The Obamacare Follies
The Girl has been covering the Debacle that is the Obamacare rollout over at my Washington Times Communities column. Click the links below and give them a read.
Will America survive Obamacare's implementation? This was written two weeks before the October 1 implementation, and some of my commenters scoffed at me. One word: Schadenfreude.
Like comparing Apple to Obamacare. Week 1 of the rollout went exactly as I suspected, and the administration had the nerve to compare themselves to Apple! Cue the laughter.
This is not the Obamacare exchange you were looking for. No kidding... Two weeks later and still a mess.
The Obamacare exchange's lack of security. If you're an identity thief or a fraudster, the HHS has given you an open invitation with Healthcare.gov and the Navigator program to easily steal from people. Low-hanging fruit.
Conservatives on Obamacare: we told you so. Yeah... enough said.
Back in February, Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reported on the seven million who would lose the employer-based health insurance under Obamacare. That was the CBO's conservative estimate. Now that the biological waste matter has finally hit the circular wind conductor, liberals are now losing their minds, along with their health insurance.
CBSNews.com of all places is reporting that 2 million people with individual plans (read: self-employed) have been booted from their health insurance thanks to Obamacare:
"There have been estimates about hundreds of thousands of people losing coverage, CBS News' Jan Crawford reported on 'CBS This Morning.' CBS News has reached out to insurance companies across the country to determine some of the real numbers -- and this is just the tip of the iceberg, Crawford said. The people who are opening the letters are shocked to learn they can't keep their insurance policies despite President Obama's assurances to the contrary.
"The White House is on the defensive trying to explain it, after Mr. Obama repeatedly said, 'If you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it.'"
Obamacare: more than 2 million people being booted from existing health insurance plans.
The New Yorker--another publication that could not be described as conservative, brilliantly mashed up the many times our dear President made this promise. Social media cuts both ways.
If You Like Your Plan-Supercut
You didn't actually think President Obama meant that, did you? If you did, I have some beachfront property in Death Valley I'd like to sell you.
Debra J. Saunders of the San Francisco Gate reports that the head of Covered California estimates up to 900,000 Californians will lose their health plans on December 31. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
So it's not just the conservatives and Republicans who are calling the Obama administration on the carpet for the lies, now average Americans who are being adversely affected by the implementation of this nightmare are screeching. Amazingly enough, the mainstream outlets are actually doing what Rush Limbaugh likes to call "Random acts of journalism". Who would have thunk?
Health and Human Services Secy Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to testify before the the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday. While she planned to throw the technology contractors under the bus, these contractors stole her thunder by leaking to CNN a confidential report essentially saying that the administration had been warned that Healthcare.gov was not ready for primetime; but they charged ahead anyway. Hubris, thy name is HHS.
The Carney is doing his usual doublespeak and blame, but this time nobody is buying it. He has actually been getting tough questions from the White House press corps. Even the usual shills like Matthews and Co. over at MSNBC seem to be waking from their Kool-Aid hangovers on this one.
The plot thickens, and with Sebelius' testimony, there will be much to write about. In the meantime, I leave you with two more videos that illustrate the lies, incompetence, and rank arrogance that characterizes this presidency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoitccXAWtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYZNbXPBZhY