The irony is the outlined target audience, the “twentysomething” Obama-voting crowd….
Forget the numbers, they are embarrassingly shameful all alone – but that’s not the real story…. that story about how low the number is can be subject to spin…. as you’ll see in the next 18 blistering hours. The administration will claim this does not include phone sign-ups or mailed in applications etc.
No, instead focus on the real story. This CMS Obamacare enrollment report proves it is possible for the administration to answer the question. This report proves THEY KNOW each day how many have enrolled…. yet they have claimed they do not know. THAT is the bigger story.
WASHINGTON DC [ Via CBS] Documents obtained exclusively by CBS News show that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are intentionally fudging statistics on enrollment and application through state and federal exchanges.
The notes leave no doubt that some enrollment figures, which the administration has chosen to keep secret, are available. (more…)
It’s somewhat remarkable to watch the left begin to recoil with the recognition Obamacare is going to remove their health insurance options, reduce the standard of care, cost them more money, eliminate freedom and quite frankly lose their Doctor.
The vast majority of freedom minded Americans find one simple word in response. “Duh” !
The reason you are losing your health insurance freedom is the same reason you often have to flush your toilet twice, the government now controls it.
This should not be a surprise. By the time modern regulation #5,265,332.00147 kicked in, progressivism, ie Obamacare, came for your trans-fats.
Now compliant donuts don’t taste like donuts any more; they taste like the newly extinct Styrofoam coffee cups. Then Obamacare’s predecessor progressed to Squiggly lightbulbs that don’t light up enough to read a book. What did you do? You bought a book light. (more…)
Considering 2014 – The Democrats are f*cked !
They built this Obamacare, they own this Obamacare – for our side that awakening is good for us, but that’s not the real concern.
#1) The unified messaging from Republicans is ‘we tried to warn you’.
And #2) A singular voice can lead and give rise.
If that message is repeated, and if a genuine messenger is leading point, Democrats are F*cked. That’s so easily identified, even the media notices it.
But that’s not what stops the hope. (more…)
Pure Cognitive Dissonance !
How much do you want to bet she voted for Obama twice. Typical progressive NIMBY…. Loves them all that liberal stuff, well, until all that liberal stuff actually begins to impact their own life – then, notsomuch. Seriously, who did SHE THINK was going to pay for it? Santa?
I shouldn’t be so hard on all the “Jennifers” of the world; but good grief – we’ve been fighting this thing for four years DESPITE THEM. So forgive me if I’m slow to the touchy feely sympathy thing…
CALIFORNIA – Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don’t like what they see.
These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years.
Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama’s signature legislation.
“This is when the actual sticker shock comes into play for people,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act.” (more…)
[National Journal] It took a tea-party insurrection that disabled the federal government and wrecked the Republican brand, but after months of handwringing, establishment Republicans are preparing to attack ultraconservative ideologues across red America.
Emperor Rove
From Alabama to Alaska, the center-right, business-oriented wing of the Republican Party is gearing up for a series of skirmishes that it hopes can prevent the 2014 midterm election from turning into another missed opportunity. This will not be a coordinated operation. It will be messy, ugly, and prone to backfiring. And if the comeback succeeds, it will be in fits and starts, most likely culminating in the selection of a presidential nominee in 2016.
“Hopefully we’ll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them,” said former Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, whose new political group, Defending Main Street, aims to raise $8 million to fend off tea-party challenges against more mainstream Republican incumbents. “We’re going to be very aggressive and we’re going to get in their faces.”
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Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) one of the Decepticons who voted for Harry Reid’s “cloture” to allow funding of Obamacare, is set to introduce a bill – Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin will propose a new law next week called: “If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act.”
“One of the most important promises made by President Obama and Democrat congressional leadership to promote the Affordable Care Act was that Americans who were satisfied with their health plans could keep them. That promise has been broken. More than a million Americans have been notified that the plans they like with the coverage they have chosen have been canceled. Millions more Americans will have the plans of their choice canceled in months to come,” says Senator Johnson in a statement. (more…)
After delivering racist remarks on “The Daily Show” Wednesday night, North Carolina Republican official Don Yelton has agreed to step down from his position as the GOP’s precinct chairman of Buncombe County. In an astounding display of boldness, Yelton stood by his bigoted comments a day later and claims he said worse things off-air.
…. and when the bough breaks…
CBS’s front man, Scott Pelley, was visibly distraught and filled with tremendous anxiety as he seemed forced to report on the reality – Millions of Americans are losing their healthcare insurance coverage.
The U.S. individual health insurance market currently totals about 19 million people. Because the Obama administration’s regulations on grandfathering existing plans were so stringent about 85% of those, 16 million, are not grandfathered and must comply with Obamacare at their next renewal.
The rules are very complex. For example, if you had an individual plan in March of 2010 when the law was passed and you only increased the deductible from $1,000 to $1,500 in the years since, your plan has lost its grandfather status and it will no longer be available to you when it would have renewed in 2014.
These 16 million people are now receiving letters from their carriers saying they are losing their current coverage and must re-enroll in order to avoid a break in coverage and comply with the new health law’s benefit mandates––the vast majority by January 1. Most of these will be seeing some pretty big rate increases. (link)
Townhall.com outlines even more about the incredible size of the bait and switch broken promise from President Obama: (more…)