the obama care rollout has not been an easy or smooth one. rollouts tend to go like that. before world war ii, there were problems for the brand-new social security board. they had to figure out a way to enroll 26 million workers into the program in less than a year, without computers. one of the big problems in the social security rollout back then was that lots of people had the same name. how do we handle that? it was a huge problem back in the day for social security. ultimately, they figured it out, so you having a unique number, didn't have to depend on you having a unique name. anyway, they figured it out, and now, social security, it works. some conservatives hate it on ideological grounds, but nobody says it doesn't function as a program. when medicare became law in the summer of 1965, here's a glitch for you. turns out that more than 45% of the people born between 1890 and 1920, so people who at the time were between 45 years old and 75 years old, almost half of them could not verify their age, because they didn't have birth certificates.