Bill Clinton says President Obama should figure out a way to honor his promise that people who like their insurance can keep it. (OZY via Facebook)
If you haven't heard about it yet, President Clinton sounds off on all things Obamacare during a provocative video interview with OZY, an online magazine.
Right off the bat, Clinton affirms his support for the law, despite its problems. "The big lesson is that we're better off with this law than without it," he says.
Still, the rollout of the online insurance marketplaces has been botched, as is plain to see. But, Clinton says, the difficulties aren't all that different from the ones that plagued the Bush administration during the expansion of Medicare in 2005 to include drug coverage. "It was a disaster," Clinton says.
Or, as Julie Rovner recounted in a recent story, "Computers couldn't talk to each other properly. Seniors ended up on endless phone holds. It took several months to work out many of the kinks." But eventually they did get solved, and the benefit became quite popular.
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SOURCE: NPR
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