DC Tom Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping! I think that almost every time I read news about the ACA now. The times I don't, I tend to be thinking "Barack, you ignorant slut."
B-Man Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 OmertàCare: The first rule: You do not talk about perverse incentives. by James Tarento Legal or regulatory changes that affect the cost of labor would fall into the category of “changes in the economic marketplace in which the employer operates.” So it would be more precise to say that employers may cut back employment for any bona fide business reason except to take advantage of the ObamaCare mandate delay. The administration thus acknowledges that its policy creates a perverse incentive and orders employers not to act upon it. But that can’t be enforced. A business will take into account all relevant factors, including the additional costs imposed by ObamaCare, in making decisions about hiring and firing, including whether to terminate employees for poor performance, sell a division, etc. In practice, the new rule is a ban–under threat of criminal liability–on acknowledging the perverse incentive. Call it OmertàCare, a government-imposed conspiracy of silence. .
Doc Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 How is Obamacaid going to reduce costs? The answer is simple: volume.
IDBillzFan Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 How is Obamacaid going to reduce costs? The answer is simple: volume. Quite possibly one of my all-time favorite SNL bits. "I just returned from a business trip to London and all the cash I had was a five-pound note. Citywide wasn't able to convert it to dollars, but they did give me four guineas, two crowns, four shillings and tenpence."
B-Man Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Obama had talks with HHS Secretary Sebelius 18 TIMES before disastrous Obamacare roll-out despite claims he was unaware of problems Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in direct contact with President Barack Obama at least 18 times between October 2012 and October 2013, including seven occasions where her draft calendar showed Obamacare as the topic of conversation. The news appears to contradict her insistence that Obama was in the dark about problems plaguing the ill-fated healthcare.gov website in the months leading up to its October 1, 2013 launch. The Hillnewspaper reported Thursday that documents released through a Freedom of Information Act request show meetings, events and phone calls where the two were together. They also show at least three breakfast or lunch meetings with close Obama adviser Pete Rouse, along with scheduled calls or meetings with presidential confidante Valerie Jarrett and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough. Obama denied getting a heads-up about the online disaster that would soon come. 'On the website,' he said in a Nov. 14 press conference, 'I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying, boy, this is going to be great.' Five days later on Nov. 19, he told a Wall Street Journal reporter during the paper's CEO Summit that 'we probably underestimated the complexities of building out a website that needed to work the way it should.' Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2tIrXSshX
IDBillzFan Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 1 million signed up in January!! And 37 paid their premium!!!
Tiberius Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 And 37 paid their premium!!! What time do they put you back in your cage? I'll come back after that...
IDBillzFan Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 What time do they put you back in your cage? I'll come back after that... Wait. What's that sound? NYT: One Fifth of Obamacare Enrolees DIDN'T Pay Their Premium. Why, that crazy rightwing rabblerouser called the NYT!! WASHINGTON — One in five people who signed up for health insurance under the new health care law failed to pay their premiums on time and therefore did not receive coverage in January, insurance companies and industry experts say. Paying the first month’s premium is the final step in completing an enrollment. Under federal rules, people must pay the initial premium to have coverage take effect. In view of the chaotic debut of the federal marketplace and many state exchanges, the White House urged insurers to give people more time, and many agreed to do so. But, insurers said, some people missed even the extended deadlines. But good news! Obamacare means you get to work and earn less...and that's "an exciting prospect!! Obamacare: Catering to America's Freebaggers one executive order at a time!
Tiberius Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Wait. What's that sound? NYT: One Fifth of Obamacare Enrolees DIDN'T Pay Their Premium. Why, that crazy rightwing rabblerouser called the NYT!! But good news! Obamacare means you get to work and earn less...and that's "an exciting prospect!![/size][/font][/color] Obamacare: Catering to America's Freebaggers one executive order at a time! 800, 000 sign up in January!
IDBillzFan Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 800, 000 sign up in January! How many were previously uninsured? C'mon...I'm sure those numbers are right there. Bring 'em out!
meazza Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 How many were previously uninsured? C'mon...I'm sure those numbers are right there. Bring 'em out! I was about to say that and my internet stopped working
3rdnlng Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 How many people lost their insurance in the last few months due to Obamacare? Now some might have gotten it back due to unconstitutional lawmaking by the executive branch but then again we, or they, don't know. This law is so bad and will be so disliked that Obama is failing to live up to his constitutional oath in order to hide its effects until after the mid-term elections. He is specifically committing several impeachable offenses for political reasons.
B-Man Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Four Questions for Obamacare According to George Will, there are four major questions facing Obamacare now. The first: How many people have paid? Though the administration is touting 3.3 million signups, many of those could be people who have placed a plan in their cart but not yet checked out. “Second,” Will said, “only 27 percent are in the 18 to 34 group, which means adverse selection by age is still under way and they wanted about 40 percent to make this fly.” Third, 55 percent of signups are women and “women have higher recourse to the health-care system, so that’s another form of adverse selection,” Will said. Lastly, most signups were in states that did not establish a state exchange. This is problematic, Will explained, because “there are four lawsuits in various federal courts saying clearly that the plain text of the law says, ’subsidies shall be available only through exchanges established by a state.’”
meazza Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 Man these right wing rags will never stop with their propaganda. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-the-poetry-of-bad-news-around-obamacare/2014/02/14/15aa9b3c-95c5-11e3-8461-8a24c7bf0653_story.html
B-Man Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 In an embarrassing bit of timing, the Obamacare website was down on Saturday due to a "Social Security system outage" on the same day as its National Youth Enrollment Day. According to the HealthCare.gov website, Social Security system maintenance means "you won't be able to submit an application at HealthCare.gov and find out what you are eligible for" from Feb. 15 at 3:00 PM until Feb. 18 at 5:00 AM EST. Obamacare's National Youth Enrollment Day is Feb. 15. Pro-Obamacare youth recruitment groups were crestfallen. "We just found that out," Aaron Smith, the Young Invincibles' co-founder told Buzzfeed. "Obviously it's unfortunate." Obamacare youth activist groups had billed National Youth Enrollment Day as "a huge day of action to educate young adults on the importance of having health insurance" and had flooded social media with graphics featuring celebrities Adam Levine, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Amy Poehler, and others promoting the big day.
IDBillzFan Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 Man these right wing rags will never stop with their propaganda. http://www.washingto...0653_story.html That's about as clear and basic as this whole thing gets. Virtually all the points she makes are plain truths to anyone paying attention. And yet you read the mindless progs in the comments tearing her apart because "she just doesn't understand basic economics." Gotta hand it to Barry. His militia is dedicated to a fault.
3rdnlng Posted February 16, 2014 Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) Obamacare is just another word for FUBAR: http://www.foxnews.c...tcmp=latestnews "People with serious pre-existing diseases, precisely those the president aimed to help with ObamaCare, could find themselves paying for expensive drug treatments with no help from the health care exchanges. Those with expensive diseases such as lupus or multiple sclerosis face something called a "closed drug formulary." Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute explains,"if the medicine that you need isn't on that list, it's not covered at all. You have to pay completely out of pocket to get that medicine, and the money you spend doesn't count against your deductible, and it doesn't count against your out of pocket limits, so you're basically on your own." The plan had claimed it would rescue those with serious pre-existing conditions. "So it could be that a MS patient could be expected to pay $62,000 just for one medication," says Dr. Daniel Kantor, who treats MS patients and others with neurological conditions near Jacksonville, Florida. "That’s a possiblity under the new ObamaCare going on right now." Edited February 16, 2014 by 3rdnlng
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