Posted on 04/01/2014 2:03:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing
April 1, 2014
It’s like deciding half-way through a semester that getting a D+ will be OK then pretending you’re Einstein reincarnate when you do. Through the miracle of almost no memory whatsoever, the lefty cheerleaders are celebrating the “OMG-SEVEN MILLION!” number like the parents of the paste-eating kid who finally wrote his name legibly for the first time in the fourth grade.
Eric Boehlert at Media Matters is beside himself, dreaming of extra lap time with Uncle George.
Just three weeks ago the Associated Press reported the Obama administration needed “something close to a miracle” in order to “meet its goal” of enrolling six million people into private health care plans via the Affordable Care Act before the looming April 1 deadline arrived.
The article’s premise was telling in that it focused on what the political fallout would be if Obamacare sign-ups fell short. Noticeably absent was any analysis of what an Obamacare deadline success would look like or what the political implications would be. The scenario of success simply wasn’t considered plausible or worth addressing.
Of course, we now know that as many as seven million people enrolled for private coverage through the exchanges established by Obama’s health care law. Thanks to an amazing consumer surge in the month of March, the seven million mark, routinely thought of last year as completely unattainable, and often dismissed this year as not possible, was met.
Think Progress is less emo about the whole affair than Boehlert, but then most teenage girls are less emo than Boehlert.
Ben Domenech at The Federalist reminds us that this celebrated seven million figure is merely around half of what the CBO predicted after the Supreme Court decision.
Byron York explains how a couple of modest tweaks could have achieved pretty much the same thing without screwing up the entire American health care system.
Now everybody get out there and tell your bosses that you’ve exceeded your revised work goals for the week but expect to get paid the same and praised in the process.
Local media even worse.
I have been predicting (an easy call, really) for the past two weeks that The Magic Negro would somehow conjure >7 million sign-ups by the end of the phony enrollment period. And...sho ‘nuf!!
Perhaps the plan would be even better with one Billion sign ups...’cause signups are the goal, right? Maybe they can get their OFA drones to sign up 50 times each (and not pay).. That’d help, right?
Back in the days of Bush the Cruel, weren’t there supposed to be between 30-47 MILLION UNINSURED, and what a national disgrace that was!? /sarcasm
Still, I ain't cuttin' them any slack!
I thought there were 31 million uninsured back when Obama was shilling his plan.
Now, all of a sudden, 7 million is considered great?
And what percent of the 7 million is legit?
They are LIARS all the way.
Describes this entire fluster cluck.
Referenced in the article and well worth the read:
It’s a crock all ‘round
Less than 1 million (est. 858,000), that’s all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3139800/posts
And for that, the Democrats wrecked the finest health care system in the world.
Funny, I just happened to look up the meaning of "pigeon chess" the other day, in another context.
It describes this Mariel cockfight of self-congratulation to a tee.
Communists always destroy what they do not control; and if they cannot destroy it, they maim or disfigure it; and if they cannot maim or disfigure it, they tar it and besmear it; and if they cannot tar it, they lie about it and call it names.
Because they're always right and they never lie; and if you disagree, you'd better start looking over your shoulder.
Good points all.
We’ve known about the roots of the current threat for many years now, but it’s always worthwhile to be reminded of them...
Thanks for the link.
The “Deadline” is smoke and mirrors at best.
There is no “Deadline” if:
(1) You apply for Medicaid (In Washington state, new Medicaid applications outnumber “Paid Policies” by 3 to 1).
(2) You get married.
(3) You lose your job.
(4) You are Native American.
There are a couple more exemptions I can’t recall at the moment.
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