Jackie Calmes published an article titled "Urging Patience, Obama Says Problems With Health Care Sites Reflect Demand" in The New York Times on October 5, 2013. The issue at hand is a debate questioning why Obama's health care enrollment, which opened on Tuesday, has experienced so many technical glitches. Obama has made several statements claiming the the technical issues are actually a good response and a result of how popular the demand for health care is. Others, however, are foreshadowing the technical glitches as a symbol of the failure expected within the program. House Republicans immediately began to demand that the "health care law be defunded or delayed" as the government experienced a shut down, also taking place on Tuesday.
Since the United States is considered a mixed economy as well as a market economy, we practice both private individuals and the government directing our economy. With this being said, the citizens of the United States have a right to health care and the government has a role to play in that. Obama has been fighting for Obamacare to be available to the mass and to ensure all Americans have the health care they desire. This is why so many people are questioning the fact that there have been so many issues on the website that Americans are supposed to be using to enroll for healthcare. The public has kept their word and followed through with their enrollment, but has Obamacare kept their word and ensured health care for all those attempting to enroll? We are observing tension rise as Republicans use this incident to articulate the need for a delay in Obamacare, and Democrats respond with the ensuring that the technical disturbances proves Obamacare will be a huge success. Have the individuals been let down by the government within these last few weeks?
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