Democrats want to talk about Obamacare’s enrollment surge, Republicans want to talk about the law’s troubled past and Mark Begich wants to talk about both.
With the White House celebrating the seven million enrollment milestone on Tuesday, the vulnerable Democratic senator from Alaska provided a reminder of the administration’s failures.
“I think that number would have been even higher if the administration hadn’t dropped the ball on managing the website and larger rollout,” Begich said, “but 7 million people have access to quality, affordable care and are in control of their own health care choices. I know its hard to remember with all the political back and forth, but that was the goal all along.”
Conservatives aren’t quite ready to stop talking about the glitches that plagued the website’s autumn launch either.
Amid reports of millions people signing up for health care, Fox News pundit Sean Hannity was still ranting Tuesday about how the federal government “couldn’t even get a website to work!”
It’s a talking point that will not die as long as it continues to get tossed around by Republicans and red state Democrats irrespective of any developments.
