Posted on 10/04/2013 7:12:46 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Barely 24 hours after President Obama signed his landmark health law, Gov. Martin O’Malley promised that Maryland would “lead the nation” in putting it in place.
In the three years since, Maryland has been at the forefront of implementing the Affordable Care Act. It established six policy work groups. It trained more than 5,000 people to help consumers enroll in new health-coverage options. When its online insurance exchange passed a critical test in the summer — one of the first in the country to do so — a top official gave an emotional speech thanking workers. If any state was going to be ready for Oct. 1, when millions of uninsured Americans would be able to start buying coverage under the health law, it would be Maryland.
But when Tuesday arrived, Maryland’s Web site stumbled badly. People couldn’t log on, forcing state officials to delay the opening of the exchange for four hours. Even after it opened, many frustrated users were unable to create accounts, the first step in buying coverage.
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So, are the # of signups increasing or decreasing?
Do you have list of those?
I believe that one day one of BOcare Connecticut had 22 people sign up.
I'm thinking:
North Carolina
Georgia
Texas
South Carolina
In no particular order. I'm open to suggestions, however. :)
Owe'Malley has his nose so far up Obama's butt, that his sneezes sound and smell like farts.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
At least the Obama campaign contributors who created the websites got paid. Crony corruption works well for the cronies.
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Yes, and the cronies, as do all crony capitalists, delivered a defective product that would fail miserably in the private, competitive environment. But they’ll take their multiple millions and kick back some to the Democrats.
Obamacare-—the Detroit of health plans.
I don't think any are "free".
Alas, I can’t take the cold weather anymore although those states are probably great compared to here.
The headline should perpetually read, Maryland Stumbles.
And if it happened, they still wouldn’t have load-tested, and the sites would have crashed just as badly next year.
No, the dickhead, communist, liar O’Malley.
That about sums it up.
Del. is close by and likely an improvement, in the most southern county (LSD - lower-slower-Delaware).
I wonder if this site crashing is not intentional. They KNOW the program won’t work. They know few will sign up. But after all the hell they raised they’ll never admit it. This is their way of getting out of it. And the LIVs will fall for it or pretend they’ve fallen for it.
I’m tempted to become a “Chad”. All I’d have to do is contact one TV station and lie like hell. Them after it’s gone viral admit I was lying because I’m a tea partier who wants to kill kittens.
Folks are blaming the software but maybe people just don’t want this stuff.
The Original Boston Tea Party had the slogan: “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION !”
Back then in the 1700’s the Colonists did not like Tyranny, and eventually went to War to rid themselves of it.
Today, low-information people, and their “Mainstream” Media’s attitude is: “Tyranny? Is that like “bad” or something?”
High-information people realize that we have had Tyranny imposed on us by our own NINE SUPREMES when they told us that ANY Administration can force us to buy anything they want us to buy as long as it is called a MANDATORY TAX.
The Obama Administration then decreed that the IRS would gather our personal medical information, administer and collect this MANDATORY TAX from us, and or punish us as they saw fit: WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.
A simple annual, or quarterly increase in the Insurance Premium is all that is needed to increase taxation by the Obama Administration that is not subject to the Constitutional “Advice and Consent” of the United States Congress.
To this point in time, the Obama Administration has been successful in depriving us of Representation in Congress while imposing a mandatory insurance tax on us.
The Obama Administration may call it “Forced Marketing,” but I call it TRYANY !
MANDATORY PURCHASE OF OBAMACARE MEDICAL INSURANCE IS “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION !”
No, I think he means the communist idiot who talks with a lisp and is never seen in public without his sleeves rolled up and his tie loose so it looks like he’s actually working. He always carries a disposable coffee cup that is obviously empty. Just like his head.
Talking about the economic illiterate who actually said that Marylanders would be glad for a gas tax increase. (Marty-When’s the last time you opened your wallet to fill a tank?)
That’s the guy.
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