Crowley pointed out to Dean that polls show Americans increasingly believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, especially since Obama's recent foreign policy blunders like Syria and the Obamacare rollout disaster. Dean, however, brushed off the poll and the idea that Obama's presidency would suffer lasting damage from the missteps.For more click Washington Examiner link, which includes a video
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It's not about affordable healthcare, or coverage for all, it's about the ego of Obama, the protection of Obama, and bailout of Obama, and the rehabilitation of Obama's image.
MOSTLY.
See, the dems know their base will love them no matter what. So - mostly. Mostly there will be coverage. Mostly. Apparent functionality is all that matters. Actual functionality can by covered by words, false promises and bad faith.
When Obama promised, over and over "If you like your plan, you can keep it. Period." He didn't add the clarifying "Mostly" and "Apparently". If only, then poor Obama wouldn't be a liar in need of a bailout.
Howard Dean is "apparently functional" says healthcare.gov.
YYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!
"Don't let that computer screen tell you any different." -- Howard Dean
Dean is apparently not functional.
I'm glad Howard Dean is not my physician.
"You're arm is apparently functional, Haz."
"It's broken. It bends where is shouldn't bend."
"It functions. It still supports a shirt and provides attachment for your hand."
"Dr. Dean, I fell out of a tree and broke my arm. I heard it go craaaack. And it hurts like a mofo."
"It's your right arm. Your Tea Party Arm. It wants to destroy America, so ignore it and move on."
"Dammit, doc, there's bone sticking out. It's an open fracture."
"Trust me, your arm isn't broken. You're just trying to take down Barack Obama with your allegations."
"Your arms are at 50% operating capacity. That's good. Just give it some time."
Since Obama is faltering and the left are running out of scapegoats, it appears Hillary's stature is rising. This, according to the pro-Hillary media. Sadly, if the old screeching Queen Benghazi is elected, Obamacare will become HillaryCare and we will be stuck with America's NHS. The left are already setting it up for 2017. Hillarycare will be awesome in 2017! They promise. Please believe.
From insty and the glorious party loyalty NYTimes:
“The problem is that so-called back end systems, which are supposed to deliver consumer information to insurers, still have not been fixed.” -NYTimes
"So while they’ve been pointing at the front, there’s still no backend. It’s a Potemkin website."
-Insty
Mostly.
In the crazy corner - Paul Krugman, the ultimate party loyalty cheerleader, is giddy over the fact that the filibuster rules have been changed so that Democrats in the senate can act like proper Venezuelan-esqe dictators.
painful Orwellian snippet
"...And the biggest savings may be yet to come. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel with the power to impose cost-saving measures (subject to Congressional overrides) if Medicare spending grows above target, hasn’t yet been established, in part because of the near-certainty that any appointments to the board would be filibustered by Republicans yelling about “death panels.” Now that the filibuster has been reformed, the board can come into being." -The eternally creepy Paul Krugman
Let that Brave New World Orwellian freakshow sink in.
"The Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel with the power to impose cost-saving measures."
Wow. A payment Advisory Board with the power to impose cost-savings! We need one of those at every street corner. In every facet of our lives. Think of the savings! yeah. That's not creepy at all.
"The Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel with the power to impose cost-saving measures."
Hey, they got those in Venezuela already!
The gubmint there found "price-gouging" in nearly 99% of 1,705 businesses inspected so far this month.
President Maduro said "capitalist parasites" are trying to wreck Venezuela's economy.
New socialist rules:
• rent controls for commercial properties
• raised interest rates for 'savers on low incomes' to 16%, up from 12.5% currently
• seized a chain of electronics stores and forced the company to charge customers "fair" prices
In unrelated news, Venezuala has recently had shortages of basic items such as chicken, milk and toilet paper. Inflation has been at at 54.3% over the past 12 months.
Paul Krugman simply adores what is happening in Venezuela. The socialist dictatorship fills his dreams at night.
I can't imagine what would happen if we'd sent out software that was "apparently functional" - meaning it crashed when somebody used it.
Looks like Dr Demento got his talking points.
The morning news dump at AoS has a link to George Will from the Sunday shows explaining how Obamacare could meltdown in 2014. I've been thinking this as well, but George seems to only get it half right. George believes employers will start dumping employees to Medicaid and Medicare, which can't quite happen (unless employers have nothing but geriatric and invalid employees). And then (and I think this plausible), doctors will give up trying to get reinbursed and the supply of care will dramatically decrease.
Well, lets look at what is already happening. Supposedly 50 million people didn't have insurance and supposedly they couldn't get healthcare. But they always could, because no hospital can deny treatment for emergent cases. Since Obamacare went into affect; supposedly 100,000 people have signed up, while 1.5 million are estimated to have lost the insurance plans they liked. So their is a net increase to the uninsured, and that includes people who previously were happy to pay for their won bills. Further, the 100,000 people are paying Uncle Sam, but Uncle Sam isn't paying the insurance companies.
On top of all this, we have LIV that believe that Obamacare has issued in the era of free government healthcare (people debate me on this, but it's not hard to find a man on the street that will not claim Obama gave us free healthcare, and that man is a LIV).
So reality is we have increased the number of none paying people seeking healthcare either through Medicare and Medicaid, or by removing their insurance. It doesn't really require employers to do anything more. These seekers of healthcare will put an increased demand on already short supply of true healthcare providers (the ones that actually diagnose and treat, not the ones that sell you a "plan"). It takes some intelligence to learn to be a true healthcare provider; and those intelligent people are not going to continue to offer their time for free, when they can seek other careers that pay.
I think this will take longer than 2014 to fully collapse, but by 2015, employer healthcare plans that were liked will be axed too, and that will add even more burden on the true healthcare providers. And people don't change quickly, so the healthcare providers will continue on a little while, until their backs break and they move on. At that point, it will cascade and quickly.
By the way, one thing not covered by any media is the scoring mechanisms for compensation to the true healthcare providers. It's not based on care, but on customer feedback rating. That is, the customer (patient being treated) can give you a score of 1 out of 5 stars, and you won't get 100% of your fee reinbursed. If you think that's not going to be abused by patients or catered to by foolish administrators; then I'd like to play poker with you sometime.
The cool thing is that the left can collectively push their Venezuelan agenda and hide behind the tired "death panel" canard.
...and the war on women canard.
eeek Sarah Palin takes in air. How dare she. It's her fault!
Quick look over there - death panel squirrel!
"Apparently" how to get the clients' information and payments to the insurance companies isn't working.
Stick that in your Kool-Aid®
Also -- take a look at Matt Labash's description of hanging out at a sign up site in FL for 3 hours the other day. (After the cops are called on the street walkers. ;- ))
Yup. Depends on what you mean by "functional."
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