There were more than eight, though.
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Why is the ObamaCare roll out failing? Because Obama and his lackeys hate government.
Isn’t it obvious?
There were more than eight, though.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why is the ObamaCare roll out failing? Because Obama and his lackeys hate government.
Isn’t it obvious?
They seem to have updated the web site to reduce frustration. The fun begins when you click on “Apply Now.”
That’s the subject of a lot of spam email I’ve been getting lately. The spammers must think it’s a popular topic. š
It isn’t happening:
Questioner: What was the Holocaust?
American College Student: Umā¦Iām on the spot.Questioner: Which country was Adolf Hitler the leader of?
American College Student: I think itās Amsterdam?Questioner: What was Auschwitz?
American College Student: I donāt know.Questioner: What were the Nuremburg Trials?
American College Student: I donāt know.Questioner: How many Jews were killed?
American College Student: Hundreds of thousands.
We’re doomed.
It’s actually a trillion-dollar question: Will enough young people sign up?
Thereās another self-inflicted wound that could prove fatal. Since the ACA allows young people to stay on their parentsā health plans until they turn 26, the law dramatically shrinks the pool of healthy young customers whose overpayments on insurance are supposed to subsidize the middle aged beneficiaries of the law.
…All told, we wonder if Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama are as happy today about Obamacare as they were on the day the law was passed. Beyond that, everything that has happened since passage has confirmed our view that far from solving the problems facing American health care, this poorly drafted, poorly executed system makes the problem of health care reform both more urgent and more difficult.
One of the myriad idiocies about the law is that they let people stay on their parents’ plans until they’re twenty six. Why did these morons imagine that those people that they needed to sign up for their own insurance would do so? It was just part of an incoherent grab bag of goodies they stuffed into the bill to try to sell it to low-infos.
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Don’t worry, GOP. ObamaCare will defund itself:
With only a small penalty for abstaining, the numbers for signing up not only donāt add up ā theyāre absurd. Hereās one of the supposedly attractive deals: āOne option available only to people under 30 is a so-called catastrophic policy that kicks in after a $6,350 annual deductible. In Monroe County, you can buy that policy on the New York State of Health exchange for as low as $131 a month for single coverage.ā
Over fifteen hundred a year for a sixty-three hundred plus deductible? What healthy thirty year old would waste his or her money?
Who invented this plan? Certainly not Obama or Pelosi, neither of whom was paying close attention, I would bet. (Pelosi admitted she wasnāt. All Obama wanted was something to put his name next to, something that sounded vaguely āprogressive.ā)
Neither Obama or Pelosi is smart enough to even understand the problem.
He’s not interested in budget restraint or economic growth. It’s all about crushing his political enemies. That’s a war he wants to win, unlike the real wars overseas, that he just wants to “end.”
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Sorry, link is fixed now.
Californians are in revolt.
What a monumentally stupid idea.
Is it a job only for government employees?
As a commenter over there says, can’t they find some astronomer other than Tyson for an opinion on this?
I’d go further, and ask why they imagine an astronomer knows anything about it.
…than have signed up for ObamaCare. Well, admittedly, it’s apparently a lot easier to do the former than the latter. And they’re not as nosy.
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The health-care web site needs a complete overhaul.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
A round up.
Sadly, some of them inhabit this comments section.
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The abysmal, pathetic ObamaCare roll out:
After the search for bin Laden, the Obama administrationās biggest manhunt has turned out to be for someoneāanyoneāwho managed to actually sign up for and enroll in an insurance plan offered by the federal exchange. As The Miami Herald declared in a recent headline, āObamacare enrollees become urban legend.ā So far, youāve got a better chance of turning up a gerbil escapee scurrying down Richard Gereās leg than finding a couple dozen satisfied customers of healthcare.gov. During a legendarily awful Daily Show appearance, Sebelius lowered expectations yet further by saying that HHS will release enrollment figures on a monthly basis. Right after all the parades for record-setting grain harvests and successful launches of canine cosmonauts.
The first high-profile case of an Obamacare enrollee was paraded around the mainstream media like a captured U2 pilot in the old Soviet Union. But he turned out to beā¦well, not so much. On October 4, my colleague Peter Suderman broke the story that Obamacare poster boy Chad Henderson had not actually purchased insurance for either himself or his father. Hendersonāa paid activist for Organizing for America, an outgrowth of the presidentās re-election committeeāeventually admitted to The Washington Post, āI have not purchased a specific plan.ā
The broken web site didn’t help.