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Quick, can you hear it? That creaking sound from Washington is the nerves of congressional Democrats in response to the political firestorm raging around the health care law. <\/p>\n
The botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act's vital new marketplaces, coupled with insurers notifying more than a million Americans that their policies were being canceled, raised questions about the administration competence and honesty in selling and implementing President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms. <\/p>\n
Republicans still licking their wounds after last month's failed bid to dismantle the ACA by shutting down the government got a new chance to attack, keeping the issue in national headlines because of the problems rather than a successful launch of the enrollment process. <\/p>\n
Obama apologized on Thursday night in an interview with NBC and said unspecified steps would be taken to help those losing coverage. <\/p>\n
However, some Democrats facing re-election battles next year are joining Republicans in calling for the administration to delay provisions of the 2010 law that survived a Supreme Court challenge last year. <\/p>\n
Here are four reasons why Democrats are nervous: <\/p>\n
Website woes <\/p>\n
The major problem has been the failure of the HealthCare.gov website that was set up to enroll people in new ACA health insurance exchanges starting on Oct. 1. <\/p>\n
Instead of a comprehensive online portal for uninsured people or those who buy individual coverage to readily shop for policies online, the website became a symbol of government failure when most early visitors couldn't log in, got constant error messages, faced long delays and had their profiles disappear. <\/p>\n
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