This is like the fat guy stuck in a water slide, in need of sending down a handful of slim people to unplug the clog.
The likely result of this?
Posted on 01/02/2014 1:36:35 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".....................Halfway through the open-enrollment period, it’s past time for a sustained publicity blitz.
Outreach can’t end once people leave HealthCare.gov. As more people enter the health-care system, there will be confusion. Some might make more frequent (and expensive) visits to the emergency room rather than get a primary-care doctor. Still others might think they have coverage when they do not, perhaps because they failed to pay their insurers or because a computer bug mangled their applications . And those who have to pay more for insurance or take a cut in benefits — not everyone will win in a coverage expansion of this size — will be angry.
Through all this, observers should keep calm. The Obama administration’s success at tackling many of the tasks ahead won’t be clear for months, once the open-enrollment period ends and more numbers start coming in.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Guess what, even sheeple will get angry at this when they see it getting worse all around.
Washington Post: The “wingnut hole” measured: 5 million without insurance thanks to GOP refusal
The essay, by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall at the website Politics in Color, is entitled “2013: A Year of Racial Challenges.”
“[S]outhern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack [sic] President,” writes Browne-Marshall..............."
It may work as Obama and the Democrats intended, but it will never work well.
It may even seem to work fiscally, because they are dumping a few million more on Medicaid to keep subsidy costs lower, but it will never work well.
This government will dissemble, mislead and inflate the numbers of 'enrollees' as well as hiding the millions more new Medicaid recipients right on through the 2014 elections and, if they can contain that fat lady's bustle, through the 2016 elections.
There are three absolutes one can count on for 2014: 1) the government will lie about it, 2) the media will help them, and 3) Obama will blame everyone but himself. Universal idioms.
Another black Marxist moron on parade.
More needed to enroll. Setting an example for all, the representatives sent to serve, will all enroll.
Because it is no different than SS ... people pay in a lot and the gummint doles out a small bit.
It is going to fail, the prices are too high!
We are a society running on automatic for the most part. Over the next hundred days...some folks will appear at the doctor’s office for their regular six-month appointment, and be told that their old policy is gone, their new policy is in effect, and that this doctor doesn’t honor this type of policy....so you either pay in cash or leave the premises.
You can imagine the shock....day after day....week after week...thousands by March come to discover that things aren’t the same old way they were for the past decade.
So they start to look for the doctors who will honor this bronze policy, and discover that this doctor is very aware of the deductible business, and he wants a check or credit card put down in ‘good faith’ by the “customer” (forget the term patient for the next year or two).
You’d get awful upset....having to put down $300 to show your faith on this deductible business, then you discover that with the lab stuff, and additional visit later...this one problem will cost you $2,100. So that measly $300 was nothing but the start of a financial drain on your life. Now you have to find $1,800 or charge that to your credit card, or ask the bank for a loan (they will laugh over that but easily give you a nine-percent loan for one stupid visit to the doctor).
By mid-summer, a family of four will owe $4,500 from these bronze-plan episodes. Dad will turn back to the 2012 policy that he had, and realize now that it was $1,500 then. The strategy change for late fall 2014? A bunch of folks will think low-deductible will be the way to go and they all sign up for massive $11,000 a year health plans, with a $1,500 deductible. Course, you know the story....they dig themselves deeper into debt.
And the administration? They will sit and wonder why they never took business classes in college, and why they never had a single business expert on the Presidential staff.
We will continue to see a long line of people like the lady in another thread who can't see how she can pay for her new medical care, and one of her kids can't get enrolled at all.
This won't get any better. It is going to get worse next fall when the details of the employer based plans for 2015 hit is the streets. This is already hitting smaller business. My brother works for a tech start up, less than 50 employees. They had a great, high deductible, HSA plan where the employer seeded the HSA. For most people they would end up paying annual family premiums of $2400. If somebody got significantly sick, the total out of pocket for the employee would be $4400 ($2400 premiums+$2000 of the deductible not picked up by the employer). Who wouldn't want a plan like that? That plan no longer exists due to Obamacare. His company is having to come up with an extra $160,000 in employer costs and the employee costs have doubled.
And the Republicans are sporadically trying to actually offer Fixes for
the Zerocare that absolutely will not work in a free society without being
forced at the end of the Assault Weapons the left so much despise, unless those
guns are being used for their Agenda.
Our Government on both sides will never admit failure which is why it's
up to the Citizens to realize once again that WE The People have the ultimate power
and must exercise that power before it's taken away by the Tyrannical dictatorship
elected in both the Republicans and Democrat houses. They need to know who they work for!
Some users who fill out applications on the federal site may believe that they’re already being enrolled in Medicaid or that state officials will contact them, even though the agencies aren’t receiving the information they need, said Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. The data transfer problem is occurring in the 36 states where the federal site is deployed, regardless of whether they chose to expand Medicaid.
“Essentially, if you’re a consumer on healthcare.gov, it will tell you you’re eligible for Medicaid and the state agency will take care of it, but there’s no real way for the state Medicaid agency to know anything about it,” said Salo, who leads the nonpartisan membership group for state Medicaid chiefs....."
This is like the fat guy stuck in a water slide, in need of sending down a handful of slim people to unplug the clog.
The likely result of this?
OMG how do you pack so miuch stupid into one article?
This libtard blames the GOP for Obamacare failure, because GOP-controlled states (which tend to be ‘poorer’) refused to set up Obamacare in their states (or something- the stupid was too strong to comprehend)
The idiot GOP party needs to stomp on this “GOP is to blame” meme with both feet. The Dems got EVERYTHING they wanted- The GOP tried to STOP this train wreck from happening.
Just wait for the stories about not just Grandma and Grandpa ‘passing on’ but Mom and Dad’s insurance wasn’t ‘good enough’ and they died from ‘whatever’ and then little Johnnie and Mary found out that the house they were living in with them now belongs to the Government and they must now leave.
Oh yes, forget any ‘collectibles’ going with you because the tax man and probate already took them so as to pay for the ‘Insurance’ that wasn’t good enough and ended up letting Mom and Dad die because the ‘Death Panel’ said they weren’t good enough ‘productive citizens’.
The sheeple will put up with nickel and diming them as long as the bite is small. But losing loved ones and the ‘inheritance’ too? I think a lot of squishy democrats will be getting their mugging and turning into conservatives.
Why? Well they all don’t live in crime infested cities or behind the walls of gated communities. But they all have parents and the effects of Obamacare will slam them in the face when it effects them and their loved ones let them know all about it before they ‘pass on’.
Very funny.
Thanks.
:)
It doesn't matter. The government will just dig deeper into the pockets of all taxpayers and declare victory.
....just forget the fact that 70% of the American citizen NEVER WANTED IT AND DON’T WANT IT NOW...it’s a ponzi scheme ran by a Marxist Muslim who can’t tell the truth. What could possibly go wrong?
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