Roy Blunt: “I thank my friends who have been here talking about this. Both Senator Thune and Senator Barrasso spent so much time on…”

“I thank my friends who have been here talking about this. Both Senator Thune and Senator Barrasso spent so much time on figuring out ways this could work better and obviously it is not working as well as people hoped it would. There is a series of headlines I saw on my desk today. CNN Money said: ``Were ObamaCare applications accurate? Who knows?'' Reuters says, ``Obama care exchange is not properly verifying applicant data.'' The New York Post: ``Obamacare data errors could jeopardize coverage for millions.'' The Washington Times: ``ObamaCare markets foul up eligibility and verification parts in applications.'' The New York Times: ``Eligibility for health insurance was not properly checked audit finds.'' Wall Street Journal: ``Reports Fault Controls of Health Exchanges.'' This is simply not working. It wasn't as though there was a lot of time to make it work either. It was from early in 2010 until the law was implemented in the end of 2013, and there is one problem after another, which is a good indication of what happens when the government tries to do more than the government is capable of doing, when the government tries to prescribe all kinds of decisions that would be so much better left to individuals as long as the government has done what it could to ensure a more aggressive, active, competitive marketplace. But that is not what happened here.…”