Category: ObamaCare

Essentially, those running healthcare.gov mandated planned incompetence. (Forbes) A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, […]

All across the country, American bank accounts are being mugged by Obamacare. Andy Mangione, who lives in Louisville, Ky. with his wife Amy and their two boys, is doing the same thing millions of people are doing –trying to figure out how much his insurance will cost under ObamaCare. Before the exchanges opened, his insurance […]

I’m waiting for the opinion piece “Obamacare killed my family when my employer dropped my hours to part time and dropped our coverage” Obamacare saved my family from financial ruin House Speaker John Boehner and his tea party friends shut down the U.S. government because of people like me. I am the mother of an […]

That’s out of tens of millions of web-hits. They had over 3 years to plan for this. $634 million spent on setting up the federal ACA website. $313 million to set up the website for “Covered California”. Huge sums to set up the ExchangeFails in the other states that are participating. Yet… (UK Dailymail) Just […]

I’m thinking they’ll report the numbers sometime between the 27th and 29th (Jake Tapper) The Obama administration is not planning on releasing enrollment numbers on Obamacare until November, senior administration officials said Monday, as they continued to insist that delays with the healthcare.gov website were entirely the result of high volume. “We will release monthly […]

When Obamacare went live, both CNN and MSNBC tried to log on to the website in an effort to show everyone how easy it is to sign up. Both networks failed. Well, guess what? It STILL doesn’t work. Maybe that’s why large insurers only have “hundreds” signing up so far. About 30 million uninsured people […]

“If you like you insurance plan, you can keep it” continues to ring hollow (NJ.com) : Hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans opened the mail last week to find their health insurance plan would no longer exist in 2014 because it does not cover all the essential benefits required by the Affordable Care Act. The news […]

How many Americans are being smashed by these same sort of crushing financial blows because of Obamacare? Across North Carolina, thousands of people have been shocked in recent weeks to find out their health insurance plans will be canceled at the end of the year — and premiums for comparable coverage could increase sharply. One […]

Will the “Affordable” Care Act end up helping some Americans? Sure. Even the worst written law will help some people. The ACA will surely help illegal aliens. It’ll also help those with pre-existing conditions. Not only can they not be denied coverage, but they supposedly can’t be charged more than healthy people (though the example […]

No website is perfect. Things happen. My host, Dreamhost, has certainly had their share of issues over the years, from minor annoyances to huge outages. Of course, they, like all sorts of giant individual websites, like CNN, Fox News, Youtube, etc, rarely go down, especially for “planned maintenance”. Obamacare? (The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) […]

The media has been doting on Chad Henderson, a student who has signed up for Obamacare. Of course, most of the articles don’t mention that this young student singing the praises of Obamacare is the the President of “Walker County Young Democrats” and volunteers for Obama’s “Organizing For America.” In any case, he didn’t get […]

President of the Democrat Party Barack Obama says that his signature law will have “glitches” for at least several months. Who’s shocked? (Fox News) The sales pitches for and against ObamaCare have all been made. It’s now up to Americans to judge whether the law works as advertised, as the so-called insurance “exchanges” launch Tuesday. […]