State. Here again the principle of subsidiarity must be respected: a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.
By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending. In fact, it would appear that needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them and who act as neighbours to those in need.
And this little glitch today is emblematic of the problems of excess centralization.
Enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges has begun, with the federal and most state exchange sites unveiling their “Get Started” buttons. But widespread technical glitches plagued the exchanges.
Also see
Washington Post: “Signing up for ObamaCare: 'This Was Totally Disappointing”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: “Hiccup at Florida ACA Exchange Site”
The Hill: “Technical Problems Plague Launch of ObamaCare”
Washington Examiner: “The Glitchy, Error-Filled Misadventures of Creating an Account on HealthCare.gov”
Superior Telegram: “Navigators Not Ready for Health Care Rollout.”
Associated Press: “Glitches Hit NY’s Online Health Insurance Website”
CBS Baltimore: “Maryland Health Exchange Experiences Glitch In First Hours Of Launch”
Baltimore Sun: “Maryland health insurance exchange stumbles out of the gate”
Lexington Herald-Leader: “Glitches Hamper Access to Kentucky’s ObamaCare Website”
New York Post: “ObamaCare Rollout Riddled with Glitches, Delays”
Pennsylvania Patriot News: “ObamaCare Exchange Serving Pennsylvania Serves Up Early Glitches”
Weekly Standard: “ObamaCare’s Minnesota, Connecticut, and Oregon Exchanges Filled With Glitches”
WBS Radio, Atlanta, GA: “Healthcare exchange websites fail security tests”
MagazineForbes: “Healthcare.gov Crashes During First Day, Why Massachusetts Never Had This Problem”
Chicago Tribune: “Computer glitches, overloads hit health care exchanges”
Connecticut Post: “Slow web site, frustration vex health exchange”
…excesses and abuses, especially in recent years, have provoked very harsh criticisms of the Welfare State, dubbed the “Social Assistance State”. Malfunctions and defects in the Social Assistance State are the result of an inadequate understanding of the tasks proper to the State. Here again the principle of subsidiarity must be respected: a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.
By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending. In fact, it would appear that needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them and who act as neighbours to those in need.
Pope Bl John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 48
Bishop Nickless, Archbishop Naumann / Bishop Finn, Bishop Aquila, and others have come out with statements supporting that position, as well.
And this little glitch today is emblematic of the problems of excess centralization.
