Just as I’ve written many times, some of the best insight on American news can be found not in the US via what I call the American Media Maggots, but in UK news. To wit, from the UKDailyMail: 
‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’: Obamacare confusion reigns as frustrated patients walk out of hospitals without treatment
Wow. That was certainly unforeseen, wasn’t it?
- MailOnline spoke with patients who were told they would have to pay their bills in full if they couldn’t prove they had insurance
- One was faced with a $3,000 hospital room charge and opted to leave the hospital after experiencing chest pains
- ‘Should I be in the hospital? Probably,’ she said
- Another, coughing in the cold, walked out without receiving a needed chest x-ray
- Consumers face sticker-shock from medical costs under the new Obamacare system, made worse if they can’t prove they’re insured
- As many as one-third of new enrollees’ applications have seen problems when the government transmits them to insurance companies
By David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
Oh, but ladies and gentlemen, the pain and clusterfuckery has just started! This is Obama’s SCOAMF Gefuckishness in its infancy! It’s just a little lizard — soon to grow into a real fire-breathing dragon.
Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.
Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it.
In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford.
‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’ a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.
She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray.
‘The people in there told me that since I didn’t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,’ Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It’s not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.’
The x-ray’s cost, she was told, would likely be more than $500.
This is nothing more than what was already prognosticated in November, wherein it was noted that the ACA ObamaCare website builders knew in March that it wasn’t going to work and that, even in September, there was 60% to 70% of the website yet left to build AND, further, the back end of the site wasn’t communicating to the insurance carriers themselves.
Meaning: what is experienced now was already foretold, but no one in government was apparently listening or cared. People signed up on the site only to not have the site migrate the information over to the carriers themselves. An individual could believe they had signed up for ObamaKare — and been told them had done so — only, now, to discover their insurance carrier has no record whatsoever of said signing.
“What we’re discovering is that buying insurance is a
little more complicated than we thought.”
– Barack Hussein Obama
This is the same man who demanded that insurance carriers conform to Obamacare, and now demands the insurance carriers not conform to Obamacare. The same man who can, by dint of a verbal decree, change the ACA as he wishes, at the drop of an illegal hat.
This was an overtly naked takeover of 1/6th of the entire national US economy at the behest of all the Demorats and none of the Republicans, in the dark of night, on the weekend.
Obamacare came by Dictatorial Fiat, then and now. Mr Obama has NO Constitutional authority to make ANY of these changes.
Yet today: imagine your chagrin.
Imagine you had input a massive amount of your personal information into the healthcare.gov site, and you were stonewalled for minutes or hours or perhaps days. No telling.
Then imagine your chagrin when you discover you are not covered because the “back end” of the ACA site didn’t manage to communicate with the insurance provider you chose.
Welcome to your new 2014 ObamaCare ACA reality, people.
BZ
A naked takeover of 1/6th of the entire national US economy at the behest of all the Demorats and none of the Republicans.
Obamacare came by Dictatorial Fiat, then and now. Mr Obama has NO Constitutional authority to make ANY of these changes.
After Mr Obama said again and again and again:
Clusterfuckery is exactly what you said !!
And this illegal president is off with his she-boon on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
This is just the beginning !!
You know, Mr C, Obama is simply tasked with such work. He needs an escape valve like Hawaii in order to re-group and continue to determine how he will gefuckulate the United States of America.
BZ
A small hope. In Colorado, overreaching arrogance came back to bite three State Senators, and it was done by pretty much average (highly motivated) citizens.
Perhaps this President’s overreaching arrogance will spark a surge of highly motivated citizen activism. Consider, that less flagrant arrogance sparked the start of the Tea Party movement.
I wish that were a norm but, WSF, I fear that Colorado was the exception and not the norm in that specific case.
That would NOT fly, for example, in Fornicalia. Too many Leftists and too many welfare frauds and Free Cheesers.
BZ
Yeah, Kaiser threw INNOVA hospitals out of their network..
Wonderful.
:^(
BZ
“What we’re discovering is that buying insurance is a
little more complicated than we thought.”
– Barack Hussein Obama
Well there we have it. Insurance is too much for him to handle. Then how could anyone possibly expect him to deal with, oh I dunno, Iran? Or Syria or any other little ol’ situation. Simply frightening to hear the president make such an idiotic statement. Maybe he’s striving for sympathy: Hecky darn. The poor dear. Flummoxed by insurance buying. Must be above his pay grade.
Amateur hour in the WH. Again. I hope the midterms hand him a resounding slap in the face.