The New York Times has the article California, Here We Come? by Paul Krugman. The excerpt below explains the topic of the piece.

It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster. But what kind of disaster was it? Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally sound policy? Or was it a demonstration that the Affordable Care Act is inherently unworkable?

So how would we  find the answer to the question?

At a time like this, you really want a controlled experiment. What would happen if we unveiled a program that looked like Obamacare, in a place that looked like America, but with competent project management that produced a working website?

Well, your wish is granted. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you California.

I had vaguely heard about John Boner’s demonstration of the failure of the HealthCare.gov web site.  Paul Krugman does refer to it.

…a point inadvertently illustrated a few days ago by John Boehner, the speaker of the House. Mr. Boehner staged a publicity stunt in which he tried to sign up on the D.C. health exchange, then triumphantly posted an entry on his blog declaring that he had been unsuccessful. At the bottom of his post, however, is a postscript admitting that the health exchange had called back “a few hours later,” and that he is now enrolled.

And maybe the transaction would have proceeded faster if Mr. Boehner’s office hadn’t, according to the D.C. exchange, put its agent — who was calling to help finish the enrollment — on hold for 35 minutes, listening to “lots of patriotic hold music.”

I wonder if CBS will decide to cover any of the successes of ACA instead of concentrating on every flaw and glitch exclusively. Damn that liberally biased press. (Sarcasm in that last sentence, if you have trouble detecting it on your own.)