Posted on 11/18/2013 9:09:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
*President Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation, The Affordable Care Act, is on the ropes. Let’s call it for what it is. Those who never wanted it, and those who have spent every waking hour trying to stop it, got the break they needed with the website registration failures.
The sign-up delays were truly problematic as the public’s excitement to enroll exceeded the government’s capacity to handle the requests—a point that’s being missed in the press, by the way. There has never been such an immediate demand for a government enrollment program in the history of the internet age. There was no way to measure capacity for such a demand. But critics don’t see that. All they (and Congress) wanted to focus on was that the website didn’t work. Since when has any government program worked perfectly? But it’s Obamacare, so…
The machinations of implementation not withstanding, the universal health care policy that has universally become known as “Obamacare,” was still praised and highly favored—despite its detractors. Some health care beats no health care any day of the week for 47 million people. The latest problem now has nothing to do with those who don’t have any health care. It’s a problem that affects those that do have health care. This latest controversy is threatening to cold cock this landmark legislation. Why? Because it goes to something the Republicans have been trying to get at for five years, President Obama’s credibility. The President, almost single-handedly sold the nation universal health care. He rammed it through on his popularity, his party’s control of Congress and his change agenda that the people bought wholesale.
The honeymoon period for Barack Obama was better than any President in recent history for him to be able to accomplish what Presidents over the past 100 years couldn’t. The problem may have been that the President sold it too good. The policy made sense when little in Washington makes sense. You choose your provider. The market competes for you. If you have health insurance you can keep your current provider. This is the part that has the President hemmed up. But it made sense at the time, and the President gave his word on it.
Well, turns out, that’s not the way it’s playing out. Public policy has intended consequences, and unintended consequences. People being dropped from their health care plans while they considered their health plan options, is an unintended consequence unforeseen.
Of course, detractors had nearly three years to figure out a way to deconstruct Obamacare. This was the angle the insurers pursued. If you beat a drum long enough, the weak-minded will capitulate, and the dumb-minded will be turned all the way out. All they needed was to find one thing the President said wasn’t true to suggest he misled the people on Obamacare.
All the President had (has) was (is) his word, and now his critics get to pile on in a way they haven’t been able to do since Obama’s been President. And they are piling on…
Even the President’s favorite “Frienemy,” former President Bill Clinton, weighed in—giving credence to that old saying, “Hey, when you see a good fight, jump in it.”
Clinton and Obama need each other like a skunk needs stank.
Obama needs Clinton’s credibility with “down home white folk” that don’t believe anything black people say (that’s what the Democratic Party speech was about). Clinton needs Obama’s social networking organization and pop culture connections to get his wife over the hump in 2016. Neither really like each other, but they need each other because both are so popular in two very different ways.
Both hold their noses, play nice and act like they like it. Both understand politics and political relationships. Obama pulled Clinton to launch the rollout to rural and redneck America (Clinton’s base) but Clinton didn’t sign up for the glitches—so only in a way Bill Clinton can do, he’s digging at Obama when trying to pull him out of the ditch. Meanwhile, even members of his own party seem to be getting soft on him. People couldn’t argue with success, and his popularity was the biggest sign of President Obama’s success. Now he’s at his lowest ratings, and people will kick you when you’re down. But he won’t be down always. He just needs to fix Obamacare.
This is just a bump in the road for President Obama. He’ll be ah-ight. The last social welfare policy to be rolled out of this magnitude was Social Security. It took seven years to get it right, and they eventually did—and it made for the primary social safety net we have today.
We can’t allow Obamacare to be unraveled. It was an incremental policy from the outset.
We just must insist that it be fixed as soon as possible.
I wonder how many people who were exempted from ObamaDon’tCare have had their policies cancelled.
The author appears to be a Muslim. I’m sure he wants what’s best for us. They all do. [/s]
One thing. Repeated multiple, multiple times. Repeated verbatim by the press and by his fellow travellers. Period.
Nobody had to deconstruct or parse anything. OBAMA LIED. HEALTH CARE DIED.
ACA = CACA................
The sign-up delays were truly problematic as the public’s excitement to enroll exceeded the government’s capacity to handle the requests—a point that’s being missed in the press, by the way
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An article that starts out with this half -truth can only finish with another lie.
The Half-truth leads one to believe that everyone wanted to get Obamacare at one time.
The fact is that although the web site got scant attendance it could not even handle that.
“The sign-up delays were truly problematic as the public’s excitement to enroll exceeded the government’s capacity to handle the requests—a point that’s being missed in the press, by the way.”
Less than 2000 people on the site crashed it.
“lied about one thing”
Lied all along the way, in many ways, in respect to many attributes, including the core characteristics of the thing.
“The sign-up delays were truly problematic as the public’s excitement to enroll exceeded the government’s capacity to handle the requests—a point that’s being missed in the press, by the way.”
That’s BS, right there. Every (so-called) journalist in the country tried the website the first day, so they could proclaim to the world how wonderful it was. Unfortunately, it wasn’t & they were forced to share their let-down. I’m sure many cried in their beer that evening.
Given that millions received cancellation notices for their insurance policies, and the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on advertising campaigns and "Navigator" programs, why would you not think that there would be a little built-in demand?
People being dropped from their health care plans while they considered their health plan options, is an unintended consequence unforeseen. ...
Unintended? Unforeseen? That was a major part of the implementation... FORCE the majority of people (it will be the majority when the employee mandate kicks in) to buy what they don’t want or need from the government.
Muslims for ObamaCare. They will get the subsidies, but Muslim organizations don’t have to pay the freight for “religious reasons”. It pays to be among Obama’s designated winners.
The Secretary of HHS made the following statement: “The Republicans NEVER WANTED IT TO WORK IN THE FIRST PLACE”. I’m sure FOX has her on video.
Now, while it was a nice try to shove the blame onto the repubs, I think the real story in her comment is a CLASSIC “projection” type of statement.
Remember what Dr. Krauthammer said about “projection”: It’s the ability to PROJECT upon another what you yourself are doing. I was married to a projection-type of person .. so I understand it quite well.
So, if you take the Secretary’s statement and add “projection” to it .. the Secretary said: WE NEVER WANTED IT TO WORK IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND, WHY WOULD THEY WANT THE PROGRAM TO NOT WORK ..??
Because it would get them to Single-Payer much faster. I’m beginning to wonder if the dems have figured out the 2014/2016 elections may not be good for them, and if they want to force this country into a depression, they are going to have to act fast .. killing our healthcare is a way to get there.
Gee, I hope more people will realize this healthcare mess WAS PLANNED by the DEMOCRATS.
Hey! He said the “r” word. Lookie here, Asadullah, that’s our work, you racist Muslim pig.
I was thinking about this this morning in another context.
I know for sure when the house of cards of this economy comes crashing down that the left will blame repubs/conservatives, but I had a hard time thinking like them to determine how they’d affix the blame.
I think this is it - you’re to blame because you didn’t want it to work. You’ll be to blame in the crash because you were saying it would crash.
Jobs
Constitution
People under the Drones
Americans counting on their current Health Care
"The president's specific words: I'm “really good at killing people,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann write"
"There has never been such a dish as Happy Family, with pork of a delicious stewing and water chestnuts of lobster in white sauce with delicious intent of such a demand as can muster in history of flavor."
The difference is that people hadn't yet experienced socialism and were ripe for all the new social engineering ideas.
We are in a different day where our social nets are not working and are in financial insolvency.
The Eurotrash-Muslim interpretation of Obamacare.
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