Image courtesy of gatewaypundit.com Posted on 11/10/2014 5:24:20 AM PST by lifeofgrace
Image courtesy of gatewaypundit.com
While the media and pundits focus on the legal threats to Obamacare (which may not really be threats), there’s really a more mundane existential threat to its ever becoming a major part of our society. It doesn’t work. I don’t mean that it’s unworkable in a political or economic sense (although it is in both senses). I mean that it’s flat-out not working to use it—that the crown jewel of Obamacare, healthcare.gov, is a steaming pile of web-based horse manure.
Leave it to the federal government to mismanage any sizable project. I mean they’ve had nearly three years to build a system, with several ill-fated cratered launches, two prime contractors, and its own czar. The site that was originally built by twelve engineers in a garage has become a clown car of dysfunction. Every year we hear the same thing: the site isn’t ready.
“We’re really making sure that that Web site works super well,” President Obama said at a news conference a few days ago. “We’re double- and triple-checking it.”Super well? Any venture capital investor would have thrown the project into the round file years ago. It’s not like signing up for health insurance is rocket science. They’ve managed to cut the application process from 76 screens to “just” 16; this is their major accomplishment. The Washington Post cites evidence that the government is bracing for failure.
Other confidential [Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services] CMS documents show that federal health officials drafted contingency plans involving notices for people who have insurance through the exchanges. The notices provide important information, such as whether enrollees appear eligible for federal subsidies for the coming year.November 15th is this Saturday, and nobody inside the government or its contractors can say with any certainty whether the “healthcare 2.0” launch will work. Regardless of the Supreme Court or the Republican sweep of the elections, the simple fact of bloat, indecision and incompetence may kill Obamacare first.The notices were supposed to be in consumers’ hands by Nov. 1. But by the third week of October, a document says, fewer than 1 million of 7.6 million notices were ready to be mailed or e-mailed.
my lovely wife gets a $235 speeding ticket. I pay on line via debit card. I not only get an immediate receipt from the rmv, but I also check my account and see that the money is withdrawn. I want to be sure its paid.
about 2 weeks later I notice there is $235 more in my account than I anticipated. I call the bank and they tell me the reason is the rmv never sent in their part of the transaction. we’ve all done millions of debits, have you ever seen one where the merchant didn’t do their end?
the government is not even capable of completing a debit.
can you imagine obamacare?
God has created a world in which humans prosper by voluntarily cooperating and serving each other.
Coercive interaction is not only evil,
it is ultimately doomed to fail.
healthcare.gov worked, and is working, as designed. It funneled and continues to funnel vast quantities of taxpayer money to leftwing cronies who live large and donate generously to the Gramscian project that, in turn, enables such things as healthcare.gov to be implemented,; a self-reinforcing system.
Can we assume most of the workers are AA workers like the IRS?
Pray America is waking
Computer systems run as they were designed to run. Period.
That's a terrific term. We've been teamworked and legislated into a loss of identity and freedom.
I see another problem, on this philosophical level. It's dependence. People aren't making medical and life style decisions for themselves. "free" and "covered" comes at a very big price.
“Those payments are handled by third party contractors”
ok, but I’d love to know why, in my entire life, that screw up never, ever happened except with the registry.
<>God has created a world in which humans prosper by voluntarily cooperating and serving each other.<>
Man, that’s good. It is also the truth.
The choices are consent or coercion; we’re plummeting headfirst into the latter.
You’re fortunate you got it back.
Consider those who have paid where it does not go forward and there is no refund.
Be my guest
Yes, I can. Based on dealing with the Social Security Administration, it will be exactly as you portray it.
Zerocare is just that ZERO. It is set up to be another hugh scam on the American tax payer to redistribute the wealth and make his friends and donors rich with thier continued support, laundering the monies back into the party. Oh how I wish for a guy like Mccarthy right now with a legion of men and women who would roust these criminals out of thier holes and into jail
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