Posted on 12/06/2013 8:09:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Friendly fire from antsy Democrats:
Anger among Democrats over the rollout of ObamaCare is deep. The third aide, who works for a senator up for reelection in 2014, said the White House had “s--t the bed.” Now, the staffer said, the president’s sinking approval ratings are an additional problem. “Everyone recognizes that our electoral process is tied to the president’s standings,” the aide said. “I think it’s in everyone’s best interest to get the site working again.” During one recent caucus meeting, a few senators grumbled while McDonough sought to ease their discomfort. And one senator stood up and asked for a political point of contact at the White House. “No one really knows who to turn to over there anymore,” one Senate staffer explained. “No one knows who handles what. I think that’s part of the problem.”
Maybe this unnamed source is unusually cheesed off with the president because DC's exchange website broke down for Congressional staffers yesterday. In any case, Team Blue is deeply invested in the fallacy that once the tech issues get cleared up, Obamacare will magically rebound -- or at least fade as an issue. This is delusional. Republicans didn't run against Obamacare (and win) in 2010 based on dire predictions that Healthcare.gov would be a humiliating technological basketcase. That self-inflicted wound is political gravy for the GOP. They turned the public against the law by sounding the alarm that Obamacare would cost too much, dump people from their coverage, limit access to care, and raise premiums -- all of which were dismissed as vicious lies and smears by the law's backers. Oops. The website will get fixed eventually, although not before more awful snafus and failures harm a lot of people. But once that credibility-destroying chapter is finally over, the unfixable substance of the law will remain in place. A functioning website won't help Obamacare when premiums increase again next year, or when millions more Americans lose their existing coverage. If anything, Democrats are still supplying Republicans with fresh ammo for future use. Here's a CBS News clip from last week featuring several bytes of Jay Carney still assuring consumers on the employer-based market that they have nothing to worry about (scroll ahead to 1:30):
CBS: ObamaCare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers
Come next year, this betray will scorch massive swath of the population. What new feeble spin will Harry Reid invent to try to explain that away? What will Democrats tell people like Joel Lund and his family:
Health Insurance Costs Nearly Double For Boise Man
"We're going to go from paying about $770 a month, which we were paying up until October, to about $1300. I don't see how that helped. From an emotional point of view, I don't think you can really prepare yourself for it. The unbelievable complexity of it. The lack of transparency of it. The horrific surprises."
Don't miss the interview near the end of the report with an insurance broker who says Lund's experience is pretty commonplace among her clients. "Anecdotes!" Unlike ordinary people like this, of course.
Again - not everything is an editorial.
Wow ... sounds like something out of the Third Reich or the USSR.
Excellent!!
But is this collapse really a success for Obama? He will have destroyed the private health insurance industry along with many health care providers. He is burning the bridges behind us and he will then demand full government run and provided health care or there will be no health care, at all, for most Americans.
And by proving that government really CAN’T do this, he has set Liberalism back by 30 years.
I try to remember
Or not. Maybe it is better to keep them in the dark about how much their premiums and deductibles are going to be jacked up for treatment they are unlikely to use. It might actually be more wise politically to delay some of the backlash until people actually have to go to a doctor.
Luckily we don’t have to purchase Obamacare through the exchanges.....for now.
I looked on the CoveredCa site and the insurance available I would NEVER purchase because it is so expensive and is really bad.
I am beginning to see that his main goal follows a pattern -
to afflict the comfortable, ie, to punish those who are doing well due to their responsible lifestyles.
The main goal of Obamacare could indeed be to take away the insurance of those that make provision for it out of their own responsibility.
Obama and his cronies like Pelosi said the government can force Americans to buy a product even if they don’t want it. The Supreme Court ruled the government can force Americans to buy a product even if they don’t want it; however, the American people are saying that they will not buy a product they don’t want.
And for all you wusses and naysayers--Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Boehner, ObamaCare WILL BE repealed--before or as pitchforks arrive at the White House. Everyone is taking Obama serioulsy as he continues to play the country. He has no choice but to move forward, even as the CCity burns all around him. And it is, in fact, BURNING!
History repeats. Sounds like FDR again in so many ways.
Let’s hope that 2014 throttles the WhiteyHut enough to keep them from seeing FDR’s saving grace (war) as their way out.
$6360 additionally...for 2014. It will be more in 2015, guaranteed.
So when the idiots actually get the website to work, people will get on the site and find out that they have to pay more for less.
They can take comfort that social justice is being remedied and the wealth gap is being cured. But reality is like a hypodermic needle.
They, overwhelmingly, won't give a rat's nest about the uninsured and folks with pre-existing conditions. Let the games begin.
If it begins seriously looking like “Massive Democrat defeats in the midterms”, look for the dems to jump ship and start screaming for full veto proof repeal.
*Obamacare . . . we told you so . . . idiots*
Now we have some idea of how Noah felt.
“Rain?!
You mean to tell me that water will come from the sky?!?!?
It’s never been done.
It’ll never happen Noah”
*Obamacare . . . we told you so . . . idiots*
Now we have some idea of how Noah felt.
“Rain?!
You mean to tell me that water will come from the sky?!?!?
It’s never been done.
It’ll never happen Noah”
And what’s more, that big boat you’re building is
OFFENSIVE.
By building it, you are telling us that only YOU will be saved, and not us, like we’re somehow condemned. That makes us ANGRY!
You’re saying that push will come to shove. I expect that you’re right.
Youth, which they have spent the last 12-16 years indoctrinating against any notion of nation or civic duty.
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