And that’s just the beginning of the nightmare
Only a fool would think that dealing with the government for ANYTHING would be easy
...But it’s still a great system, right msnbc?
Billions of dollars have been spent on these exchanges.
Billions which could have paid for the healthcare of the small percentage which qualify for their use.
It’s still George Bush’s fault, because the Republicans shut down the government again.
I mean, how’s the gummint s’posta work without no money?
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The one silver lining for the Obama masses is that they won't have nearly as many choices to mull through as the seniors did with. Medicare part D. They are still going to have to deal with the shock when they find out free healthcare isn't free.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch........
Does not surprise me one freaking bit. We’ve known for months this would be a fiasco, and that most states would be out of compliance on 10/1. So let it roll. Let these lame headed citizens see what they elected.
So tired of having to be silent about this crappity-ass piece of legislation and all the pressure we have gotten to give the states everything they asked for.
I read a pretty good article a couple of months ago that pointed out that the computer infrastructure needed to implement this mess was not ready and would take some time to get ready and work. Not only not enough computing power absent but they don’t even have all of the software written and in place to make this thing work right.
Rush just described an article where the author described a similar exercise in total frustration with an effort to apply at an “exchange.” To be fair, it’s likely that Ms Schiavocampo and that article’s author are both of above average intelligence and are far more familiar with dealing with complex software than the average low info voter. That being so, just imagine the chaos that will strike when millions of low info voters are forced into this nightmare.
I bet in the end there will hardly anyone sign up because they will give up on the process when it just get more confusing.
Boy, did Obama miss a bet on not taking the one-year delay offered by the Repubs. Sounds like he’ll end up delaying it for a year anyway just to work out the bugs.
“Uh, on second thought, guys, I’d like to announce I’ve heard that the American public wants some more time and out of the goodness of my heart I will extend the deadline...”
Nobody can sign up under the health insurance “exchanges” that were supposed to be up and operating today.
There was an exchange all right. The view of the future was exchanged for a handful of dross, fools’ gold, magic beans and pixie dust.
You can’t fix stupid. But you are not required to submit to it, either.
It is our higher moral duty to resist unjust laws. Sure, there are consequences, just as there were for the people who defied the Jim Crow laws throughout many parts of the “Old Confederacy”, in that you may get your head beaten, or end up incarcerated.
But those laws got repealed, didn’t they?
Civil disobedience works.. Look at the example of Mahatma Gandhi and the drive for independence in India.
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
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I do not believe that Obamacare was ever designed to “work”. It was designed to create an unworkable mess and to destroy the existing system, believing that they would then leverage a single payer system from the ashes.