Posted on 11/13/2013 12:41:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The launch of the health exchanges has produced diverse images of failure: blank screens, improperly released Social Security numbers; a White House official undermining congressional oversight on September 6, 2013, with a phony security certification; and political appointees blaming their failures on unexpected enthusiasm for the exchanges—a fiction reminiscent of Cold War Soviets touting food lines as evidence of enthusiasm for a five-year agricultural plan causing widespread starvation.
One of the most striking recent images was that of a shaken president twice reciting the toll-free number for the exchanges. He did so to encourage frustrated Americans to abandon HealthCare.gov temporarily as he made the unfulfillable promise that contractors would “fix” in just one month a sick system that took 42 months to metastasize into its current form. It is an image to remember because you will see it again when President Obama acknowledges he cannot honor that promise.
One of the nicest and most competent members of the Obama administration, former acting OMB director Jeffrey Zients, has been tasked with fixing HealthCare.gov in one month by leading a tech “surge” (I’ll leave the ironies of that phrase alone). Poor Jeff is set up for inevitable failure. While the HHS definition of “fix” will surely become whatever level of functionality its armies of contractors have achieved by December 1, any claim of a “fix” will haunt this administration.
Due to inept planning in the first two years of implementation, HealthCare.gov became a patchwork of hastily constructed systems that contractors then even more hastily stitched together. To meet their deadlines, these contractors, with the blessing of their political overseers, cut corners on key security features....
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
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Wrong. Now that the PPACA is called “obamacare” there is nothing Obama won’t do to ensure the legacy. His ego simply can’t allow he ever admits defeat. He will launch nukes to protect obamacare and his ego.
Two pages? No big deal. I just read the title and check for pictures or short videos.
It is my impression that the act can not just be called off, and everyone back to normal. Many have had there insurance canceled and can not get it back. Am I missing something?
You can’t ‘euthanize’ something that never came to life.
HealthCare.gov is a corpse that hasn’t yet stopped twitching.
I believe the cancellations do not take effect until 1/1/14, so it the bill can be stopped from being implemented now, there is time to reset.
The reason the insurance plans have been cancelled is because of Obamacare. Get rid of Obamacare and you get rid of the reason for canceling the plans. I think the plans can be restored when we flush the Obamacare turd.
“I believe the cancellations do not take effect until 1/1/14”
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If true, that is good news. No doubt, however, there will still be plenty of confusion and gnashing of teeth.
The article says the HHS system doesn’t have its certifications yet. That means it was released in violation of the law (FISMA), which among other things is supposed to protect us from losing our personal information in federal systems.
Waiting... on... Congress...
But why would the insurance company reissue the old cheaper policy? They need the healthy to pay higher rates to make up for losses on the pre-existing condition type people.
plus you have people now added to Medicaid. Good luck taking away their freebies.
Because without the forced participation of the young, there will be no premium money to pay for the coarse mandates.
The insurance companies will lose their shirts. They are slowly comprehending that they have bet on the wrong horse.
It is in everyone’s interest to stop this train wreck from happening.
I don’t care how it gets stopped, as long as it gets stopped-—now.
>> Jeffrey Zients, has been tasked with fixing HealthCare.gov in one month
A “typo”, mind you...
Take note of December 15.
If reports of “enrollees” are correct, thousands of people have a plan waiting in their shopping cart for final purchase.
If it were me, I’d part with my money at the last minute and that is what those thousands of insurance shoppers will do.
Come Dec. 15 and the system will be avalanched.
I have stated this before. The impending death of O-care has less to do with a website than the act itself. Healthcare.gov is merely a symptom. The law is unenforceable, and the constant rule changes will have lawyers drooling by next year. Just wait till some of the millions losing coverage start suing those insurance companies. That rolling stone will turn into a fast moving bolder by mid 2014.
My source say O-care is already dead. It’s just a matter of dems figuring how to avoid blame... and hanging that POS the bill is named after out to dry IS a viable option.
That is the consensus among conservatives. But. IMHO that sells us short. There has to be a way - expensively, no doubt - to reconstruct the risk pools which were atomized when the companies were forced to give up their customers by canceling all those policies.Something along the lines of requiring all insurance companies to either reinstate all the policies or to put the risk pool up for auction, so that any ins. co. could bid for the risk pool en bloc. And somehow compensating companies for the loss of policyholders who have joined other risk pools in the interim, and would be at least temporarily snatched away from them..
You know, something only slightly unconstitutional. At least, as compared with seizing GM, giving it to the UAW, and closing all the dealerships owned by Republicans . . .
Is anyone ready for a Parliamentary system in which a vote of “No confidence” can overturn the administration and require a new snap election yet? I’m not sure I am either, but the system we have now for impeaching a scoundrel is clearly broken. Of course, the central problem in the American polity is the assumption that half the electorate, at least, is systematically able morally and intellectually to avoid electing a demagogue in the first place. When the public is in fact being led by the demagoguery machine known as the Associated Press and its membership.The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.And as is only too manifest by the routine cries of conservative outrage over “bias in the media,” the AP is a cabal of demagogues who systematically practice on the credulity of the gullible - that is, on the credulity of all of us, only too much of the time.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors.. . . which explains the behavior of the press when its membership becomes united and self-confirming. And that is the only possible result of the Associated Press and any other wire service, which is nothing if not an ongoing and continual virtual meeting of its membership:People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)
Some provisions were implemented years ago, such as coverage for children up to 26 years of age. I'm sure there will be some implications, but not as dire as what we currently face.
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