Gitzo Loc: Indiana

5-13-14 / Article by; Michelle Malkin


At the end of 2013, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had some nasty words for yours truly. Irked that I used my Twitter feed to criticize her Obamacare propaganda efforts, Wasserman Schultz snarked back at me:
"Thanks for spreading the word! You'll be eating them next year. #GetCovered."

Classy as always. And completely wrong-headed as usual. Less than three months into 2014, how's dutiful Debbie and her Dear Leader's pet government takeover program doing? The most recent retreat measures -- call it the Obamacare Endangered 2014 Midterm Democrats' Rescue Plan -- include:

--Allowing insurers for two extra years to continue selling plans that otherwise would have been banned by Obamacare. Last fall, Americans across the country and from all parts of the political spectrum raised an uproar in the wake of millions of Obamacare-induced cancellation notices on their individual market health plans. President Obama trotted out a "keep your plan" Band-Aid effective through this year. Now, the "transitional period" will extend through October 2016 and cover policyholders until the following September, after Obama is safely out of office.

--Extending the open enrollment period for 2015 from November 2014 to February 2015, a month longer than originally scheduled. (It will no doubt be extended again as the midterm elections get closer.)

--Relaxing eligibility requirements for insurers to qualify for financial help under a three-year program intended to cushion insurers' costs of complying with Obamacare mandates.

--Exempting labor unions, universities and other self-insured employers from paying a fee that creates the above-noted fund.

In addition, the White House last month allowed medium-sized employers an extra year to comply with the Obamacare mandate to offer insurance to all full-time workers and reduced the percentage of workers that large companies are required to cover. These latest regulatory walk-backs by administrative fiat all come on the heels of dozens of administrative delays and rollbacks.

While Democrats complain about Republican Obamacare repeal efforts, we may be nearing a special inflection point at which the White House will have reneged on more Obamacare regulations than it's actually enforcing!

Remember: In November 2010, the White House began issuing thousands of waivers to unions, cronies, businesses and organizations that offered affordable health insurance or prescription drug coverage with limited benefits outlawed by Obamacare. The federalized health care architects had sought to eliminate those low-cost plans under the guise of controlling insurer spending on executive salaries and marketing. Despite the waivers, the mandate has led to untold disruptions in the marketplace and has prompted businesses to cancel the beneficial plans altogether and/or slash wages and work hours.

In April 2011, Obama signed a bipartisan-backed law repealing his own onerous $22 billion Obamacare 1099 tax-compliance mandate that would have destroyed small businesses inundated with pointless paperwork.

Last March, with the support of several key Democrats, the Senate voted to repeal the Obamacare medical device tax. But the vote has not been enforced. Device makers have cut back on research and development. And according to the medical device manufacturers industry group AdvaMed, the punitive tax has forced companies to lay off or avoid hiring at least 33,000 workers over the past year.

In December and January, when Wasserman Schultz was busy acting like a 2-year-old in response to Obamacare critics, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was busy:

--Delaying premium payment deadlines.

--Delaying high-risk insurance pool cancellations.

--Delaying equal coverage mandates that force companies to drop health benefits rewards for top executives.

--Delaying onerous "meaningful use" mandates on health providers grappling with Obamacare's disastrous top-down electronic medical records rules.

While Wasserman Schultz defiantly claims all Democrats will proudly run on health care in 2014 and 2016, endangered Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina was caught on camera just last week literally running away from a journalist who dared to ask her about the 24 times she falsely promised that if you liked your plan, you could keep it under Obama.

It's not just Hagan; every vulnerable Senate Democrat who rammed Obamacare down America's throat is now running for the hills. When the White House now talks about the "Get Covered" campaign, it's not about ordinary Americans getting health care. It's about covering the backsides of the Obama water-carriers who may very well lose their jobs. They're not just eating their words. They're choking on Obamacare's massive, inevitable, job-killing, life-threatening failures.

I'd like to tell bratty Wasserman Schultz that Obamacare critics will have the last laugh. But we're too busy weeping at the senseless government-induced wreckage around us.
End of article.


Comments;
Notice anything strange here? Special "deals" for all "FOOs" (Friends of Obummer )......The "monstrosity" is so damned bad that they have to "implement" it piece-by-piece, (kinda like boiling a frog ).....keep, turning the heat up slooooowly!
Companies laid off 33,000 workers so far, four times that many go from full time to part time......yeah....it's sure doing "great"! (not )

Worst Head Of Hair Propagandist; D. Wasserman-Schultz


Looks Like "Hubby" Has Been Taking "Selfie's" With Danish Blondes Again!

DougW Loc: SoCal

Government programs sooooo good;
You are forced to participate at the point
of a gun.

knock knock -- health care at your door


bàaa socialism good conservatives bàaaad

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

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It's great to see that there is still at least one sensible person left in "La-La-Land"!

Rbode Loc: Ft lauderdale, Fla

Debbie Washerwomen-Chavez is a walking, talking, lying moron.
A Nazi Pukelosi in training.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

There is something here I can hardly understand. Why if Obamacare is so good it is not compulsory for those in the government to have it?

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I have insurance through my employment - so it's not compulsory that I have Obamacare either. Besides - you obviously do not understand that "Obamacare" is not an insurance plan by the government. It is a collection of requirements that insurance companies must meet as well as the establishment of insurance clearinghouses that allow individuals to purchase their own individual policies. If I were to purchase an "insurance policy through one of these "Obamacare" clearinhouses it would not look much different than my current policy and in fact might be offered by the very same insurance company that I currently have insurance with.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

They are the anointed ones who are too high up for what is good for the rest of us.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Again, the right wingers continue to whine about Obamacare, which is an effort to help all Americans have access to health care - and yet even after all these years to think about it - they have NOT come up with an alternative! When Romney did it in Massachusetts, even the Heritage Foundation thought it was a great idea, so apparently, even nut-jobs like Malkin only have a problem with it when it is offered up by a black president.

And - exactly WHAT aspect of "Obamacare" is so disturbing? No exclusion with pre-existing conditions? Your children being covered under your policy until the age of 26? The new provisions to protect against Medicare Fraud? Eliminating the Medicare Prescription donut-hole the Republicans left? The fact that more Americans now have health insurance than ever? If it is just the mandate that bothers you - then SAY that it is just the mandate, and then let's explore other funding options. Oh - that's right - you simply don't care if our fellow citizens lack health care. I forgot.

Ambrose Loc: North America

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Alfresco

It goes deeper than that, Obama is a black Democrat president. No matter what he says or does, it's wrong! It must be, it has to be, because he's a Democrat! I know, personally, people who's lives have been changed by ACA and have purchased health insurance through The Affordable Care Act. People having health insurance isn't going to ruin the country.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

You're missing the bottom line !!

Who is going to pay for it ???

When it all started there were only 30 million uninsured people.
60 million was paid just for a website alone that didn't work.
Why not just hand the uninsured people 1 million each for their healthcare and be done with it. We would have been many trillion dollars ahead.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

Again !!

Who is going to pay for it ??

DougW Loc: SoCal

Now we can " Lean Forward "

venturer9 Loc: Newton, Il.

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OK... The mandate is very problematic to me...have always said that.

OK... The Tax Penalty if I do not obey and apply.

OK.. 37 times.... 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan' http://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/

OK... The Last time I bought Regular Health Insurance (I now have supplemental Health Care Ins.) I had two conditions that I am constantly being told on these forums would have kept me from getting Ins.. Heart Problems & Previous Cancer....I got good coverage Ins. at what I considered a reasonable price and it served me well until I cancelled it when I went on Medicare.

OK... last but certainly not least is you and so many others on these forums accusing me (the great me) of ONLY being against it because our President is Black. In the first place you have no idea of my opinion of a Black Person. and in the Second Place, As often as this accusation is being made ANYTIME President Obama is criticized almost leads one to think that a paper has been circulated to all Democrat Voters to make sure that it is used to vilify those who are not in love with him.


Maybe not all is as it seems....

http://www.cato.org/policy-report/januaryfebruary-2008/lessons-fall-romneycare

One Paragraph in the Article....but read the whole article..
"""""Before RomneyCare was enacted, estimates of the number of uninsured in Massachusetts ranged from 372,000 to 618,000. Under the new program, about 219,000 previously uninsured residents have signed up for insurance. Of these, 133,000 are receiving subsidized coverage, proving once again that people are all too happy to accept something "for free," and let others pay the bill. That is in addition to 56,000 people who have been signed up for Medicaid. The bigger the subsidy, the faster people are signing up. Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage.""""



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81837.html


“The reality is it performed very poorly,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and president of the American Action Forum. He’s one of the most vocal critics of the plan. “A huge mark against it is it didn’t control health care costs at all.”
Health care costs per capita were 27 percent higher in Massachusetts than in the rest of the country in 2004, two years before the state plan was signed, Holtz-Eakin says. By 2009, it was 30 percent higher than the national average.
The law’s failure to rein in health care costs is widely acknowledged by nonpartisan analysts, as well as conservative critics. But there’s more material for critics to work with if either party wanted to use it. For example, emergency room use has gone up, not down — undermining the law’s effort to get that problem under control by expanding coverage.



Mike

James Shaw

Well, what kind of a "tea-bag" should replace Obama? Are there any real choices out there? Time to start talking seriously about whom should replace Obama.