User blog comment:Dustyfootwarrior/The US government be ruining this country/@comment-3417255-20140716060345

Yeah... that whole conman core, er... common core junk isn't very helpful in a number of manners. It's not just the teachers that have to stick to the standards, students who use other methods of getting the correct answer are also being degraded and punished for not following instructions. Instructors have actually failed students over this, and have stunted educational growth and potential within various school systems. All while using horribly skewed reports in order to make the program a success.

As for the Affordable Care Act, I can personally tell you it doesn't work. While there's suppose to be things made available to make health insurance more affordable for people with lower income, even with those things I would be forced to pay around $220 a month for the bare bones plan that in all reality covers absolutely nothing. As a note, before all the ACA crap, I could have picked up a plan that would have at least covered doctor visits for a little over $100 a month.

Also, the healthcare marketplace constantly lost my information, which made the entire process more of a problem than it needed to be. As for authentication, that was handled by a third party company, and they weren't even able to verify my identity. And with all the tech issues and lack of communication the phone operators had with the other departments, can somebody please clean up this train wreck?

Oh, but the best part of all of this was the process for verifying your identity. To do this, they preform a mandatory credit check. This is done by an outside company, in which if you have no credit... you're screwed! Oh, and given how that company was hacked shortly after the cut off date for enrollment... yeah. Any and everyone who dealt with the healthcare marketplace in any way shape or form just had their information stolen. This also affected people who enrolled via phone, or a third party, given how the site was suppose to act like a database to make the process easier for the consumer.

Yeah, not bad for a site slapped together and rushed out the door by a company that had little to no experience in dealing with these things... you know, as opposed to the number of other companies that could have submitted bids to get the job done, if only they had allowed for such a thing to happen...