Zeke Emanuel: ObamaCare Site Is Going in the Right Direction

Ezekiel Emanuel: ObamaCare Website 'Going in the Right Direction' (RealClearPolitics)

DAVID GREGORY: Zeke, you wrote, in an op-ed some weeks ago that this was the time, "Thanksgiving weekend, this deadline was here." Is it good enough progress?

DR. EZEKIEL EMANUEL: I think it's good enough progress. Clearly, just like Google and Facebook and all the internet sites are constantly tweaking their sites, constantly improving them, this one still has a ways to go. But it is certainly working reasonably well. I, in particular, want the "shop and compare" to improve. The White House has said that it's going to improve either later tonight or tomorrow. That's a key area where people can just go and see what's available, what the prices are. It hasn't been working that way. But they're promising to have it improve.

So I think actually we are going in the right direction. And for the first time, and most importantly, we actually have effective management overseeing. We have an integrator that's independent and that seems to be very effective in Optum as opposed to have to CMS run it.