Megan McArdle, Columnist

No Sign of Plan B for Obamacare

The administration's lack of a Plan B for Obamacare is becoming painfully obvious.
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The House Oversight Committee held hearings yesterday on the Affordable Care Act's health-care exchange website with actual Information Technology people, who provided some of the most interesting and informative exchanges to date.

What we didn't learn: whether the site will be ready by Nov. 30, as the administration has promised. (This Washington Postpiece suggests not: "software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised, according to an official with knowledge of the project.")