{"entry":{"title":"Health Reform's Next Test","date":"Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:00:00 +0000","author":"Paul Starr, American Prospect","description":"
Failure, flop, fiasco—however you describe it, the Obama administration’s rollout of Healthcare.gov will go down as one of the most embarrassing episodes of public mismanagement in recent history. In principle, the defects of the website have nothing to do with the merits of the Affordable Care Act. As a practical matter, however, the two have become intertwined, and the big question is how much damage the flawed rollout will do to the political survival of the ACA as well as those in Congress who voted for it.<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/health-reforms-next-test#.UsaiUPRDuSo"}}