Posted on 10/18/2013 6:50:50 AM PDT by Raebie
Over the last few days, I have spoken in some detail about the state of the federal Obamacare exchanges with several officials of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the HHS agency that is running the exchanges), and with a number of reasonably well placed insurance company officials in Washington. The picture they paint of how the rollout of the exchanges has gone is similar in its broad strokes to what has emerged in other reports in recent days, so I dont think Ill be breaking much news here, though some of the details have (I think) not been reported. For what its worth, I offer below the basics of what they had to say and some reflections on its implications. This is a long post, with apologies, but I thought some of the particulars would be of interest.
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My overarching question about all this agonizingly fruitless analysis of a system that cannot even begin to barely function at any level beyond ‘the few’, is why does the media, academia, health profession, concerned citizens, et al feel it necessary to analyze something that is no more advanced than the pretty pictures my 4 year old grand daughter gives me?
Within the next 3 months, the 0baMao regime will blame the insurance companies for this train wreck.
And without Congressional approval, the regime will unplug the exchanges and impose a new tax (on all of us who pay taxes) for a new Universal Single-Payer coverage.
Maybe they’ll call it SiPa-Care. It will operate like Medicare, and will increase the national debt in similar fashion.
When SiPa-Care creates a rationing mess, how will they blame the GOP for that?
When SiPa-Care creates a rationing mess, how will they blame the GOP for that?
did the GOP give them everything they wanted? every dollar they asked for?
No?
There is your blame.
Plus the GOP runs around with a “blame me” sign on their back and they absolutely suck at deflecting blame. So bad that I think they want to be blamed.
Seriously? The same way they have in the past..
The evil Republicans have bought and paid for the Health Insurance companies, ergo, they have conspired to sabotage the Savior's crowning achievement. It's all an insidious plot by Tea Party extremists, and it's Bush's fault.
The only way to thwart these rascally Republicans is to foist Single Payer Health Care on everyone. It's that simple.
Your argument is better than mine. I envisioned Health Insurance companies still in the picture; they won’t be.
You've had an architect design a one story house. The builder has built it per the specs. The house lacks only interior painting and floor coverings to be move-in ready.
You approach the architect and ask, "How much trouble would it be to add a second story?"
That is very similar to what happened with healthcare.gov.
Exactly.
Except it’s my strong suspicion that the first floor needed a lot more than paint and floor coverings when the demand was made. I don’t think they even had all of the support beams up.
So, the people who have the most to benefit from this have been working hard to get it while the ones who are going to have to pay for it seem to be dragging their feet. Who’d a thunk it.
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