Even the leftest of Leftist sites, this time the Huffington Post, admits that ObamaKare is a complete disaster. HuffPo actually wrote:
Obamacare Website Failure Threatens Health Coverage For Millions Of Americans
A broken website imperils the largest expansion of the American safety net since the Great Society.
More than two weeks into the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website created by President Barack Obama’s health care reform law still isn’t working right.
The stakes are high for uninsured people, individuals and families who buy their health insurance directly and the entire health care industry. Without a functioning health insurance exchange, many people too sick or too poor to get health insurance under the old rules will remain shut out of the system. The millions of Americans who already buy their own insurance will face major disruptions. Health insurance companies could experience a nightmare scenario where the bulk of the individuals who brave the frustrating sign-up process are those who are sick, desperate for coverage and expensive to treat.
And anyone who isn’t able to get coverage because of the exchanges’ problems could confront the prospect of tax penalties through no fault of their own.
The administration won’t say how many people have signed up so far, but its reported goal of enrolling 500,000 people this month appears difficult to reach.
And that is an incredible salient and highly-ignored sentence.
If ObamaKare was such a wonderfully popular drug, if it were cost effective and efficient and sprinkled lovingly with flaked gold and laudanum as portrayed by Mr Obama — you can be assured that you would hear the literal and physical statistics of its success trumpeted from the highest minarets throughout the land.
Instead, the Obaka Administration is stonewalling actual figures to anyone and everyone, including Left Wing sites. This withholding of numbers bespeaks volumes — meaning: Obama’s rollout is a frakking bust. With such a willing load of media water carriers in the guise of the tongue-lolling American Media Maggots, it helps if there’s actual water to carry.
Isn’t it odd how Paul Ryan was absolutely prescient when he said:
“The bill is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors.” Truly. Give the piano player a drink because he’s bringing me down.
Despite the fact that Mr Obama outright and bald-faced LIED when he said:
The plans are all more expensive due to your loving federal government. The Affordable Care Act was the result of what Leftists portrayed as a crisis-crisis-CRISIS and now — today — sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to not provide an omelette to anyone at all.
Original estimate for the ObakaKare website: $93 million dollars. It now costs $500 million dollars, and the forecasted estimate for the cost of this site by the end of November = $1 billion dollars. The ACA team had THREE YEARS to work on this. And http://www.healthcare.org is what you get. The site has a 10X cost over-run. This week.
But here’s the unspoken truth about the actual runout of ObakaKare:
Rush on Medicaid could spell trouble for ObamaCare’s health
by Judson Berger
While virtually all the ObamaCare focus is trained on the program’s dysfunctional website, another problem could be emerging — in states where individuals are able to sign up, far more are enrolling in Medicaid than private plans.
For now, the statistics are spotty. The Obama administration still hasn’t provided figures on how many people have successfully enrolled through the federally run exchanges. Some, but not all, states have provided their own relatively up-to-date figures.
But for those that have, the lopsided numbers show Medicaid is getting the lion’s share of enrollees.
“There are a lot of elements of this law that have to work, that must work — otherwise the whole thing collapses,” the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon said. “They need — need — lots of healthy people to sign up for insurance through the exchanges.”
The main reason the Affordable Care Act mandated that individuals buy insurance was so that private insurers would get enough young, healthy people in the system who could offset the costs of covering older and sicker patients. Otherwise, at the very least, costs will skyrocket for those in the system.
In other states, Medicaid is also by far the more popular choice of those enrolling this month.
The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper reports that in New York, nearly 24,000 of the 37,000 newly enrolled residents are going into Medicaid, which millions of New Yorkers are already on. Just 13,313 chose private plans.
Uh-oh.
BZ
I rented a small cottage on the periphery of the mighty Pacific Ocean, near the diminutive town of Medocino, in Occupied Fornicalia.
My dog, Teddy, at alert. What he’s seeing, below.
Wonderful buck, directly below the cottage (in the cove), less than twenty yards from a pounding Pacific Ocean.
The village of Mendocino, Fornicalia.
US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helo, manufactured by Eurocopter, is a twin-engined turbine powered variant of the French-built Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin. This helo was assigned to look for a possible jumper from the Big River Bridge.
USCG’s 47′ motor lifeboat cruises around the area where the “jumper” may have been. Unfounded call. Code 4.
The gazebo directly outside the cottage window. Cove behind, 100′ down.
The fog, creeping in on little cats’ feet.
Speaking of little cats’ feet: the owner’s older gray cat at the gazebo.
Rocking with the rollers.
Alone in a vast sea.
The beautiful Pacific Ocean.
Noyo Harbor from the north.
