Posted on 11/23/2013 11:38:56 AM PST by Hojczyk
I interviewed the deputy director of California’s Obamacare exchange on Friday, Dana Howard. The audio and transcript are below. There is much to marvel at and be alarmed by in the conversation, but the most worrisome admission from Mr. Howard is that CovredCA.com has no projected model of success -
it simply doesn’t know what demographic mix must be reached in order for the insurance policies being offered to be sustainable. You should also know that the numbers of “enrolled” are laughably low –less than 1,000 people who list Spanish as their principle language enrolled in October, for example–
My takeaway: MSM journalism has wholly failed to focus on the cost and benefits of these state exchanges –the fact that they are operating on the wish fulfillment model not hard facts and strong, data-supported projections, and that the marketing budgets are huge and generally a black hole of hocus pocus while the ordinary operating issues of such a large and new bureaucracy have been kicked down the road. Much info is available online at www.hbex.ca.gov –but don’t count on it being there for long.
Bottom line: CoveredCA.com officials are saying it is working and the website in particular is “working great!” But neither the program nor the website are “working great.” They are actually failing spectacularly by any sane measurement, and the story is not being reported because a kept California media, led by the Lost Angeles Times doesn’t do basic reporting of the sort I did Friday for a mere 30 minutes. Faith based-reporting covering faith-based insuring equals millions of Californians without health insurance come 1/1/14. Crash. Burn. Surprise, however, should not be tolerated. The rapid, spiraling descent of the jalopy is visible to anyone who looks.
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.com ...
http://www.hughhewitt.com/wp-content/uploads/11-22hhs-howard.mp3
interview.. Hugh does a good interview
The only ones that are qualified to gauge ‘success’ are the insurance company actuaries and accountants working in unison. The reason the government cannot determine the ‘trip point’ is because they aren’t in that business (making money). They are all about ‘taking money’. Further compounding the problem is they never asked the insurance industry shit. They TOLD them what’s going to happen and they’d have to deal with it and like it.
Do they count those shanghaied into Medicaid in their signup counts?
Isn’t single payer their goal? Doesn’t Obama plan to destroy health insurance?
Granny better be a registered Democrat, or she won’t get that hip replacement.
Obama and his group of Marxists do not want it to succeed. They want epic failure so that they can go to their real final ending...Single Payer socialized medicine.
Of course it is. From the very beginning and even before that. However, that doesn’t stop them from doing what they do best - lie.
They won’t tell the truth in regard to any of their real goals because the majority of American people wouldn’t put up with it.
They obfuscate, blame (always), equivocate (when caught) and yell “squirrel” every damned chance they get. It is only logic that they would blame the greedy capitalistic insurance companies, those nasty obstructionist Republicans (who had not a damned thing to say or control over about ANY of this implementation).
Their magic Muslim Negro stands tall and defiant hissing at every opportunity about he, he, he and how HE did this and that and those damned Tea Party Conservatives who are terrorists screwed it all up. Damned Tea Party.
We are ruled (yes, ruled) by a Muslim minority with an America-hating education and upbringing, steeped in minority privilege and ‘affirmative action’ protection in education, record and true thoughts, intelligence and experience.
If they're looking for a demographic mix for it to be sustainable, then it isn't insurance at all. Insurance involves grouping together people with similar risks and charging all the members of each group the actuarily appropriate premium. What they're trying to do is get low-risk people to subsidize high-risk people. They should be honest about it and not call it "insurance." It's plain and simple income transfer.
Hugh Hewitt doesn’t know the difference between “principal” and “principle?”
It never was; from the instant that coverage of "preexisting conditions" became a no-choice feature and required!
It will fall apart 8 ways from Sunday but who’s keeping track of the train wreck?
Anyhow if America needed a test for how many lies it can accept before going tilt, it’s got that test now.
It won’t sell. Too much discontinuity from the old system that people still remember. The old system was still good enough that this attempt to put it in chains will have glaring consequences.
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