The MIT mastermind behind the state's health insurance reform law and key adviser to President Obama's plan says the botched rollout and technical issues plaguing signups for the health exchanges that are part of the administration's signature bill threatens to devolve into a crisis if they are not fixed soon.
"I wish it were going a little bit better," said Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the architect of Romneycare, which was the blueprint for Obamacare. "I think it harms the perception."
Healthcare.gov has seen outages and slow response times, preventing people from signing up for the health care exchanges that are part of Obamacare since its launch Oct. 1.
Still, Gruber believes that the difficulties people have had signing up online will be forgotten in six months, as long as the current issues are taken care of soon.
"Right now we're at DEFCON politically problematic," he said.
If the problems persist through November, he said, the consequences will be more significant. There is a Dec. 15 deadline to apply for coverage effective Jan. 1.
"At the end of November we move to genuinely problematic," and it will become a crisis if the issues are not resolved by March 31, when open enrollment closes, he said.
Gruber said he wouldn't be surprised if some technical problems persist but that doesn't mean the online exchanges and the law itself are not working.
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