Posted on 07/19/2013 8:49:30 AM PDT by IbJensen
With open enrollment in Obamacare’s exchanges set to start in fewer than three months, the law’s supporters are attempting to change the subject from Obamacare’s many delays and glitches. Instead, they’re mounting a campaign to sell the unpopular measure to the public.
President Obama yesterday gave a speech on Obamacare, trying to justify the fact that premiums continue to rise, violating his 2008 campaign promise to lower them by $2,500 per family per year. The Kaiser Family Foundation even released a video that attempts to simplify and explain the 2,700-page measure.
But there’s another helpful chart that shows how Obamacare will work, and it’s taken from an official report released by government auditors. Click on the image below to see how the Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration explained the Obamacare enrollment process, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday:
President Obama's Plan to "Simplify" Your Health Care
The process for determining subsidy eligibility could require 21 different steps, involving at least five separate entities—the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service, and state exchanges—and utilizing a process called the Income and Family Size Verification Project.
Given this bureaucratic nightmare, it’s little wonder that another report from government auditors released last month said that “critical” deadlines to create the Obamacare exchanges had been missed. Nor should any be surprised that yesterday, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration testified it “is concerned that the potential for refund fraud and related schemes could increase” due to Obamacare.
Yet the Obama Administration believes spending more money will solve the problem. Just for the IRS implementation of Obamacare, the Administration requested $439.6 million for nearly 2,000 bureaucrats.
Obama yesterday attempted to portray Obamacare as defending Americans from insurance companies. But who will defend the American people from Obamacare? The law’s confusing maze of programs, regulations, and processes brings to mind Ronald Reagan’s famous maxim that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
If a picture is normally worth a thousand words, the Obamacare chart above should be worth trillions. Because Congress—seeing that Obamacare is not just too big to fail, but too big to succeed—should refuse to spend a single dime implementing this behemoth of a health care law.
There is a positive outcome for Obamacare.....it gives conservatives great marketing fodder for the 2014 and 2016 elections.....that is assuming they can strap on their collective set of cajones and use it.
Open up a few cans of whoopass and lay it on them!
Massive non-participation is called for.
The governed must withhold consent or they are asking to be mistreated.
The FEDS at FAA are making new laws and regulations to control model airplanes with cameras that farmers want to use for crop surveys. Until FAA gets the rules in place and a comment period ensues the farmers are prohibited from flying model airplanes over their fields.
Time for civil disobedience. Time for fed employees to be stopped and learn there are consequences for turning against their fellow citizens for a few pieces of silver and find some honest work.
I doubt any of this will ever happen. We will whimper and cower into the waste bin of history.
The ONE is well pleased.
Open up a few cans of whoopass and lay it on them!
I must not be a RINO, because I'm whole-heartedly in favor of that plan; as well, I'm not at all surprised EmbalmerCare isn't working out as promised.
I understand why its being called Ocare BUT its really democrat care. They all had a big hand in it more so than Barry.
It is long past time for civil disobedience in America. This central socialist government and most all of the state and local governments are not worthy of respect. They collectively are ruining our lives and have already ruined our economy with their asinine and excessive taxation.
They believe they belong in a separate class and we are the peons. (That means they get to piss on us!)
The farmers in their capacity as R/C hobbyists are not prohibited from flying models over their fields and taking photos. Thousands of people do this every day. Commercial application is what the FAA is regulating (wink).
Right. Barry couldn’t have read or conceived this as he’s handicapped.
The poor socialist African is dyslexic, autistic, neurotic, narcissistic, sociopathic, sexually confused, addiction ridden, a sexual fantasist and he’s brain dead.
He’s America’s first leader and the world’s since Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin that’s a complete and utter case for a strait jacket and a padded room.
How our legislative body can allow this poor degenerate to remain in office escapes me. It’s not up to the American people to remove him from office, but I see no attempts being made by the elite political class to do the right thing.
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