Posted on 10/16/2013 7:20:30 AM PDT by VideoPaul
These same people are going to be the ones CONTROLLING our healthcare...encouraging.
But that’s what Mr. Obama promised, I’m just going on what he said publicly and on the record. He wouldn’t lie to us, would he?
If the wait time on the Live Chat has fallen from 45 minutes to almost none, that tells me people are giving up and not even bothering to phone in for help.
HT/ www.peoplescube.com
It never occurs to him that the Admin
DOESN’T WANT HIM TO SEE THE RATES.
INCONVENIENT FACTOID one story surfaced last week that the same crew that got the contract for the ObamaCare website were former data/media/social media people from the Obama campaign.
INCONVENIENT FACTOID Toni Townes-Whitley, Senior Vice President at CGI Federal for Civilian Agency programs, is Princeton Class of 1985---same dumbed-down class as Michelle Obama. Both are members of Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
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A GLIMPSE OF WHAT'S TO COME A November 30, 2012 Cato.com report indicated the Insurance Exchanges will cost Twice What it Costs to Administer Medicare (NOT what the WH twit told Americans).
ONE STATE'S LAUNCH--- In March 2013 CATO.COM reported "The Cost to Launch the California Health Insurance Exchange is $910 million".
So far (2012) California has received $910 million in federal grants to launch its new health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). The California exchange, "Covered California," has so far awarded a $183 million contract to Accenture to build the website, enrollment, and eligibility system and another $174 million to operate the exchange for four years.
The state will also spend $250 million on a two-year marketing campaign. By comparison California Senator Barbara Boxer spent $28 million on her 2010 statewide reelection campaign while her challenger spent another $22 million.
The most recent installment of the $910 million in federal money was a $674 million grant. The exchange's executive director noted that was less than the $706 million he had asked for. "The feds reduced the 2014 potential payment for outreach and enrollment by about $30 million," he said. "But we think we have enough resources on hand to do the biggest outreach that I have ever seen."
For additional perspective....private insurance marketing site, Esurance sells not only health insurance but also things like homeowners and auto insurance across the country......author put his zip code into their system along with his age, they offered him 87 different health plans from all the big players in my area.
Now granted, the new health insurance exchanges are more complex because they have to interface with Medicaid and the IRS as well as calculate subsidies. But the order of magnitude difference in what it cost to launch esurance compared to the California exchange is pretty big.
Privately funded Esurance began its multi-product national web business in 1998 with an initial $5.5 million round of venture fund investment in 1999 and a second round of $34 million a few months later.
The start-up experience of other major web companies is also instructive. Facebook received $13.7 million to launch in 2005. eBay was founded in 1995 and received its first venture money in 1997$6.7 million.
Even doubling these private investments for inflation still leaves quite a gap.
SOURCE http://www.cato.org/blog/californias-obamacare-exchange-costs-56-times-more-launch-facebook
I don’t know how much can be saved on Obamacare premiums, but the deductibles make having the insurance worthless.
Ah... this is the first verification that I’ve seen...
“income” and “race” were asked on the website.
These will be used to determine if you get covered or not.
Guaranteed.
TALKING POINTS---A West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer information. Clarksburg-based West Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's personnel and hiring practices, including employee background checks and employee monitoring programs, the Sunday Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/17M1QVe) reported. (Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
YOUR TURN--Contact your state AG---ask him/her to issue a letter of inquiry to groups receiving federal "Navigator" grants. The inquiry should center on questions WRT how the group intends to protect consumer data.
In particular, the questionnaire should ask if the tax-funded "Navigator" program intends to transfer personal/ financial/medical data of the insured to the local/county/national Democrat Party, relevant Unions, banks, investment companies, drug companies, insurance companies. Trial Lawyers' associations and whether "Navigators" have sub rosa contracts with these, and other groups, plan to profit, to provide significant info to enrich databases for pecuniary purposes.
The AG also needs to confirm (1) whether the "navigator" was ever convicted of a felony....... and....(2) whether the "navigator" can be bonded.
Most importantly demand that your AG enforce the requirement that "Navigators" must have a state insurance license (consists of a comprehensive test on all aspects of insurance and compels a background check).
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DAILY CALLER.COM--Kansas Obamacare navigator
has outstanding arrest warrant / by Michael Volpe
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Rosilyn Wells the Director of Outreach and Enrollment for the Heartland Community Health-care Center (HCHC)-- was hired as an Obamacare "navigator" despite her shady financial history: (1) a bankruptcy in 2003, (2) a 2007 civil charge from a local check cashing business for writing a bad check, (3) being more than $1700 behind on her state tax bill, and, (4) having an outstanding arrest warrant in nearby Shawnee County. Wells lives and works in Douglass County.
Not until Baby Wetsandcries capitulates to the Democrats.
I went through everything to get the whole experience. I decided to see if I qualify for “subsidies”. You’re getting the unedited, unvarnished experience.
I understand that a lot of people are reticent to enter in all of this information. As I mentioned in the article, this information is already so ubiquitous in various government systems that I saw absolutely no change in how much information the government has about me, so I went ahead and filled it all in.
Personally, I find a lot of this intrusive. I understand why the income questions are needed to see if you qualify for the “subsidy” but I am at a total loss to understand why ethnicity plays any part in this whatsoever.
Thanks for reporting. Very eye-opening.
And the government has no right to keep such a very private database. . .what next, questions about political affiliation? And to what end beyond this debacle? Selling information, leaking potential embarrassing information, “no expectation of privacy” I think I recall reading is in the computer code of this program.
It is a danger to our freedoms and security to allow the federal government to amass such detailed personal data on a free people.
I shouldn’t be surprised, after all , this is the same government that has the Census asking the same level of detail (if not more); the ACS (American Community Survey).
Because you're not a leftist. You don't think of people in tribes/groups, each with a different level of victimhood or "oppressorhood".
I guarantee that "race" will play a factor in the subsidies at minimum, and in actually approval of care after implementation.
Your experience is exactly the same as mine.. exactly..
Couple notes.
I called and talked to a person (she was nice), but she couldn’t provide an escalation path. She is sending me a hard copy to apply via mail. It’s been 10 days and I’ve not received it. (She did tell me that she knew of no one who had successfully signed up..)
Chatting online is worthless..
I’ve talked to another woman who tried really hard to get me a number to give experian, but was unable to get through to ‘tech support’.. Nor did she know who were the actual people who would look at the drivers license scan I uploaded. Again, no escalation path.
I have sent a picture of my drivers license to a location in Kentucky. Who knows what they’ll do with it
The demographic information they gather serves as a proxy for this, probably with 90% accuracy.
You will be given or denied care based on your political affiliation, and that is the goal of socialized healthcare.
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