Posted on 10/22/2013 4:23:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This has become a major embarrassment to the President. The site doesn’t work AND people are seeing that the health insurance they didn’t want is going to cost them more than they want to pay.
They are even reduced to astroturfing with fabricated success stories. My brother even posted one.
Funny thing. Even if a state decided to not establish its own exchange, and leave that cost to the federal department, the residents of such states still get the federal subsidy. Should it be that way?
Unknowable requirements = unworkable systems
No, and I believe there is a lawsuit challenging the situation. Interesting if it works, because without subsidies, ain’t no one gettin on that train.
Not that I am advocating a misinformation campaign or anything like that, but it would be amusing if thousands of people posted such fabricated stories.
The stories would need to be just a little bit fanciful for maximum effect. "Gosh, but this Obamacare is wonderful. I signed up with no problem. I got full family coverage for just $12 a month. And for an extra $5, I got vet coverage for my dog Wahoo."
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/228724841.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
LINK to another source for this article if WaPo article behind a “limited articles” wall for some FReepers.
which basically means that programmers had unlimited access to all the tables in the various government databases, such as the Social Security (and quite possible bank accounts) . . .
They may not get the Obamascare site going, but they will be very successful in their new hobby of identity theft . . .
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”—Thomas Sowell
Typical liberal incomeptence. They could have contracted Amazon or Google or Yahoo (all ran by left wing libs) three years ago to build the websites.
They handle more traffic in one hour than Obamacare since inception.
Of course, the product still sucks.
A working website would be like any of the innumerable mortgage calculators. Put in your age, number of dependents, location, and whatever minimal health information such as smoking/pregnancy is required. Out pops a set of prices with benefit levels. Put your favorite price(s) in a second calculator with your income from the last 1040 or other tax filing, and out pops your subsidy, if any. I could code that in one day, but then people would know what was going on, and that would defeat the purpose of the $500M DeathPanels.gov website.
If you like Obamaware, you’ll LOVE Obamacare.
Well stated.
Ain’t gonna git any easier.
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