ObamaCare will collapse under its own weight if it goes forward

[American_Jihad]

“I Want People to Have Health Care. I Just Didn’t Realize I Would be the One Who Was Going to Pay for It.”

October 6, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

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There aren’t enough of them. The costs always end up hitting the middle class.

Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

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“There’s going to be a number of people surprised” by their bills, said Jonathan Wu, a co-founder of ValuePenguin, a consumer finance website. “The upper-middle class are the people who are essentially being asked to foot the bill, and that’s true across the country.”

The middle class always has to foot the bill for the Democratic Party’s base which doesn’t like to do things like work for a living.

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?I Want People to Have Health Care. I Just Didn?t Realize I Would be the One Who Was Going to Pay for It.? | FrontPage Magazine

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

If the rightwingers truly believed Obamacare wod collapse....

...why fight it so vociferously?

 

[American_Jihad]

If the rightwingers truly believed Obamacare wod collapse....

...why fight it so vociferously?

PanteWaist, it's not just the right-wingers it's everyone plus you're unions...

Obama’s Labor Pains: Unions Rage Against the Affordable Care Act​

by Patricia Murphy Sep 20, 2013 5:45 AM EDT

Unions were among the biggest backers of Obama’s new health-care law. Now they say they were betrayed. Patricia Murphy on the simmering brawl.

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Three years later, union leaders say the bill they fought to pass now threatens to hurt their own members. At issue are the collectively bargained, multi-employer insurance plans that more than 15 million unionized workers access under the Taft-Hartley Act. Those plans currently allow workers like builders and electricians to change jobs among participating employers and stay in the same health-insurance plan. Because many of the jobs involve manual labor, the plans usually account for injuries and repetitive stresses, benefits that unions say their workers sought instead of higher wages.

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Obama?s Labor Pains: Unions Rage Against the Affordable Care Act - The Daily Beast

 

[SeanParnell]

Perhaps because they'd prefer not to have the U.S. healthcare system collapse?

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama Inc. Gave Failed ObamaCare Website Company a Sweetheart Deal

October 14, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

Questions were raised before why Obama Inc. suddenly began throwing so much money toward a Canadian company with a poor track record.

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It’s not like CGI Federal could be confused with a good company. There were plenty of warnings throughout the whole process that the whole thing was not going to work.

When Canadian officials in Ontario ran into the same problem with CGI… they fired it.

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Obama just kept throwing more taxpayer money at CGI. And the entire ObamaCare setup was reserved for only one company.

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This smells bad. No, it outright stinks. And it merits a serious investigation. Why did Obama Inc. suddenly begin tossing a ton of work to CGI and practically reserve ObamaCare for them?

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But it sounds like their insider Obama contacts were more than unfair.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreen...-obamacare-website-company-a-sweetheart-deal/

 

[American_Jihad]

Government Incompetence to Blame for ObamaCare Website’s Failure

October 14, 2013 By Daniel Green

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The Evil Republicans are naturally the villains who took away that nice Mr. Berwick’s money and left him with only $400 million to blow on a website.

Oh the humanity.

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Government Incompetence to Blame for ObamaCare Website?s Failure | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Thanks To Obamacare, Employer-Based Health Insurance Is Becoming An Endangered Species

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Health Care

 

[Zoom-boing]

If the rightwingers truly believed Obamacare wod collapse....

...why fight it so vociferously?

PanteWaist, it's not just the right-wingers it's everyone plus you're unions...

<snipped for brevity and to draw more attention to AJ's hilarious moniker for "Dante" >

by Patricia Murphy Sep 20, 2013 5:45 AM EDT

Unions were among the biggest backers of Obama’s new health-care law. Now they say they were betrayed. Patricia Murphy on the simmering brawl.

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Three years later, union leaders say the bill they fought to pass now threatens to hurt their own members. At issue are the collectively bargained, multi-employer insurance plans that more than 15 million unionized workers access under the Taft-Hartley Act. Those plans currently allow workers like builders and electricians to change jobs among participating employers and stay in the same health-insurance plan. Because many of the jobs involve manual labor, the plans usually account for injuries and repetitive stresses, benefits that unions say their workers sought instead of higher wages.

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Obama?s Labor Pains: Unions Rage Against the Affordable Care Act - The Daily Beast

tff, best I've seen!

 

[Katzndogz]

obamacare is supposed to fail. Then the democrats could do what they wanted to do all along, introduce single payer universal health care. Then only the party faithful will have medical care. Just like it worked i the old Soviet Union.

 

[American_Jihad]

Media Cover Shutdown Victims over Obamacare Victims 100 to 1​

"Real consequences for real people."

10.17.2013 |Ben Shapiro

Since October 1, when the government shutdown began, the media have run dozens upon dozens of stories about victims of the shutdown. Over the same period of time, the media have run virtually no stories about businesses suffering thanks to Obamacare, low-income people victimized by the new Obamacare tax, and economic chaos thanks to the impact of Obamacare. That’s particularly ridiculous given that with the furloughed federal workers soon to be back at their desks and paid for their furloughed time, the number of people seriously hurt by the government shutdown is minute, as opposed to the widespread damage from Obamacare.

The Washington Post was a key offender in its bias. Between October 1 and October 16, the Washington Post website published over 220 stories both from its own writers and the wires focusing on the supposedly horrible effects of the government shutdown. Most obviously, the Post ran a story declaring, simply, “Government shutdown generates stories of misery around the country.” But when it came to the implementation of Obamacare, though the Post ran more than 80 stories, many of them on failures of the Obamacare website, it apparently ran a grand total of 3 that focused mainly on the individuals and small businesses victimized by Obamacare itself.

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Media Cover Shutdown Victims over Obamacare Victims 100 to 1 | Truth Revolt

 

[American_Jihad]

The ObamaCare death spiral​

By: John Hayward
10/18/2013

Congress is trying to get Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius – who in any sane government would be “former HHS secretary” by now – to testify about the disastrous ObamaCare rollout. She is reportedly resisting these demands, which again should be grounds for dismissal. In the Obama era, top officials have become entirely too comfortable with refusing to testify, invoking the Fifth Amendment, and committing perjury.

But you can see why Sebelius would be reluctant to answer questions from Congress, because on previous occasions, it hasn’t gone well for her. One of her most memorable performances came during May 2012 testimony, when Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) asked her about Barack Obama’s famous promise – now revealed as one of the greatest lies in American political history – that people who liked their existing health care plans would be allowed to keep them under ObamaCare. Even a year and a half ago, it was already obvious that existing coverage was being wiped out left and right, even though Obama swore that “no one will take away your plan, period.”

Sebelius responded by claiming the plans murdered by ObamaCare were doomed anyway, so it was basically a Kevorkian-style assisted suicide. (Just wait until the ObamaCare IPAB starts literally recommending those! It will happen, if ObamaCare is not repealed. You can make book on it. And I’ll give you a sneak preview of how the Left will handle it: they’ll pose as noble defenders of the civil right of suicide, which they’ll portray as a lifestyle choice not unlike abortion, rather than a brutal cost-control measure from a rationing board. Who are you to tell people they can’t have a graceful and painless exit from an unwanted life, you Bible-thumping teabaggers?)

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Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that “health-department officials have pressured insurers to refrain from commenting publicly about the problems, according to executives at four health plans, who asked not to be named.” That should tell you everything you need to know about how things are going backstage at this fiasco. Political goons leaning on captive private-sector vassals to keep the people in the dark? Yes, I do seem to recall that sort of thing happening a lot in certain precincts of Europe, seventy or eighty years ago.

Update: The Heritage Foundation makes a convincing case that, based on the current pace of enrollment, ObamaCare could actually cause a net loss of insurance coverage in the individual market… and that’s not even counting the employer-provided insurance plans that have been dropped because of the Affordable Care Act and its mandates. That’s a pretty steep death spiral.

The ObamaCare death spiral | Human Events

 

[American_Jihad]

ObamaCare Collapses​

October 25, 2013 By Matthew Vadum

Sometimes politics imitates life.

It turns out the pregnant, diabetic woman who nearly fainted in President Obama’s arms at the Obamacare damage-control press event Obama held this week, isn’t herself sold on Obamacare.

The experience of Californian Karmel Allison is a metaphor for the entire rollout of the healthcare exchanges. Failure after failure, glitch after glitch, and spin, spin, spin. Allison was part of the president’s embarrassing media event this week in which a few Americans who somehow managed to sign up for Obamacare online were paraded for the dupes of the mainstream media to swoon over.

Allison’s near-collapse was captured on live TV as she was suffering a dizzy spell. Allison isn’t sure if she will sign up for Obamacare but the Obama White House wheeled her out in public as an example of someone who needs Obamacare. According to the White House:

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This is, of course, a terrible idea. Americans who want to prevent the radical transformation of American society that Obamacare will lead to should do everything they can to keep Sebelius.

Kathleen Sebelius’s monumental mistakes in implementing Obamacare may be the program’s downfall. Let’s hope she continues her fine work.

The ObamaCare Meltdown | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius

October 30, 2013 By Michelle Malkin

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Three years ago, when insurers and other companies had the audacity to expose Obamacare’s damage to their customers and workers, Sebelius brought out her brass knuckles. Remember? As I reported at the time, the White House coordinated a demonization campaign against Anthem Blue Cross in California for raising rates because of the new mandate’s costs. Obama singled out the company in a “60 Minutes” interview, and Sebelius sent a nasty-gram demanding that Anthem “justify” its rate hikes to the federal government.

A private company trying to survive in the marketplace was forced to “explain” itself to federal bureaucrats and career politicians who have never run a business (successful or otherwise) in their lives. Sebelius went even further. She called on Anthem to provide public disclosure of how the rate increases would be spent — a mandate that no other private companies must follow.

In an even more heavy-handed effort to suppress criticism, Sebelius wrote America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of health insurers, “calling on their members to stop using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act.” The threatening cease-and-desist letter commanded: “I urge you to inform your members that there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases. … Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”

The speech-stifling gag order declared war on every opponent of Obamacare who dared to question the administration’s phony claims of cost-savings or expanded access.

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It was a temporary reprieve. Caught with their pants down on the Obamacare website abomination and unable to stifle the cries of millions of Americans who are unable to keep the plans and doctors they like, Sebelius and her corrupt company are now blaming insurers, contractors and customers for the Obama administration’s ideological mess. In short: They lied, but for your own good. Culture of Corruption 101.

The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Sebelius’s Big Day of Big Lies

October 31, 2013 By Arnold Ahlert

Those Americans who watched Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s testimony yesterday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee might be forgiven for thinking they were in an alternate universe. Despite her assertion that Americans should ”hold me accountable” for the ongoing debacle, Sebelius later claimed she was never warned by anyone that the scheduled roll out of the Healthcare.gov website would be the disaster it turned out to be. Furthermore, she stood by the assertion that the president has been “keeping his promise” with regard to the idea that Americans who liked their insurance policies could keep them. Fittingly, during the entire three and a half hours the Secretary testified, the Healthcare.gov website was down.

Sebelius’s contention that she was not warned of the problems with the website is a lie. CNN reveals they obtained a confidential report showing that while website creator CGI executives were publicly testifying about achieving milestones, they warned the administration a month before the launch that there were “a number of open risks and issues” associated with the website.

Undoubtedly, Americans are far more interested in the far bigger lie perpetrated by this administration, highlighted by the exchange between Sebelius and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “Before, during and after the law was passed the president kept saying if you like your health care plan, you can keep it, so is he keeping his promise?” asked Blackburn. “Yes, he is,” Sebelius replied. When Blackburn noted the reality that 300,000 people in Florida and 28,000 in Tennessee had their policies terminated, Sebelius contended that “they can get health insurance.”

The president didn’t promise people they could get health insurance. “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what,” Obama said in remarks made to the American Medical Association in 2009.

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What Americans need to ask themselves is this: is the chaos surrounding the implementation of the healthcare bill, coupled with the explosion of Medicaid enrollments enabled by the same bill, happening by accident or design? “My commitment is to make sure that we’ve got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as President,” said Barack Obama in 2007, at an SEIU union Healthcare Forum. Obama envisioned a 10 to 15 year rollout, and some critics contend the current ineptitude is happening too fast for Americans to swallow a wholesale transition to single-payer government run healthcare.

Yet millions of people losing healthcare coverage, with dim prospects of finding affordable alternatives at this moment in time, could conceivably alter that equation. If there is one thing the massive expansion of the welfare state has proven, it is the reality that a record-breaking number of Americans are willing to be subsidized by their fellow Americans. Furthermore, demonizing private insurance companies that many Americans already hold in contempt, to the point where they would be driven into bankruptcy, is certainly not unimaginable. The president did his part yesterday blaming “bad apple” insurance companies for canceling plans.

Unfortunately for Americans, the demonization may amount to little more than piling on: there is a good possibility the quality of current enrollment is already producing a death spiral in the industry.

The Obama administration has promised to reveal the number of enrollees in the new system the middle of next month. It could be one of the more historic announcements in recent history, as Americans will likely discover just how much of Barack Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” has been realized. In the meantime, Sebelius and company will ostensibly be trying to “fix” the current system. The fix as they say, may already be in.

Sebelius?s Big Day of Big Lies | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Lying to Save Their Skins

November 5, 2013 By Matthew Vadum

Beset by criticism from all sides for its bungled healthcare exchange rollout, the Obama administration expects to weather the growing storm by lying, rationalizing, and running out the clock.

Mendacity, stalling, and stonewalling have worked well as part of a public relations strategy for the Obama administration over its first five years, so there is no point in changing a winning formula now. Besides, extravagant healthcare subsidies begin to kick in next year, and all that free money floating around is bound to calm irate consumers.

America’s first Marxist president has been able to get away with wrongdoing by lying to an incurious, docile media, which he knows has little interest in conducting good faith investigations of the Benghazi saga, Fast and Furious, multiple IRS abuses, and various other administration-wide scandals that have become too numerous to count. Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, is no different.

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Lying has served Barack Hussein Obama well in his career.

Why stop now?



Lying to Save Their Skins | FrontPage Magazine

 

[PredFan]

Obamacare, over 6 people served!

 

[American_Jihad]

The Bad Apple President

November 8, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

Turn on your television. Keep flipping the channels past the infomercials, the reality shows and the music videos and you’ll hear it.

The problem only affects a small (millions large) sliver of the population. The plans being cancelled were substandard. Health plans aren’t lost; they’re transitioning to new health opportunities. The private marketplace was an unregulated Wild, Wild West where villainous deductibles went around with guns blazing through the office of the town sawbones.

The insurers decided to cancel the plans for reasons having nothing to do with the government. These were “bad apple plans” that the insurers didn’t even want to sell anymore. They couldn’t sell the plans anymore because they had changed too much. (Such as increasing the co-pay by 5 bucks.)

Leave the television on CNN, MSNBC or your local news and between weather and sports, you’ll hear these lies peddled by Obama, his advisors and assorted Democratic Party figures reciting the same talking points about the Wild, Wild West where Bad Apple plans roamed the frontier

And every word of it is a lie.

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The American people are being lied to every day by a bad apple president who covers up one lie with another lie and pastes an even crazier lie on top.

Unfortunately their opportunity to trade in their bad apple president for a fully regulated model that is compliant with the United States Constitution and all subsidiary documents will not come again until the next presidential open enrollment period.

The Bad Apple President | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

ACORN Redux: The ObamaCare Navigators Nightmare​

November 13, 2013 By Matthew Vadum

The undercover videographer who helped to kill ACORN is now turning his powerful lens on Obamacare “navigators,” showing how left-wing groups break the law and defraud taxpayers by pushing Obamacare exchanges.

The undercover investigators of Project Veritas, the nonprofit created by ACORN slayer James O’Keefe III, are going after the almost 50,000 Obamacare “navigators,” whom the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says are supposed to “serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling in plans” on the Obamacare exchanges. Left-wing activists have scooped up more than $67 million in grants nationwide to hire the navigators, a payoff to ACORN and other radical outfits that helped win Barack Obama the presidency.

Undercover investigators from Project Veritas captured taxpayer-paid Obamacare promoters on video telling health care insurance applicants to lie about preexisting medical conditions.

A new video shows an Obamacare navigator employed by the National Urban League in Texas counseling an investigator to be untruthful when completing documentation needed to apply for health care insurance on the Obamacare exchanges. The league took in $376,000 from the federal government for its navigator work.

“You lie because your premiums will be higher,” one navigator tells the undercover journalist, who advised the person that he occasionally smokes. “Don’t tell them that. Don’t tell ’em.”

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Remnants of the ACORN network are involved in providing Obamacare navigators too.

United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, is reportedly providing navigators in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. In 1979, ACORN created the United Labor Unions, which it used to organize low-wage, fast-food, and home healthcare workers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas.

ULU 100 is headed by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a corrupt union ringleader who orchestrated massive campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud and who covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving pension funds. Now his navigators have unfettered access to confidential information on thousands of people seeking health insurance. ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nonprofit group that knowingly hired felons convicted of identity theft to work on voter registration drives, giving them custody of sensitive voter information.

As I showed in my ACORN/Obama expose, Subversion Inc., ACORN is also infamous for hiring felons without bothering to do background checks, storming hospital emergency rooms and city council chambers, using voter fraud to turn graveyards across the nation into Democratic electoral strongholds, using mob violence against bank executives and other shakedown targets, and for ruthlessly exploiting its own employees and going to court to seek an exemption from minimum wage laws.

Fund reports that ULU Local 100 is

a “sub-grantee” providing navigators for the Southern United Neighborhoods group, which received a $600,678 grant to promote Obamacare enrollment. It also received a $270,193 grant for similar work in Arkansas and a $486,123 grant for Louisiana. Marcel Reid, a former dissident board member of ACORN who broke with the group in 2008 over its questionable practices, told me earlier this year, “ACORN is forming new groups under new mismanagement, and if Wade Rathke is involved in any of them, it spells trouble.”

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Responding to questions from Sen. Cornyn during a recent congressional hearing, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said it is “possible” that convicted criminals are among Obamacare navigators, who have access to Americans’ personal information.

“Isn’t it true that there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background check,” said Cornyn, “even though they will receive sensitive personal information from the individuals they help to sign-up up for the Affordable Care Act?”

Sebelius replied, “That is true. States could add an additional background checks and other features, but it is not part of the federal requirement.”

Cornyn asked, “So a convicted felon could be a navigator and could acquire sensitive personal information from an individual unbeknownst to them?”

Sebelius answered, “That is possible.”

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Thanks to the excellent, public-spirited work of James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, Seitz-Wald and the other paid professional liars of the left-wing legacy media are going to have to spin harder than that.

ACORN Redux: The ObamaCare Navigators Nightmare | FrontPage Magazine

"hide O’Keefe is coming"​

 

[candycorn]

The people who were sure the Bush tax cuts would work are sure Obamacare will fail.

 

[The Rabbi]

The people who were sure the Bush tax cuts would work are sure Obamacare will fail.

In both cases they are correct.

Look who's stupid now.