White House Warns Allies About Obamacare Website

“White House officials, fearful that the federal health care website may again be overwhelmed this weekend, have urged their allies to hold back enrollment efforts so the insurance marketplace does not collapse under a crush of new users,” the New York Times reports.

“At the same time, administration officials said Tuesday that they had decided not to inaugurate a big health care marketing campaign planned for December out of concern that it might drive too many people to the still-fragile HealthCare.gov.”

Wall Street Journal: “After setting a deadline to fix the website, administration officials
have offered largely inexact measures of success, expressed with varying
degrees of confidence. That has prompted Republicans to accuse the
White House of moving the goal posts, making it difficult to determine
whether the objective has been met. Meanwhile, some Democrats have
fretted that even a vague but optimistic goal might have been too much
to promise.”