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Title: Day 26 - The Obamacare Death March
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Published: Oct 26, 2013
Author: nolu chan
Post Date: 2013-10-26 18:42:39 by nolu chan
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Day 26 - The Obamacare Death March October 26, 2013 The undead corpse of the Obamacare website continues to drag itself along its path to nowhere. November 30th is the new October 1st. This week, the contractors testified they would have liked several months for the testing phase. Now, the administration professes the 5 million lines of code will be debugged, redesigned, rewritten, tested and released in good working order in 35 days. And on November 30th, not only will the cows come home, the unicorns will come home and the pigs will fly. The Washington state exchange does not work to process enrollments because it and the Federal "systems were using different parameters to establish estimated household income," resulting in inaccurate prices. Customers are being sent "Obummer letters." Sen. Ron Johnson is preparing to introduce the “If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act.” Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm) seems confused about what Obama meant when he said, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period." This, as 119,000 Pennsylvanians, 160,000 Californians, 300,000 Floridians, 800,000 in New Jersey were being dropped by their health care plans. And most claimed applications for health care were for expanded Medicaid, not for the purchase of private insurance. And, of course, Obamacare plans to spend money that the sequestration law, the law of the land, takes away. And the model on the website is in a panic, while Kathleen Sebelius, with no urgent business to do in Washington, tours the country on a Obamacare campaign. And lots of people believed Obama when he told them they could enroll by telephone, only to find out that is not possible. They can call in and have a paper application mailed to them, fill it out, and mail it in. - - - - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkMZ7DqEGkQ Published on Oct 25, 2013 As the HealthCare.gov website continues to have problems, more people are signing up for Medicaid over private insurance. "CBS This Morning" correspondent Jan Crawford reports on the importance of getting healthy adults to buy private insurance for the system to work. By Daniel Person Fri., Oct 25 2013 at 03:53PM Well that was good while it lasted. The Washington state health exchange site was the toast of the communistic-takeover-of-healthcare town for a while. But now the cancer that is the federal government’s botched roll out of the Affordable Care Act has spread to the Evergreen state. Washington’s Heath Benefits Exchange said today that a miscommunication between it and the federal government caused the online system to quote health care premiums that were lower than what people were actually entitled to. The exchange says 8,000 people were affected. We have a call in to see how far off the calculations were. The customers affected will be receiving letters informing them that they were quoted wrong. We humbly suggest that right-wing radio in town call these Obummer Letters. Here’s how Exchange CEO Richard Onizuka explained the screw-up: Working with the federal government, our IT team traced the issue to inconsistent file formats being shared between Washington Healthplanfinder and the Federal Data Services Hub. The investigation revealed that the two systems were using different parameters to establish estimated household income. As a result, some Washington Healthplanfinder applicants did not receive the correct tax credit information related to their premiums. The site has seen 35,000 enrollments since it went live Oct. 1. Johnson to Introduce Act to Allow Americans to Keep Their Health Care Washington, D.C. - Senator Ron Johnson will file legislation next week titled the “If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act.” Senator Johnson said today: “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.” "Americans want the freedom to choose their own plans and want to be in control of their own health care. They don’t want Obamacare destroying what they have and what they like. They don’t want their personal choices regarding their health plans and their families’ health plans canceled by Obamacare. "The ‘If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act’ will amend the law to make Obamacare live up to the promises of the politicians who sold the plan to the American public. I will file the bill in the coming week and hope to garner support from fellow Senators of both parties who truly want to make sure President Obama honors his promise that every American has the freedom to keep his or her own health care plan." http://video.foxnews.com/v/2770078156001/exclusive-obamacare-architect-on-what-went-wrong/ Exclusive: ObamaCare 'architect' on what went wrong Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel talks challenges facing the law But... but... but Obama said, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period." Obama did not say you may lose your health care plan, and many will certainly lose their health care plan, but you will stay within some Obamacare framework. http://www.nationalreview.com/node/362255/print Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers Not even the coolest president ever can conjure up a national medical regime for 300 million people. By Mark Steyn If you’re looking for an epitaph for the republic (and these days who isn’t?) try this — from August 2010 and TechCrunch’s delirious preview of Healthcare.gov: Wow. Think of the magic that Madison, Hamilton, and the rest of those schlubs could have produced if they’d only had pizza and Mountain Dew and been willing to pull a few all-nighters at Philadelphia in 1787. Somewhere between the idealism and the curling slice of last night’s pepperoni, Macon Phillips, the administration’s director of new media, happened to come across a tweet by Edward Mullen of Jersey City in which he twitpiced his design for what a health-insurance exchange could look like. So Phillips printed it out to show his fellow administration officials: “Look, this is the sort of creativity that is out there,” he said. “One thing led to another and he left Jersey City to come to D.C. and helped push us through an information architectural process.” Don’t you just love it! This is way cooler than the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: The only “architectural process” they had was crumbling viaducts. I think we can all agree that Barack Obama is hipper than all other government leaders anywhere, ever, combined. Unfortunately, the dogs bark and the pizza-delivery bike moves on, and, in the cold grey morning after of the grease-stained cardboard box with the rubberized cheese stuck to it, Obamacare wound up somewhat less hipper and, in fact, not even HIPAA — the unpersuasively groovy acronym for federally mandated medical privacy in America. Appearing before Congress on Thursday, the magicians of Obamacare eventually conceded that, on their supposedly HIPAA-compliant database, deep in the “information architectural process” is a teensy-weensy little bit of “source code” that reads, “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication of any data transmitted or stored on this information system.” [...] The standard rap on Obamacare is that it’s turned America’s health system into the DMV. If only. I had cause to go to the DMV in Twin Mountain, N.H., the other day. In and out in ten minutes. Modest accommodations, a little down-at-heel, nothing cool about it at all. But it worked just fine. Friendly chap, no complaints. Government can do that at the town level, county level, even (more sparingly) at the state level. But a national medical regime for 300 million people? Not in a First World country. And, when you’re mad enough to try it, the failure is not the insignificant enrollment numbers, but the vaporization of the existing health plans of 119,000 Pennsylvanians, 160,000 Californians, 300,000 Floridians, 800,000 in that tech tweeter’s New Jersey . . . That’s the magic that happens when you disdain the limits of prosaic, humdrum, just-about-functioning government. Perhaps things will get so bad the coolest president ever will no longer seem quite so hip. But, alas, you’ll have to wait three years for a hip replacement. That’s government health care for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ek-SVfDbRI What This Is (in 1 Minute or Less): Obamacare Meets Sequestration Uploaded on Oct 24, 2013 Sequestration—the automatic government spending cuts President Obama signed into law a couple years ago—is hitting Obamacare. http://www.theonion.com/articles/people-in-healthcaregov-stock-photos-now-visibly-p,34307/ H/t PnbC. News in Photos • government • healthcare • News • ISSUE 49•43 • Oct 22, 2013 
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Ooops: State Health Benefits Site Gave 8,000 People Bum Premium Quotes
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“We were working in a very very nimble hyper-consumer-focused way,” explained Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “all fused in this kind of maelstrom of pizza, Mountain Dew, and all-nighters . . . and, you know, idealism. That kind of led to the magic that was produced.”
People In Healthcare.gov Stock Photos Now Visibly Panicking
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