Fighting the 'spin' war over Obamacare

Commentary: claims are distorted, but GOP is displaying message discipline 

By Wendell Potter
6:00 am, December 2, 2013 Updated: 11:13 am, December 2, 2013


Now that November is history, will the Obamacare website work flawlessly from now on? Or, as the president has said, will it at least work for the “vast majority” of people who need to buy insurance on their own?

We will know in a few days if, as administration officials pledged last week, most of the problems that plagued HealthCare.gov were actually resolved. They predicted that at least 90 percent of folks seeking to enroll in a health plan online would be able to do so by the first of December.