Congressman Bill Pascrell (Democrat – New Jersey) Personifies his constituency.
Yes, if you live in Patterson, Bergen or Hudson County New Jersey (NJ 9th) – this congressman represents you. Nice huh?
CONTEXT FIRST – Tomorrow HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is set to testify before congress. For those of you who are unfamiliar with how congressional hearings work there is a rule of bi-partisan discovery where Dem’s must share information to be used during the hearing with Republicans, and vice-versa.
This is done so that no-one is caught off guard with anything that takes place in the hearings. It’s somewhat of a ruse (under the excuse of professional courtesy) that few people know about. Congressional hearings are investigative only to the extent the questions being asked are not known by the opposing party. However, each knows what documents and evidence the other has walking in.
Why is that pertinent? Simply because when you see the media do these pre-hearing exclusive/confidential document stories you know the source of the leaked intel is the party seeking to diminish the impact. It’s just how they roll. The Dem’s gave this CGI report to CNN so that CNN could write up a story and remove the *shock value* in advance of the hearing.
Washington (CNN) – The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN.
The caution, from the main contractor CGI, warned of a number of open risks and issues for the HealthCare.gov web site even as company executives were testifying publicly that the project had achieved key milestones. (more…)
Yesterday NBC published an article outlining why the Obama Administration cannot feign ignorance as millions of Americans have their health insurance policies cancelled due to Obamacare.
What NBC stated is what hundreds of thousands of people already know – Obamacare is forcing millions of Americans to lose their insurance, pay much higher premiums, get higher deductibles, and in general get less coverage for more money.
The White House and Valerie Jarrett went into immediate attack mode to proclaim the premise as false. They each claimed nothing President Obama or the HHS did created a situation where private insurance polices were/are cancelled.
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) October 29, 2013
So NBC, carrying water for the administration, took down their article and replaced it with another one with a paragraph removed. But various blogs, including us, caught them. Backlash ensued. They were busted – so they replaced the replacement and reinstated the original.
But the key aspect is inside the paragraph they removed and the *risk* to the White House which is evident within it. Here’s what they took out, then put back in when caught: (more…)
Whoopsie – Yesterday evening we shared an NBC Investigative article with an excerpt and link. The article outlined how Obama knew all along millions of Americans would lose their health insurance coverage despite his election year claim “if you like your insurance you can keep it”.
However, just after midnight 10/29 NBC took down the original article and replaced it with THIS ONE creating a broken link. If you compare the two you’ll note NBC took out the following paragraph:
…”None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date — the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example — the policy would not be grandfathered”….
NBC did *not* note their edit – they just deleted the original article and added another albeit modified one in it’s place. You might wonder what took place between the original NBC post, and new, well, less confrontational one.
That is, you might wonder, until you note the date and time of the following tweet:
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) October 29, 2013
Nuf said.
Just Pravda doing what Pravda does best. Supporting The Regime !
UPDATE: Weaselzippers picked up on the NBC ruse also.
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) October 29, 2013
FACT: Insurance companies have to change existing plans to meet the mandatory requirements of Obamacare.
(more…)
UPDATE: Just after midnight 10/29 NBC took down the original article noted below and replaced it with THIS ONE creating a broken link. They took out the following paragraph:
…”None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date — the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example — the policy would not be grandfathered”….
NBC did not note their edit – they just deleted the original article and added another in it’s place. Typical considering what we anticipated below.
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The latest estimate is around 16,000,000 Americans will lose their current insurance. Each will have to pay significantly more for the Obamacare product, most with much higher deductibles. As Congressman Waxman admitted last week, this was part of the design all along.
Now NBC is reporting that President Obama knew this – AS he was saying it would not happen – Meaning, he intentionally lied.
However, as you read the NBC “exclusive”, ask yourself what’s the angle? Because NBC WOULD NEVER, NEVER, publish anything that would hurt this administration p.e.r.i.o.d. So what are they setting up?
(NBC Reports) President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.” (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…)