Posted on 10/15/2013 4:21:24 AM PDT by grundle
1. So far, the Affordable Care Act's launch has been a failure. Not "troubled." Not "glitchy." A failure. But "so far" only encompasses 14 days. The hard question is whether the launch will still be floundering on day 30, and on day 45.
2. According to Bob Laszlewski, those problems aren't resolved.
3. What didn't the White House know and when didn't they know it?
4. One thing has gone abundantly right for the Affordable Care Act: The Republican Party. Their decision to shut down the government on the exact day the health-care law launched was a miracle for the White House. If Republicans had simply passed a clean-CR on Oct. 1 these last few weeks would've been nothing -- nothing at all -- save for coverage of the health-care law's disaster. Instead the law has been knocked off the front page by coverage of the Republican Party's disaster.
5. This isn't about politics. A lot of liberals will be angry over this post. A lot of conservatives will be happy about it. But it's important to see the Affordable Care Act as something more than a pawn in the political wars: It's a real law that real people are desperately, nervously, urgently trying to access. And so far, the Obama administration has failed them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I don’t understand. The pull line here is: If the GOP didn’t do everything in their power to stop the garbage ACA from becoming entrenched into our society, then everyone would know how crappy the law was? This is how DC people think? The real world does not work like this. Bad ideas are stopped before they become “go forward” plans. The real issue is the corruptio of the meadia...who are supposed to inform the public of the problems with the ACA and then explain why the GOP feels so passionately about stopping it. If anyone is to blame for the mess were in, it’s the media....after President Obama. Everyone is just so self absorbed with the story, no one has a freakin’ clue!!!
This econmy is going to collapse due to poorly run programs like Obamacare which will never add up. Social Security, Welfare, and Medicare don’t add up either. For some reason, stating this blatently obvious fact is some how ‘arson’ or ‘terrorism?’ The world has gone freakin’ crazy.
Obama will probably end up with another trillion in debt cap relief and 13 months from now he’ll want another trillion. At that time, the Tea Party folks will once again say, “Shouldn’t we maybe try to get a handle on tis spending?” and, once again, Obama will call us arsonist and the media will call us extreme and out of touch!
Here’s the real fact, the TEA party is not going to get smaller and fade away. It’s going to get bigger and more influential. It won’t be because of some big political conversion, either. It’ll be because the math simply demands that this will happen.
The SCOTUS violated the "origination" concept of the creation of taxes - taxes can only originate in the House. But, in this case, it came to the SCOTUS as a mandate to purchase a product or service and SCOTUS tortuously morphed it into a tax.
Then, after the President signed it, he changed some sections, refused to enforce some sections, and delayed some sections - all in violation of the law itself, and breaking other laws and Constitutional processes. It is not even the same law Roberts ruled on, it has change so much.
It is not the Law of the Land, it is a Law of Won Man.
The nation is going through the puking, shakes, sweating, and convulsions of Hopium withdrawal. Let's detox the country of this dangerous social drug. Let the healing begin before a second Civil War starts.
Where is the second fight in front of SCOTUS? If we are stuck with this law for 3 more years, there won't be a country left to save. We can't wait in hopes of a Republican President - we need to act NOW.
So the 50K enrollments touted by the regime, which is a pathetic number to begin with, might actually be 50K enrollments and 49K of un-enrollments.
Where is the Master of the Obvious picture?
As for the Republicans, if the GOPe had not been curled up under their desks in a fetal position trying to figure out how to surrender, and instead had been shouting from the mountain tops “See, we were right!”, they could have swung public opinion.
Are there none who will put country before party?
I keep hoping some will stand up & denounce what is happening to our country.
None have the cahones to stand up to the thugs in their party (Harry and Nancy). ObamaCare was mis-labeled. It should be HarryCare. His staff wrote the bill. He strong-armed, bought-off, threatened enough Democrats, and finagled the rules to get it passed. Harry should be prosecuted under the RICO laws. One other benefit to calling it HarryCare - the MSM can't call you a racist if you oppose it.
"Instead, Republicans managed to make themselves so unpopular that they've actually made the law more popular. Many Americans believe, reasonably but wrongly, that the reason Obamacare isn't working is that the Republicans shut the government down. And if the Affordable Care Act does begin to improve in the coming weeks Republicans will have lost their chance to harm it."
I've done a lot of reading about the Obamacare rollout including Twitter and Facebook comments and I have yet to see anyone blaming the Republicans for the problems. Of course I don't read anything spoken or written by Pelosi so I could have missed it.
It's nice to see FR getting juiced again.
This statement, from a liberal, is "stunning".
We had the drive bys at first tout Obama's line that the problems were "glitches" that would be deftly and quickly remedied. Instead, problems have worsened and grown to other issues besides just website accessibility. Now, the drive bys are acknowledging that it's a cluster, but they're blaming the GOP for changing the subject.
I don't know what more the GOP could have done to call attention to it. Did Klein miss Cruz's 21 hour stand on the Senate floor? One major reason a clean bill has not been passed is the insistence that changes need to be made to it.
It is breath taking that no matter how horribly Obama screws up, it's somehow always the fault of the GOP.
More like 10K enrollments...then unenrollments...then re enrollment X 5...to get to 50K
But they’re OK with that.
After all, the elite progressives that get elected are superior, both ethically and intellectually,
so it’s OK if they have more control.
I saw this same attitude in the 1990s in the computer industry when problems between memory manufacturers, processor companies, and Microsoft led to glitchy behavior in testing situations (some memory manufacturers were more reliable than others, but the whole thing was a house of cards with problems at the processor and OS level as well). The decision was to meet the street date as announced because the competition had the same problems and you didn't want to "not seem ready".
“He thinks conservatives will be happy about this article?”
Projection.
No! Just as there are damned few Republicans willing to put aside their personal power and prestige for the good of the country.
Thank God for Cruz and Lee!
There are no millions waiting to sign up.
Just like there weren’t for the chronic expensive health conditions exchanges that were supposed to solve the world’s problems two years ago.
They shut those exchanges down. They’ll have to shut these down too.
He’s complaining about technical glitches. This is not an issue of software development:
IT’S ABOUT SOCIALISM AND TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER DECISONS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
I agree! And I do thank God for Cruz & Lee!!
You’re right - or he’s nuts.
Here’s another ‘unintended consequence’ of ObamaCare: deductibles are so high doctors charge for services BEFORE you see the doctor. NO PAY NO PLAY
You’re right - or he’s nuts.
Here’s another ‘unintended consequence’ of ObamaCare: deductibles are so high doctors charge for services BEFORE you see the doctor. NO PAY NO PLAY
I suspect this started with the government ‘Advantage Plans’ that have low monthly premiums - and VERY high deductibles in many cases... A rip off plan if you actually get sick. The only plan worth having is Medigap Plan F - covers all excess charges. (there are two ‘F’ plans - choose the one with NO deductible) It’s a plan you’ll never see advertised.
“You’re right - or he’s nuts.”
Those two choices are not mutually exclusive.
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