Why is ObamaCare such a hot steaming mess? Because Obama cares more about campaigning than governing (though he does like the part of governing where he can push his political enemies around).
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The Republicans didn’t sabotage the health exchanges. Obama did.
This train wreck was perfectly predictable, and many predicted it.
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It’s ObamaCar.
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USA Today: “…an inexcusable mess.”
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Why would Obama want to insure his signature achievement works well?
It is suprising they didn’t plan for the demand considering how they keep telling everyone how popular it is.
This isn’t just a train wreck. It’s a high-speed rail train wreck.
When you’re an Alinskyite (and didn’t Saul Alinsky’s son say that Obama had learned Dad’s lessons better than he [Sonny] had?), isn’t life all about endless campaigning? That is, “campaigning” in a military sense? It’s eternal war against one Emanuel Goldstein after another, until, presumably, Utopia is reached. (At which time Cloward-Piven will kick in and it starts all over again.)
From the USA Today Article:
“Over the first four days the new online health insurance exchanges were open last week, more than 8 million people visited them, according to the Obama administration. At the very least, this casts doubt on the Republican claim that Americans hate Obamacare and want it repealed. It seems millions of people desperately want the coverage the law will allow them to get, regardless of their medical histories.”
The Mars Pathfinder Rover landed on Mars July 4th 1997. By the end of August, the Mars Pathfinder website had recorded 650 million hits, or more than 10 million a day. That was in a day when web usage was a fraction of what it is today, and most people still had dial-up. If 8 million visits in four days is indicative of people “separately” wanting anything, then 40 million in the same time period must indicate universal desperation for us to go to Mars.
At best, it meant that a small number of Americans went to the site for some reason — possibly curiosity.
Again, why would anyone want to put life or death decisions into the hands of an entity so incompetent. It would be like selecting the surgeon who had the most to drink to perform one’s heart surgery.
Ah, but since it’s such a train wreck and few people can afford the new insurance premiums, the answer will obviously be to eliminate health insurance entirely and have the government pay for healthcare from general taxation.
Yes, the government may have completely screwed it up, but if you give them more money and more power, they’ll get it right next time. Honest.
Create a problem, then propose the ‘solution’ you wanted all along. It’s the lefty way.
Yes, the government may have completely screwed it up, but if you give them more money and more power, they’ll get it right next time. Honest.
Yes, the policy of failing forward. The healthcare provided on the indian reservations is poor. The healthcare provided by the VA isn’t very good. The healthcare provided for the active duty military ranges from terrible to acceptable depending on where you’re located (hint: it tends to get better the closer you are to Washington DC). Medicaid and Medicare are rife with fraud and inconsistent management. And now the rollout of ObamaCare is looking like a failure. While some people are getting lower prices (primarily those with preexisting conditions), others are getting reamed or finding they’re losing their existing coverage altogether. Some are losing their jobs or having their hours cut because of ObamaCare. Every promise Obama made is proving a lie. The Obama administration will throw whatever money they can at the problem to make it appear successful but it was doomed from the start by poor legislation and worse implementation. So, let’s use that experience to go single payer!
It’s like having an inept relative that you hire as a handyman because he can’t get a job anywhere else. He proceeds to botch every job you give him. Based on that experience, he wants to build your next house. Who else but a Democrat thinks this makes sense?
The site has glitches, and isn’t very fast, but it’s still more convenient and less intrusive than applying for insurance used to be. The last time I applied I had to answer dozens of health questions, and fill out pages and pages of forms. And at the end they wouldn’t even sell me insurance!
Healthcare.gov is a breeze by comparison, and they not only didn’t turn me away, they offered me much better premiums than I’m getting on the group market.