Nov. 12, 2013, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement in response to a Washington Post report that the Obama administration is padding its Obamacare enrollment figures with those“who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid”:
“The amount of people actually signing up via Healthcare.gov must really be terrible if the Obama administration is already resorting to accounting gimmicks to boost its so-called ‘enrollment’ figures. Seven million people are supposed to sign up by March via the exchanges for 2014, 13 million by 2014, and 22 million by 2016 according to the Congressional Budget Office. If only 50,000 have signed up in the first month, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the administration will be lucky if it gets a million in the next year, far short of its target.
“The implications of this failure cannot be overstated. To the extent that the administration fails to enroll millions of uninsured in the exchanges, everyone’s models of how large the insurance pool ought to be will undoubtedly prove to be wrong. Which, because the minimum coverage requirements have increased so substantially under the law for existing plans, when the non-enrolled millions are not paying premiums into the system to offset the cost, it will mean everyone else will have to pay more.
“No amount of padding its numbers with false enrollees by the Obama administration will change the reality of higher premiums for everyone else. This really is going to be the unaffordable care act.”
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Last night emergency crews raced to the Lincoln Memorial
Everyone stood in eerie silence
Then a small voice was heard to murmur softly what everyone was seeing, ” that is a marble statute, how could its head now be hanging down with one of its hand covering its eyes”
Within seconds a second voice uttered, “well looks like even old Abe is ashamed at what the sons of bitches are doing”
Buck Farack
So far it doesn’t sound or smell like “emancipation” such as—
“(American English: emancipate) — “If people are emancipated, they are freed from unpleasant or unfair social, political, or legal restrictions.”
I thought someone said, “Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?”
Somehow I believe states that decided to run their own exchanges and actually take the Medicaid expansion will be far, far, far better off than those who haven’t.
SC is the epitome of this. I’ll bet we will be sitting here wondering why our state isn’t getting the same amount of benefit out of the ACA that other states are when we fought every provision we could that would have likely made it a lot better for us.
It would have been far cheaper and for more efficent to have simply expanded Medicaid than to create the ACA – but the President had to have his legacy.
Yesterday on the Today Show Sarah Palin provided the best explanation yet available of the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
“The plan is to allow those things that have been proposed over many years to reform a health-care system in America that certainly does need more help so that there’s more competition, there’s less tort-reform threat, there’s less trajectory of the cost increases. And those plans have been proposed over and over again. And what thwarts those plans? It’s the far left. It’s President Obama and his supporters who will not allow the Republicans to usher in free-market, patient-centered doctor-patient relationship … to reform health care.”
Word salad.
Seems like there shouldn’t any shortage of folks to sign up:
Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/calif-insurance-commissioner-more-than-1m-californians-having-insurance-cancelled-due-to-obamacare/
Report: W.H. knew plans would be canceled under ACA
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/28/affordable-care-act-cancellations/3293001/
Health Policies Canceled in Latest Hurdle for Obamacare
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-29/health-policies-canceled-in-latest-hurdle-for-obamacare.html
More Americans In 3 States Have Had Their Insurance Canceled Under ObamaCare Than Have Filed An Exchange Account In All 50
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/24/more-americans-have-had-their-insurance-canceled-under-obamacare-than-have-filed-an-exchange-account/