White House Adviser Can’t Promise ObamaCare Will be Ready for Deadlines

‘You’re not still saying that it’s just a volume question, right?’

Jake Tapper Tries, Fails to Get WH Adviser to Promise Obamacare Will Be Ready for Deadlines (Mediaite)

On Monday, White House Deputy Senior Adviser for Communications and Strategy David Simas joined CNN host Jake Tapper on The Lead to respond to criticism about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Tapper pressed Simas to promise that the ACA’s user portals will be bug-free before either of the looming deadlines to measure the program’s success. Simas initially evaded the question before reassuring Tapper that people who need health insurance will get health insurance.

Simas began by blaming the ACA’s problematic roll-out on the volume of users. Tapper refused to accept this line of argument.

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