President Obama: "I am accused of a lot of things but I don't think I am stupid enough to go around saying this is gonna be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website opens if I thought that it wasn't gonna work." What if companies competed to sell health insurance on functioning websites like Amazon or Travelocity?

Recent testimony before Congress has revealed that more than six weeks after launch, the administration is not ready to perform key operations of Obamacare. The backend payment system for delivering subsidies to insurers has not yet been built. There is no way for any of them to pretend they didn't know it wasn't ready.

Background: here is what I wrote for FreedomWorks over a year ago. 

“If everything works perfectly, we’re fine.  But things don’t work perfectly in life, and they certainly don’t work perfectly in IT development” - Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT

“The law is indeed a train wreck with no relief in sight”—House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO)

Today, the state of Arkansas is considering funding for what they call a "private option" for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. It's really just a different way to expand socialized medicine.  The Arkansas legislature should not fund this boondoggle.

The FreedomCast: Episode 7 - Avik Roy on Fixing Our Ailing Health Care System ? On today’s edition of The FreedomCast, Avik Roy, Senior Fellow from the Manhattan Institute and contributor to Forbes.com joins me to discuss the immediate ramifications of Obamacare, and the Jiu jitsu way to fix Medicare.

USA Today, to "ObamaCare resisters": "Get with the program." America's grassroots, to USA Today (and the rest of the Establishment): "NUTS!"

On Thursday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner gave an interview with ABC News in which he famously declared, "Obamacare is the law of the land".  But the battle as they say, has just begun.