Healthcare.gov Crashes During First Day, Why Massachusetts Never Had This Problem

However, perhaps Bob Laszewski can redeem himself by providing us all some insight from a recent commentary on the bumps ahead

The real indication of just how well Obamacare was administratively launched won’t be known until after January 1. That is when patients will be showing up in doctors’ offices expecting their provider to have them in the computer system. That is when the first premium deductions will come out of peoples’ bank accounts.

Maybe more importantly, that is when the insurance companies will have to deal with an arcane thing called “adds and deletes.” That is when thousands of people’s administrative status will have to be changed every month for any number of reasons out of perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of Obamacare names the insurance company has in their records. If there is a potential for a nasty breakdown in the connections between the exchanges and the insurance companies, it is here.

The only thing I would add, is that the real date to watch is April 1, 2014, as human nature would tell us most individuals will wait to sign up until the very last minute of open enrollment which is March 15, 2014.

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UPDATE: Jeffrey Young over at Huffingtonpost.com has a new piece on the problems he found around the country at state based exchanges, and highlights the few states not currently experiencing problems.