Obamacare's unimpressive first two weeks

Week before last, I wrote this:

I've always supported the health-care reform law, and I remain mostly optimistic about it (despite this week's tech glitches). But the point I take from [Obamacare convert Butch] Matthews isn't that people will agree with me about stuff once they have the facts. It's that if Obamacare's coverage expansions don't work out as well as we supporters expect them to, we should acknowledge this—rather than going down the endless path of confirmation bias and doubling down on existing loyalties.

In that spirit: I was wrong when I dismissed the problems with the Obamacare exchange rollout as mere "glitches" confined to a parenthetical aside. Clearly the issues are considerable. People are being nonsensically enrolled, unenrolled, re-enrolled, etc. Tech experts point to bad site code and possible larger issues lurking beneath it. The CEO of Aetna—a company that's intimately involved with the exchanges—says that "there's so much wrong, you just don't know what's broken until you get a lot more of it fixed." A former Obama administration official hopes people get fired over the whole thing.