Posted on 02/21/2015 5:47:58 AM PST by SamAdams76
The frigid winter has gotten even colder for Barack Obama.
President “selfie-stick” just got a snapshot of his troubled Affordable Care Act and it’s starting to resemble an unaffordable debacle.
The latest snafu: Some 800,000 Americans who got their plans on the technologically toxic Healthcare.gov were given incorrect tax forms and will need to “amend” their filings. Don’t worry though, the correct forms are coming ... in March!
Bad news if you’ve already spent your refund. By the way, you’re going to need that refund because anemic enrollment means fewer dollars in the pool and that means premiums will go up, up, up. So much for the “Affordable” Care Act.
Just days after filming a bizarre, celebratory video with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in which the president lauds robust Obamacare enrollment numbers, the administration has also called for a do-over so that an undisclosed number of Americans can sign up, for real this time, and avoid the tax penalty. They’ll have until April 30th to learn to love Obamacare and fall in line.
“It gives you some sense of how hungry people were out there for affordable, accessible health insurance,” Obama boasted in the short video during a performance worthy of an Oscar nod tomorrow night.
“The Affordable Care Act is working.”
It’s working in much the same way New Coke worked. Not at all.
Sadly, Americans never wanted Obamacare and certainly never asked to be treated this way. For a while they nervously endured it as one might an inappropriate shoulder rub from a sitting vice president. But now they’ve come to the breaking point.
Americans don’t like Obamacare. Never did, never will. Obama can run around with the Buzzfeed hipsters all he wants, vamping from between two ferns, hashtagging along with Pajama Boy, but the ACA is a box-office flop.
Last year they popped the champagne after attaining an enrollment goal which last November they admitted was artificially inflated using dental insurance enrollment numbers. This year, the IRS is ready to levy fines on the unenrolled.
Not even eight feet of New England snow can bury the truth. No one wants to climb aboard the USS Obamacare. But for those already onboard, rough seas await. This capsizing ship is like the Winter of 2015 — too big, too intrusive, too dangerous, too expensive and downright depressing.
My copay for prescriptions has increased $2400.00 a year. This is for the basic stuff just to keep me alive.
Bookmark.
FUBAR
He’s taking away access to disagreeable websites, so nobody will hear you complain.
“The Boston Herald” is not State Run Media....it’s a conservative alternative to the larger, liberal, and going broke Boston newspaper, “The Boston Globe.”
Still, the effect is the same cuz, ah, at the risk of invoking a cliche, "the medium is the message."
“Last year they popped the champagne after attaining an enrollment goal which last November they admitted was artificially inflated using dental insurance enrollment numbers.”
Just around 6 months ago or so in the comments section on “The Hill” website I was in a debate with a flaming liberal over this very thing. He kept on calling obamacare a raging success and pointed to the enrollment numbers as proof. I warned him that the administration has a record of cooking the books (census, unemployment, illegal alien deportation, etc) and the enrollment numbers of obamacare was no different.
We kept on going back and forth, him citing the enrollment numbers as proof of the success and popularity of obamacare and me warning him that he is being lied to by the administration because the enrollment numbers are fake.
I also added that sooner or later that the truth will come out and as a result he will come to realize that he has been made a fool of due to him believing obamas enrollment number lies and repeating them as if they were gospel.
He just wouldnt listen to me so I just walked away from our debate, seeing how hopeless it was trying to talk some sense into him.
Well...
WHO IS RIGHT NOW YOU EFFING MORON???????
“We are going to be gifted with a healthcare plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people without adding a single new doctor but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves FRom it and signed by a President who smokes with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefit takes effect by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese and financed by a country that is broke.
“So, what the blank could possibly go wrong?”
Dr. Barbara Bellar, MD
See the video at http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2014/dr-barbara-bellar-sums-up-obamacare-in-one-sentence/
Obama are is the beginning not the end.
A product so good you are compelled by federal law at the point of a gun to buy it.
Yes, ISISCARE, is worse than OBAMACARE!
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