Posted on 11/08/2013 1:08:42 PM PST by Kaslin
If you want to know why Democratic Senators appear to be panicking over Obamacare, it is probably because the White House has not been able to convince them that HealthCare.gov will be up and running as promised by November 30.
And President Obama's HealthCare.gov surge czar Jeffrey Zients did nothing to calm that panic Friday on a conference call with reporters. Reuters reports:
The Obama administration's HealthCare.gov adviser Jeffrey Zeints said on Friday that the trouble-plagued federal healthcare website is improving, but that higher volumes of visitors are exposing new capacity and software issues.
In a conference call with reporters, Zeints said progress this week has been marred by roadblocks. He described HealthCare.gov as being "a long way from where it needs to be."
The administration is struggling to resolve problems with the website by the end of November, when it has pledged to have the system operating smoothly for the vast number of users including uninsured people interested in obtaining subsidized private health insurance.
As we've previously reported, Zients initial November 30 deadline seemed overly ambitious when it was given almost a month ago. So if Zients is discovering new problems as he fixes the ones he already identified, that makes it highly unlikely he will meet his original timetable.
And if Obama fails to get HealthCare.gov up and running by November 30, there is no telling what Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2014 might do.
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) has already agreed to co-sponsor legislation with Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) that would force insurance companies to un-cancel all the millions of insurance policies Obamacare already killed.
But this would only make the current high prices on the Obamacare exchanges even worse. The whole reason people are seeing their old policies cancelled, and replace with more expensive option with less benefits, is because Obamacare needs the healthy people with insurance now to help pay for the sick people who will be gaining insurance through Obamacare.
The reality there simply is no way to fix Obamacare even if the website gets fixed.
They’re not that stupid to set up a website that will only handle 1,100 people at a time. This is all going as planned. Single payer is just around the corner.
The insurance companies went along with obamacare because they thought it would force more people to buy insurance and it would allow the insurance companies to pay out less. It would seem they’re going to be responsible for their own demise.
Obama is SCREWED if he can’t get the website going and he is SCREWED if he does get it going. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Schadenfreude is delicious!
WELL.. Duuuugh!..
They sent up a plane unsafe to fly.
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noun
1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Lev. 16:8,10,26.
verb (used with object)
3. to make a scapegoat of: Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
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This individual will be the selected head of another agency with a Government database, that the Hillary/Romney/Obamacare system must access.
The Lamestream Media will "discover" this individual, and interview him/her.
He/She will admit that his/her database is causing some of the Hillary/Romney/Obamacare system failures. And will then proceed to inform the Presstitutes that he/she has been fighting to get the failed system operating properly since inheriting it from Bush.
The Presstitutes will rave about the "honesty" of the individual in admitting his her "Bush Diddit" problems.
The Administration and all Democrats will start beating the drums for pumping more money into the Hillary/Romney/Obamacare system, and also money for a FULL investigation into other Government systems to determine what other "Bush Diddit" failures also need to be discovered.
The "solution" will be specifically designed to stall/muddy the waters/blame "Bush Diddit" until after 2014 elections.
More money will flow to crony companies and union leaders, with appropriate kickbacks to all appropriate Democrat politicans.
All the crooks will feed heavily at the taxpayer trough, and all the Gimmedat voters, and the Presstitutes will continue to scream "Bush Diddit" at any opponents of the new Democrat plan to "SAVE HEALTHCARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN".
Get ready, it's coming to a TV screen near you.
P.S. The Scapegoat will "take responsibility" and be promoted to a better paying, more powerful, job in the Federal Government.
P.P.S. The GOPe will blink, nod, and support the new plan to "SAVE HEALTHCARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN".
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Congress can pass a law if they want. The insurance companies will not be able to un-cancel those policies. That ship has sailed. Too many people will have moved on. The insurance cannot reassemble the risk pools deastroyed by 0bamacare. The actuarial assumptions of underwriting the risk will have changed too much to just renew those policies.
“To: Kaslin
Theyre not that stupid to set up a website that will only handle 1,100 people at a time. “
For real accomplishments? Yeah they are. The web site should have worked, with the plans failing.
“Single payer is just around the corner.”
That certainly appears to be the goal and is likely true.
Not to mention the regulatory hoops the plans would have to go through with a slow-moving bureauocracy.
Uh, wrong. The solution, which is where we are going anyway, is single payer.
Certainly a horrible solution but that's where we're going.
I pray Congress has the cojones to resist.
the msm already has the stories written it won’t be ready. in the headlines are the words “unexpectedly”, “surprisingly”, etc. they took a little time to crawl out of barry’s colon to get this all set up.
we don’t call them scapegoats.
we call them Goldsteins. per 1984 and the two minutes hate.
Hmmm, please elaborate for me.
More like 503.
they had to control the rage energy of the proles and redirect it away from them.
they had a two minutes hate every day where they showed an image of a guy, Goldstein, the supposed leader of rebels, was speaking the truth about what they were doing. the people never listned but just screamed and yelled at the screen while this went on. then he faded away and the anthem came on with patriotic images and they all got silent and ‘proud’ to be an outer party worker.
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
Next will be that it will be there for the Americans most in need at the moment, and then it will be ready for the telephone customer service representatives who will happily take your call.
-PJ
They are desperate to keep putting more hooks in the mix to make it harder to get rid of - they will keep plugging no matter how many casualties.
The path for the political hacks is wayyy too predictable. It's not even fun to watch anymore..it's like we learned all of their cheats and now their game needs to be severely updated or trashed.
EXACTLY where is the money coming from that funds all the Czar’s that Obama controls?
There has to be staff at each of these appointments—over 30 of them. There has to be rent, power, & other bills to support their ‘work’.
How come no one ever asks this & asks the members of the House where this funding is coming from???
Delaware—Biden’s home state——reported that it had sign up 6 citizens as of Nov 6 or so.
That is 6 people in 37 days!!!
What a business plan!!
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