HBO host Bill Maher seems to understand the failures of healthcare.gov, and instead of joining his fellow liberals in praising the site, the “Real Time” host took his shot at slamming the rollout of the Obamacare website.
Maher was joined by MSNBC host Al Sharpton, Blowback author Valerie Plame and liberal filmmaker Michael Moore for his show Friday night. When talk turned to the botched rollout of Obamacare’s exchanges and the failures plaguing healthcare.gov, the panel held nothing back.
“On the one hand, I’m glad that I am not like them, unable to admit a mistake” Maher said, of Democrats unwilling to admit the failure. “I don’t want to be one of the bubble people.”
They went on to discuss the long string of botched projects conducted by CGI — the main contractor tasked with building the site — and the humor behind the U.S. hiring a Canadian company that was fired by its own government.
“So we hired, like, reject Canadians who have their own healthcare,” Moore said. “And then they just messed this up.”
The filmmaker noted how detrimental the failure of healthcare.gov is to encourage Millennials to sign up, as their participation is crucial to the law’s success.
“That’s what’s so sad. Because of all the things to f**k up to that generation, the Internet, the website. It’s like Obama looks like their parents,” Moore said. “How do I … what’s this? AOL? They should change the name to healthcare, instead of .gov, .AOL/friendster/MySpace and a free Commodore 64.”
But of course, there was no shortage of bashing Republicans. Maher noted he never heard President George W. Bush apologize for anything he screwed up and slammed Republican governors for not setting up their own state exchanges, thus jamming the federal marketplace.
Watch Maher and his panel discuss Obamacare’s rollout below, courtesy of Mediaite.
