Obamacare: A Deception - A Detailed Analysis - Paul Craig Roberts

[Cebu_4_2]

It will be interesting to see the reverse pyramid flocking into medicaid now that the government is re-opened.

That and how much less income people are going to report.

[BrewTech]

I believe they are going to have a lot of people who will not comply. This is revolution territory. Forcing a segment of the population to purchase a product at the barrel of a gun. I have a gut feeling that the peoples gun barrels will start pointing towards those who attempt to enforce this ridiculous law.

I can't afford the coverage, the fines, or the (further) loss of autonomy over my own life.

So, I guess it ain't gonna happen. It ain't gonna happen.

[BrewTech]

I am a specialist.

Me too.

[mamboni]

Well worth a listen, includes details about the astounding hypocrisy and duplicity of Boehner the snake:

[Jewboo]

Insurance exchange director quits, gets contract

[Cebu_4_2]

Politics: CBSNews: ACA website sending insurance companies incorrect info on the few people who manage to sign up

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Image Credit: CBSNews Published by: Robert Laurie on Friday October 18th, 2013

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Uh-oh, more trouble for Obamacare. Why are we not surprised?

By now, everyone knows that Obamacare enrollment is far, far, below target levels. According to a memo uncovered by the AP, the White House was expecting 500,000 signups by November 1st. Their target by the end of the year was 3.3 million. The most recent estimate is that - overall - a measly 51,000 people had actually registered - most of them via state exchanges in California and New York. Granted, that number was released last week so, while it may be a bit higher today, it's still not going to be anywhere near projections.

Now, we're learning that the problems don't end if you manage to claw your way through the healthcare.gov registration process. In fact, a new CBS News report indicates that's just the beginning of the federal system's troubles.

"CBSNews has learned these problems are more than just people trying to sign up. Insurance companies now are reporting problems once people manage to complete their applications. They say the website is generating duplicate and incomplete enrollment forms, suggesting the problems are pervasive."

So, a meager 20,000 people have managed to register via the federal exchange and the system is so badly designed that - even at such bottom of the barrel levels - it can't keep the data straight. Just imagine if the feds actuallyhad gotten the traffic they expected. Sure, it's annoying, but with only 20,000 applications it should be fairly easy to sort out the errors. However, if the Obama administration had gotten the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of new enrollees it expected, the chaos would have been extraordinary.

Apparently, for the moment, the President is lucky no one wants to have any part of his health care scheme.

His problem is that, the more this system fails, the less people are going to want to use it. That's just human nature. If the AP story is correct, the powers-that-be are still expecting a sudden, massive, influx of signups later this year. If they can't get their site under control by the end of the month - and there's virtually nothing to suggest that they can - it's never going to happen.

If, by some miracle, the signups do suddenly jump and this hasn't been ironed out? The administration will be have elevated its fiasco to a whole new level.

The CBSNews report is below. Be sure to "like" Robert Laurie over on Facebook or follow him on Twitter. You'll be glad you did.

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[Horn]

Well worth a listen, includes details about the astounding hypocrisy and duplicity of Boehner the snake:

Persistent problem with the House, any of those elevated to lead it turn Senatorial.

[Horn]

News of Obamacare’s imploding launch went from bad to worse Thursday:

• Soaring cost: The cost of the Healthcare.gov online insurance website soared from $93.7 million to $292 million since April as the Obama administration began pouring money into the project following concerns it was in trouble. According to Reuters, “Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer at the lead Obamacare agency, said at an insurance-industry meeting that he was ‘pretty nervous’ about the exchanges being ready by October 1, adding, ‘let’s just make sure it’s not a Third-World experience.’” Now the House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating the technical problems and contractors who received hundreds of millions of dollars to create it.

• Copyright violation: The Obamacare website has reportedly violated licensing agreements for copyrighted software. The website failed to comply with the user agreement when it removed copyright notices from the software. The company says it will pursue action against the Department of Health and Human Services.

• Minimal testing: The site wasn’t even tested until less than a week before its launch. A person with direct knowledge of the procedures told the Washington Examiner, “Normally a system this size would need 4-6 months of testing and performance tuning, not 4-6 days.”

• Old technology: Technology experts are reporting that the federal exchange was built with “10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system.”

• Nancy Pelosi complains: The glitches have become so bad, even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi – who personally pushed Obamacare through the House when she was speaker – said the system “has to be improved,” though she claims the problems are due to overwhelming traffic. Pelosi added, “I hope that we would have some answers soon and that the answer would be: OK, we’ve found the glitch or whatever it is, it’s been corrected and here’s a demonstration of how people, when they approach it now, will be received.”

• No accountability: White House press Secretary Jay Carney tried to distance the president’s signature legislation from the troubled website, arguing, “It’s important to remember the website alone is not the Affordable Care Act.” But Carney refused to answer whether anyone would be held accountable for the botched roll-out.

• Designers distance themselves: Now even the designers who helped create Healthcare.gov have erased all references to their Obamacare-related work from their firm’s website.

• Contractors fainting: And Healthcare.gov contractors claim they’ve been working themselves sick trying to fix the glitches. “There’s a lot of frustration,” a staffer said. “People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls.”

• Navigators frustrated: Other community organizations and nonprofit groups that had been hired to help millions of Americans sign up for Obamacare are now expressing frustration over the enrollment process. (Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN, is now participating in the Obamacare “navigator” drive.)

• Tremendously low enrollment: Three weeks after the website’s launch, enrollment numbers remain very low. Washington state has only enrolled .36 percent of its population. Only .25 percent of Californians have started applications. Only .08 percent of Nevada’s population has created an account. Just .3 percent of Kentucky’s estimated population has purportedly enrolled. While 28,000 applications were submitted by Kentucky residents, page views were said to have exceeded 5.5 million. About 100,000 New Yorkers were said to have “qualified” for health insurance. Only .22 percent of Minnesota’s population has applied for coverage, but one-third of that number is said to have enrolled. Millard Brown Digital, reporting that fewer than 1 percent of the people trying to enroll in Obamacare had completed the enrollment process in the first week, released the following chart:

• Americans losing insurance: Also Thursday, Americans began tweeting their anger and surprise over insurance cancellations and the higher premiums they will be forced to pay under Obamacare.

• Sebelius won’t resign: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will not resign over the disastrous Obamacare website roll-out despite numerous calls for her to be fired, her brother says, adding, “You don’t resign in the middle of a fight.” Sebelius’ sister told the New York Times, “The White House is smart enough to know that if she steps aside or they ask her to resign, they will never get anybody else confirmed. Plus, I don’t think they hold her responsible.”

• Sticker shock: The Heritage Foundation released the following chart showing that insurance on health exchanges will cost more than existing insurance:
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obamacare...2PstUGBTtVi.99

[mamboni]

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

-Milton Friedman

[EE_]

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

-Milton Friedman

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years the Jews will own it and tax you on every grain.

-EE