Story highlights Isn't this something the Obama administration could have seen coming?

The White House would like to see Congress take up a "public option"

Washington (CNN) The official numbers out this week on how much more Obamacare premiums for many will cost this coming year stunned people from coast to coast.

In Arizona, for example, the average hike will be 116%, while the national average will be 22%.

The spikes spawned a fresh storm of criticism from Republicans who, feeling vindicated, labeled Obamacare a "disaster" and a "trainwreck."

But why the element of surprise? Isn't this something the Obama administration, with all of its projections and analysis, could have seen coming?

Similar questions were also asked surrounding the trouble-plagued launch of the Affordable Care Act back in 2013, when the flood of enrollees crashed government servers.

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