Health Website Deadline Nears, Democrats say "The core of support for the law is still there," but I wonder.

From The Wall Street Journal:

With the clock ticking toward a Saturday deadline, Obama administration officials promise that the HealthCare.gov website will work better. Exactly how much better? That is hard to say.

The measure of success, repeated by an array of administration officials, is that the online marketplace intended to be used by millions of Americans to obtain health insurance would be working smoothly for the "vast majority of users" by Saturday, the last day of November.

 

For now, Democrats on Capitol Hill are waiting to see whether the White House can deliver on its promise.

 

"There's rising concern on the Hill that's been building for a while, but most everyone hopes and expects that things will get turned around once they get the website up and running," he said. "The core of support for the law is still there."

 

Earlier this month, more than three dozen Democrats voted for a GOP plan to change the law to allow insurers to keep selling older health plans that don't comply with the law's mandates for a year.