Regardless, it's not as though bigger problems make it so that smaller but still very large problems should be ignored. Similarly, one does not need to decide between foreign policy mistakes, nsa wiretaps, and bailouts to be angry about, you can be angry about all of them, and hold government officials responsible for all of them.
Besides which, healthcare.gov is a cornerstone of the affordable care act, which is a multi-trillion dollar endeavor.
Yet, it was "deem and passed" and here we are. Power to the people?
Wait.
Coming from the "extreme right wing" side of the political spectrum, I assure you that few of us considered any "severely conservative" promise from Hairpiece Q. Motherf----- credible. The eGOP managed to hand us the single worst possible candidate in every way to run against Obamacare.
Sorry, it just isn't.
The website has major problems. Shocking.
Sometimes, we should get out of our engineering bubble; it would put a perspective on things. It'll be fixed, but people will eventually forget about it.
Why not bring up the Teapot Dome Scandal? The Trail of Tears? The Mexican American War? Any number of other examples of Government Fail?
What you're trying to do is like a guy getting pulled over for speeding who grouses that the officer should be out catching burglars and muggers. It doesn't work in that situation either, as a rule.
If this is what it takes to get to single payer eventually, so be it. I expect the road to be bumpy.
If you think this disaster is going to make it easier to "get to single payer", you're dreaming.
I'm 30, and I would bet large sums of money we'll have single payer by the time I'm 40.
I would bet large sums of money that this disaster has killed single payer for at least a generation, if not longer.