Posted on 11/15/2013 7:19:31 AM PST by lbryce
The Obama administration reported just more than 106,000 Americans signed up for health insurance plans in the first month. CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett reports
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There is a modicum of something positive to the catastrophic political situation the President finds himself in, with very little breathing room for him to salvage his ego, to somehow extricate himself politically.
Obama has so impugned himself where he finds himself politically reeling. It is a fait acompli, where I believe he can never recover from the reality in which he has finally lost all political capital, here and abroad.
Obama has revealed himself as the veritable lilliputian of mind, morals,political viability. He brought to the office of the president everything that made him what he is, all his inherent skills, qualities, all that he worked to attain and it has all shown itself for what it was worth.
That, at this juncture is the only satisfaction anyone can allow himself.
One thing he and everyone in DC have forgotten is that "They derive their power from the consent of the governed".
That bastard sh*tbag NEVER HAS, and NEVER WILL have my consent!
I just keep thinking about The Caine Mutiny...
Keep in mind that “enrollments” are not necessarily people actually buying Obamacare insurance plans. Almost all so far have yet to be billed, and then will have a couple of months with the grace period to actually make up their mind about the rather over-priced policies being offered and begin payments. Many younger, healthier enrollees will very likely eventually opt to pay the ephemeral “fine” and simply self-insure, which is about all you are doing anyway with the high-deductible bronze plans. This will prove to be a cash-flow nightmare for the insurers, many of whom are thinly capitalized startups and co-ops who have likely under-priced their offerings to gain quick market share.
CBS has kicked into full “Screw Barry, Save the Dem Senate Majority” mode.
This morning Howard Dean said since the website will *never* work that HHS needs to call up 10,000 Obama 2012 volunteers to man the phone lines and take calls from those 5 to 10 million that are losing their insurance, and the uninsured, so they can explain all the options over phone and take down all the personal financial info, and the orders.
He didnt explain exactly what they would do with the info with a broken website.
Pretty entertaining Howard
You said it very well.
Well, if it really hits the fan for Him, he can always claim “Hey, I’m Kenyan after all. See ya.”
“He didnt explain exactly what they would do with the info with a broken website.”
Well, there are these cool little items that have a base and then about a 4 inch pin coming out of them. They could just stick the application on the pin and pass it to the next person. At the end of the day, they would use filing cabinets to make sure IRS would ever find your application.
Or, they could use the WWII “computer” approach. Huge rooms full of women (called “computers”) with adding machines. Each would perform one calculation and pass the results onto the next woman.
You know its rather amazing that up till the mid to late 1990s how much work was done with paper forms, photocopy machines, filing cabinets with folders, and those with few skills and some training who did what a computer does now and had to be paid.
Dean must be on drugs to suggest such a thing.
Who wants to give their SS## and other sensitive info etc on the phone, when they cant be sure who is on the other end? Could be calling Russia.
That’s a good point. How many will actually make their payments? Hmmmm.....
Ya know, ever once in a while ol’ Howie lets a bit truth slip out-
“This morning Howard Dean said since the website will *never* work..”
-but, then, the fairy dust seems to take right back over-
“HHS needs to call up 10,000 Obama 2012 volunteers to man the phone lines and take calls from those 5 to 10 million that are losing their insurance”
*PAGING ALL SHOPPERS... PAGING ALL SHOPPERS... WILL THE SHOPPERS WHO ABANDONED 102,000 LOADED SHOPPING CARTS AT THE EXIT PLEASE RETURN AND PAY FOR THEIR PRODUCTS AT THE CHECK-OUT LINES? THANK YOU.*
Has anyone pointed out that a few weeks ago it was determined that Medicaid enrollees are being counted along with people who put a plan in their basket but may not have actually finished the enrolling process? With that in mind the figures would be much lower. I heard that Medicaid has a separate system for enrollment that has been up for years and they are including that.
Once his melanin-based defensive shield is breached, though - he’s toast. He can’t hide his incompetence and hate for America any more once that’s gone.
He doesnt seem to believe Obama’s or HHS’s vague assurances.
He must believe the negative reports citing it as a unfixable basket case by poor design.
Plus, with 5 to 10 million losing their health insurance in January, those are all ones that they want to sign up for it on website, and the site barely able to handle a thousand a day now, there doesnt seem to be much chance of it working out in the short term.
that was the prayer for the dead.
“Could be calling Russia.”
Even worse. It could be Chicago. :)
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