U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans to “bypass” a health care website his administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build – acknowledging the government’s foray into the health care marketplace “hasn’t worked as smoothly as it was supposed to work.”
“Nobody’s madder than me about the fact that the website isn’t working as well as it should,” Obama said, “which means it’s going to get fixed.”
Of course Obama wasted little time in blaming “politics” for the uproar surrounding the crippled website – specifically pointing the finger at (wait for it) “Republicans in Congress.”
“They were willing to shut down the government and potentially harm the global economy to try to get it repealed,” Obama said of his socialized medicine law.
Well let’s not get carried away, man … a few Republicans were wiling to kinda sorta but not really shut down the government. The rest of them caved before the so-called “shutdown” even began.
But anyway …
Obama maintained that while his health care website is broken, the socialized medicine it’s selling is a “good deal.”
“The product – the health insurance – is good,” Obama said. “The prices are good. It is a good deal.”
Um … that’s debatable.
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So has the Faux News Network moved from train wreck to fiasco, now. That is a harder word, it might confuse some their viewers.
Better blast out another toolkit via a “grassroots” organization so everyone knows to use the right term and hashtags.
Works for the progressive machine….
Ragging on Fox for sending out the political message of the day…
I think TRAIN WRECK is the only really appropriate way to describe it
When you can’t fight the facts, just insult the messenger. That will probably distract everyone right?
Yea, I learned that from Karl Rove. Apparently Republicans like that a lot. Especially the Teapublicans.
Hurr durr.
It has been an unmitigated success! George W. Bush could not have done better!
Happy?
Faux News, Tom you must be the one that watches MSNBC.
LOL
Nah, I get my news directly from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. If I am going to watch Faux News, it may as well be entertaining. The Faux News Network brings me down without providing any more real information than Stewart and Colbert.
This site supplements by giving me a dose of truthiness, and I read a couple of news papers and magazines to tie down the details.
I wouldn’t be surprised, Stewart/Colbert sounds about right. Newspapers and magazines, at least they don’t slant like “Faux News”.
I get all my info from the internet because they don’t put anything on the internet that’s not true, oops, newspapers and magazines are on the internet.
Stewart and Colbert are both liberals, but they are entertaining.
In my day it was the Coneheads.
“Your website is so fucked we have use the same strategy that we used to salvage the Iraq war?” – Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart discussing President Obama’s announced “tech surge” to repair the ObamaCare Web site.
He’s been brutal on Obama for the debacle that is Healthcare.gov. And rightfully so. I just wish other liberal commentators would call him out on this epic failure.
Aw, come on now. “epic failure” ? really? Your intelligence agencies assuring your public they would find WMD in a country resulting in a war, the death of tens of thousands of people, and the loss of three trillion dollars of the nations wealth. Now that is an “epic” failure. The near collapse of the international banking system almost overnight and without warning, that is an “epic” failure.
I think we need to keep the word “epic” under control. If we apply epic to a few computer glitches, what will we use to describe real epic failures.
A glitch is an anomaly in the website. We are WAY beyond glitches. This is full-on fail. It doesn’t work. You call the “hotline” and get a busy signal. When you get through, IT DIRECTS YOU BACK TO THE WEBSITE.
I wish I took a video of myself attempting to sign up so I could see how much the insurance plans would cost in comparison to my wife’s current private plan. It’s literally impossible to do so. At every step there are issues. It’s a total disaster.
With the Iraq war comparison, you’re comparing bad information with bad implementation. Obamacare was passed based on bad information, much like the Iraqi war. If the Iraq war was conducted as bad as this website has been created, our troop carriers would’ve crashed into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans long before we ever reached the target.
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/392675789788811264/photo/1
So do what I am doing and what a lot of people do with new technology. Wait about a month before trying to use it. It allows them to work out the kinks. Should they have occurred, no. But I think they can be fixed. Then we will know.
The Affordable Care Act was not implemented based on bad information.
In the Iraq War, it would have cost us less money if our Carriers had never made it to Iraq.
So you’re claiming it’s not an epic failure without even actually trying the website? I love it when people post comments on stuff they haven’t even tried.
Actually, train wreck was the quote from Senator Baucus (D), who helped draft the monstrosity. But other than that, totally on point.
That won’t work, “monstrosity” is way to big for the target audience. Stick with fiasco, or better yet mess.
How about “Oopsy Daisy”?
You can say it in high pitched baby talk voice.
Considering I used the word on this site, the likely audience are the usual suspects on these comment threads. So yes, I guess it is too big a word for many posters.
This just in – Consumer Reports says “…Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month…Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they’ve made…” Wishful thinking – and while we’re on the subject, do you really want your healthcare managed by the guys who “managed” this website roll out?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/361750/consumer-reports-stay-away-healthcaregov-alec-torres
Shifty is nuzzling up to two women whose agency received a contract to administer the program in a certain area. Hoping to seduce them into allowing me to get a management position. As of today they have not yet been funded to pay salaries. Shifty is curious about how well trained, honest, and sincere the foot soldiers will be. Shifty is curious about what he believes is an underlying secret agenda being set up under the cover of the ACA.
“Nobody’s madder than me about the fact that the website isn’t working as well as it should,” Obama said, “which means it’s going to get fixed.”
HNIC to the rescue, fixing the problem he created in the first place. It’s a good opportunity to put those community organizing skills to work. I’m sure he’ll find a way to nigger rig the website so it’ll work.
All he needs to accomplish his goals is unlimited resources, like taxpayer dollars.
Snowflake “I’ll fix it!” (potus) — worry not, folks, “everthang gonna be aw’rite”…..
Fo shizzle.
I sure hope these fixes all fall within the $300 million dollars they spent getting the piece of shit built.
“It’s just a little glitch, I’ll be better soon”
At least he has the backbone and the honesty to admit it isn’t working . . . “Heck of a job, Brownie!”
In 5 long years, he has shown neither “backbone” nor “honesty” for people paying attention, obviously unlike you. He blamed the Republicans for it, as usual, because NOTHING, NOTHING is ever HIS fault. This despite the fact HE rammed this travesty down the throats of the American people who did not want it to begin with. “If you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” LIE. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.” That, too, is a LIE. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future.” Yet another LIE. Obamacare will “cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.” This LIE is so laughable it almost makes you want to cry. So many numbskulls bought all that “Affordable” Care Act bullshit, did no fact-checking, no rational thinking and now this thing is crashing and burning as was predicted it would. What a terrible time for our country.
This is why Republicans wanted to kill the Affordable Care Act before it got off the ground.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/10/21/as-obamacare-runs-into-problems-americans-still-want-to-give-it-a-chance/
What that poll really shows is how fundamentally ignorant the vast majority of Americans are about what the ACA is and does. It isn’t surprising that most Americans don’t really know what’s going on as the Press has cheer lead the “good points” and ignored the intrusion, costs and cobbled together nature of the law.
Well I suppose who among the vast majority of Americans is “fundamentally ignorant” is up for debate. I guess we each have our opinions on that.
Typical Teapublican attitude. If you don’t agree with us its because you haven’t heard us or you are stupid. Despite the fact we bombard you with our opinions incessantly, through Faux, Rush, Beck, Drudge, Fits, etc., etc., etc.
Hopefully, the American public is beginning to catching on to that attitude, and will give the Teapublicans the attention they truly deserve.
Shifty is curious that the photo is of a Korean and a Chinese – both women. And why are they smiling?
Here’s a list of possible things they are trying to tell us:
We so horny.
We ate your dog.
We can’t see when we are smiling this wide.
Obama just paid us to fake happiness, usually we hate each other because my mom made me learn calculus at six and play Mozart on the piano at three.
Question:
How does Shifty know it’s a Korean and Chinese women? Does he have intimate knowledge of Asian ethnicities from personal massage experience?
We really shouldn’t make jokes about health related issues. Shifty’s daughter recently
suffered through a terrible time. First off she got tonsillitis, followed by appendicitis and then pneumonia. After that she got rheumatism, and to top it off they gave her hypodermics and inoculations. Shifty thought she never would get through that spelling bee!
This just in:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A nation that waited several decades for health insurance is becoming increasingly infuriated by a Web site that is wasting minutes of its time, reports from across the United States confirm.
The official Web site of Obamacare, HealthCare.gov, has been plagued by glitches, crashes, and sluggishly loading pages, say millions of angry Americans attempting to log on to the site at exactly the same time.
“Look, I know that we had to wait longer for health care than virtually every other industrialized nation on earth,” said Tracy Klugian, a muffler salesman from Akron, Ohio. “But the time I spent on that Web site is thirty-five minutes I’ll never get back.”
Sharing what he called his “Obamacare horror story,” Mr. Klugian said, “Being on that Web site slowed down our wi-fi so much that my kids couldn’t stream videos. For a so-called health-care program, it’s causing a lot of stress that’s the opposite of healthy, if you ask me.”
Harland Dorrinson, a gym manager from Knoxville, Tennessee, had an Obamacare nightmare of his own, having to log on to the site “two completely different times” before getting health insurance for the first time in his life.
“President Obama said he was going to make health care affordable and available to millions of Americans,” he said, bitterly. “He didn’t tell us it would take more than an hour.”
New Obamacare fix:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-improved-obamacare-program-released-on-35-flop,34294/
HAW – HAW! —pretty good…..