One Year Later: The Affordable Care Act’s Launch on October 1, 2013––So How Did it Go?

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5. The Most Transparent Administration Puts a Gag Order on HealthCare.gov Testing With the second Obamacare open-enrollment beginning on November 15th, the enrollment system's testing begins with insurance companies this week. Of course, last year the enrollment system testing was a real mess resulting in a humiliating Obamacare launch for the administration. Up until now I wasn't expecting any major problems with HealthCare.gov's consumer enrollment system given all of the...