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Obamacare failures begin: D.C. health exchange prices are broken until mid-November

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News

Less than a week before the “official” roll-out of Obamacare and the system is in a shambles.

Americans remain fearful and confused about the new law. Benefits and pricing still hasn’t been worked out. And worse, some of the state and territorial exchanges called for under the law are already on life support.

Can you say, “Epic fail?”

Per the Washington Post:
Just days away from launch, the District of Columbia’s health marketplace is announcing a pretty significant delay.

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Can you say, “Epic fail?”

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Obamacare failures begin: D.C. health exchange prices are broken until mid-November

Friday, September 27, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Obamacare failures, health exchanges, broken prices

(NaturalNews) Less than a week before the "official" roll-out of Obamacare and the system is in a shambles.

Americans remain fearful and confused about the new law. Benefits and pricing still hasn't been worked out. And worse, some of the state and territorial exchanges called for under the law are already on life support.

Can you say, "Epic fail?"

Per the Washington Post:

Just days away from launch, the District of Columbia's health marketplace is announcing a pretty significant delay.

While the D.C. Health Link will launch a Web site on October 1, shoppers will not have access to the their premium prices until mid-November. The delay comes after the District marketplace discovered "a high error rate" in calculating the tax credits that low- and middle-income people will use to purchase insurance on the marketplace.

The nation's capital, perhaps the most liberal "progressive" place in the entire country, has been increasingly fearful of Obamacare's disastrous effects in the months and weeks leading up to the official launch.

Huge amounts of unionized federal workers have rejected the law that Obama has exempted lawmakers from [http://www.naturalnews.com]. The IRS's own union - members of the agency charged with enforcing Obamacare's myriad of rules, regulations, mandates and penalties - doesn't want the law [http://www.naturalnews.com].

Now, as the start date for the law approaches, many of the government-run health insurance exchanges called for under the "Affordable" Care Act are either not ready for prime time or are too broken to function.

And it is as appropriate as it is ironic that the exchange in the nation's capital is one of the first to break.

As reported by the Post, the insurance exchanges - according to plan - were supposed to be capable of providing estimates for tax credits after a "shopper" puts in some basic info about where he or she lives and how much he or she earns (already, as you can see, Obamacare demands info you shouldn't have to provide the government just to purchase health insurance!).

But, in D.C. at least, that's not going to happen at least until next month. And perhaps longer.

Instead, the paper reported, determinations of eligibility will be made "offline" by early November.

More from the Post:

The delay will be less significant for people who likely qualify for Medicaid in the District, which covers everyone below 200 percent of the poverty line (about $22,000 for an individual). In cases where someone is found likely eligible for that program, D.C. Health Link spokesman Richard Sorian said they should get a determination with 24 hours.

The plan is to ensure that Medicaid enrollees - who, of course, qualify automatically and immediately for still more taxpayer-provided benefits under Obamacare - are processed the fastest.

Working stiffs - people who might qualify for tax credits - will have to wait until January, again at the earliest.

Still think the government can get this right?

D.C. Healthlink, the name of Washington's insurance exchange, put out this announcement:

DC Health Link is not currently deploying the function that makes new Medicaid eligibility determinations and calculates tax credits for purchase of private insurance due to a high error rate discovered through extensive systems testing.

People seeking Medicaid coverage or tax credits will be able to use DC Health Link to create an account and submit an on-line application.

The Post notes, "This certainly is not good news for Obamacare, especially in the wake of the other reports on similar glitches at the federal level. The Obama administration has repeatedly promised that, starting on October 1, all Americans will be able to purchase insurance coverage on the new marketplaces."

Actually, it's not good news for American insurance consumers. We've been reporting for years that this law is, and will continue to be, an unmitigated, bureaucratic nightmare disaster. That it's launch is already so screwed up - after a two-year lead time - should tell you all you need to know about how the rest of this will turn out.

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Why is Obamacare so unaffordable? Because it was conceived as a political weapon of mass economic destruction

ObamaCare: ‘May Your Chains Rest Lightly Upon You’ – Samuel Adams

Posted by Katie Baker on September 25, 2013 at 2:30pm

ObamaCare: ‘May Your Chains Rest Lightly Upon You’ – Samuel Adams

Written By: Dr. Jake Baker www.right180.com September 24, 2013



The rest of that quote from our Founding Father, Samuel Adams, reads:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.

May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

The pundits are all telling us that Ted Cruz’s quasi-filibusterer has had no impact, it doesn’t mean anything and that it’s mere grandstanding. Hogwash! Even the most cynical among us must admit that he has born the heat of the battle with little, if any, upside. Grandstanding indeed. His colleagues and the President have been abusive and he is taking blow after blow from the media and yet he is there fighting for a principle. It makes me want to stand up and cheer.

Ted Cruz is a statesman – an honest man in Washington D.C. He cares less for politics, less for his reputation, and less for his position in the “good ole boys club” than he does for his country.

He is a patriot. At this moment in the midst of the storm, he still clings tightly to the torch of freedom, one of the last remaining lights in the city on the hill. He is a hero. I cannot say I expect, but still I hope against hope, that this will act as a spark to reignite the fires of freedom in America.

I know it will little effect DC’s royalty, those jaded, elitist brutes who rule our lives with countless and unbearable laws like ObamaCare, which no doubt will be held over our collective heads as the carrot on the end of a stick. While none are willing to speak of it, what will happen − and happen quickly as soon as ObamaCare is the last medical and insurance system standing − the rich and powerful will diabolically use medical care to control every aspect of our behavior from travel to eating; from our sleeping to our leisure time activities, and from jobs to access to any and all government services … and … heaven help those who still smoke.

They will certainly use health care to further enact more gun control legislation and confiscation … and all of this, of course, for our own good and the health of the nation. By the way, do you remember watching the old WWII movies when the Nazis asked people for their papers? Does anyone know what papers they were asking for? They were being asked to be shown a person’s medical papers, which were an important part of HitlerCare.
To be clear, ObamaCare will destroy our health care system and collapse our economy. They will precariously dangle medical care over our head like the Sword of Damocles, withholding it from those who step out of line or dare challenge the system. And while some are calling Senator Cruz’s effort hubris, I see them in every way noble. And while his ignoble colleagues derisively label him Don Quixote tilting at windmills … I would remind them that there are times when windmills need to be tilted; there are battles that must be fought for the greater good … and, as we say in Texas … “Remember the Alamo!

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Oh My: White House Announces Another Major Obamacare Delay

Guy Benson | Sep 26, 2013



I'm shocked. Not by the latest in a long list of postponements -- Americans should hunker down for a deluge of fresh problems, delays and excuses next week -- but by the White House's jaw-droppingly bad timing and messaging. (Although, come to think of it, should I be?)

President Obama traveled to Maryland this morning for a rip-roarin', chest-thumpin', GOP-mockin' speech to promote his healthcare law. America's post-partisan healer didn't hold back:

Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller Obama mocking GOP: "Affordable health care is worse than a law that allowed slaveowners get their runaway slaves back"
11:32 AM - 26 Sep 2013

Then, within minutes of Obama concluding his smug screed, his administration dropped this news. Virtuosic:

The Obama administration is delaying another piece of Obamacare – this time postponing online enrollment in some of the small-business exchanges scheduled to open Oct. 1, sources tell POLITICO. Small businesses looking to enroll in coverage on so-called SHOP exchanges run by the federal government will be able to submit a paper application on Oct. 1 – they just won’t be able to enroll online. The delay is expected to further stoke Republican-led concerns that the law is not ready and should be stopped before 2014. The SHOP applications represent the latest glitch in the federal exchange infrastructure. Federal health officials recently said they won’t be able to transfer Medicaid applications to states right away.

Oops. You may recall that these small business exchanges were subjected to major alterations and delays this past spring, so what's one more last-minute change among friends? They've had three-and-a-half years to get this right. What a humiliation. A new CBS News/New York Times poll reaffirms the law's deep unpopularity (just 39 percent of Americans approve of it), and underscores the president's waning clout (his job approval has slid to 43 percent). Hence, the law's cheerleaders are in full damage control mode:

Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn Don't assume all the Obamacare websites will work smoothly on Oct 1--and don't have a cow if they don't http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114788/obamacare-online-insurance-marketplaces-expect-glitches …
7:55 AM - 20 Sep 2013 from Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Mary Katharine Ham: "It’s your family’s health care, your personal information, your time and energy, and huge chunks of your annual income on the line. But hey, don’t have a cow about it." Yeah. Relax, you filthy ingrates.

Republicans in Congress have long discussed including a one-year delay of Obamacare's central individual mandate tax to a government funding bill, or as part of a debt ceiling deal. The president says he won't negotiate at all on the latter point, but that stubborn stance won't be operative for much longer. The public is lining up against him on the debt ceiling, and Democrats' blue wall on Obamacare just sprung its first leak:

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care law. “There’s no way I could not vote for it,” Manchin said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast today. “It’s very reasonable and sensible.” The individual mandate is the linchpin of the law that requires most Americans to purchase health care through government-run insurance exchanges.

There is wide public support for such a delay, which now has bipartisan backing in both chambers of Congress. The White House's position as of a few days ago is that Obama will not accept any more Obamacare delays. That's rich, considering the headline of this very post.

Parting thought: Should conservatives support a one-year delay of the mandate tax (which would effectively stop the law in its tracks for at least another year), or let it burn?

UPDATE - Between the president invoking slavery, Sebelius' segregation slander, and now this preposterous new "statistic" from Harry Reid, might Democrats be panicking?

Senator Harry Reid ✔ @SenatorReid Next year, 129 million with pre-existing conditions can #getcovered. Tell Republicans to stop shutdown threats over health reform.
5:34 PM - 25 Sep 2013

We've gone from 30 million to 46 million to 129 million? Maybe Reid's been taking math lessons from Nancy Pelosi. Reminder: Obamacare leaves 30 million Americans uninsured.


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