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.
Since before it was approved by all the democrats I would tell my liberal friends, “be careful what you wish for.”
In response to the title; net neutrality.
I have no doubt that Obama is planning even worse.
Being burned alive in a cage?
That matters not to the omniscient central planners.
But there is no short supply of those English-as-a-second-language insured who have nothing but great things to say about it in the government commercials.
Here’s just some of the damage in a good breakdown by Ken Morris…
http://www.kenmorris.net/new/78392/content.asp?contentid=2017951759
(h/t friend at work)
IF you want your new coke..you can keep your new coke...
What a dark dank convoluted mess!
Perhaps Guiliani will address this the next time he takes The Great Leader to Task!!
I fear you are right. Obama is in a mad dash during his last two years to do as much damage as possible. He will do everything possible to bring down the country, even importing Muslim terrorists through such vehicles as Syrian resettlement.
Yes, its sitting in the whitehouse.
There is something worse than this atrocity called “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” - it will be the single-payer system based on a vastly expanded form of Medicare and Medicaid for all ages and all comers regardless of legality of residence.
For now, Canada, which has a “single payer” health services delivery system, has an escape for some of the more wealthy of its citizens - they can go to the US and have the procedure done, without the intolerably long wait periods that now exist there. Also, there are a number of procedures available in the US which are either not done at all in Canada, or on such a long wait list that effectively, the option does not exist except for a very few who manage to survive that long.
Soon, the Canadians shall no longer have the option of coming to have the procedures done in that territory once known as “the United States of America”.
Just found out that I will have to pay $500+ extortion to keep the insurance I was am satisfied with. The alternate was a hideous program.
Obamma is and has been above the law, he is attacking the country and half the country is ok with it..
President is an american enemy..
Barack “Selfie-Dick” 0bama
has a nice ring to it ...
Perhaps some kind of pay-for-service treatment could be established on Indian reservations. It would probably be a heck of a lot more lucrative than casinos.
Yes, Obama himself. (Remind again what the GOP plan is to get us out of this mess?)
Yes, it's POS namesake...
You'll yearn for the chaos of today when that finally comes.
“President selfie-stick”
I’m gonna reuse that one!
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