Thursday, April 18, 2013

Ded We Mention It's oBOZOcare?

When one undertakes to run the Gummint, one should have big-boy pants.

Obama?  Not even close.

...Klein’s [Time Magarag's Lefty essayist] post focuses primarily on the implosion of Obamacare’s exchanges. Pointing out that the President’s apparatchiks squandered three full years during which they should have been hard at work preparing for the advent of these insurance “marketplaces,” Klein laments their failure to do so with the following piece of Solomonic wisdom: “This is a really bad sign.” Indeed it is. And Klein isn’t the only advocate of Obamacare to finally notice that this hopelessly Byzantine health care “reform” law is an implementation nightmare....

...Not only has the go-live date for the insurance exchanges been pushed back a year, a wide variety of the law’s other key provisions have either been delayed or simply abandoned. The most conspicuous of the latter category was the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. This program was so badly designed that Kathleen Sebelius admitted HHS couldn’t pay for it and one of its own administrators speculated that it might collapse. It was repealed in January....

...Senator Cantwell was also among the thirty-three Democrats who voted with all of the Senate Republicans last month to repeal Obamacare’s job-killing 2.3 percent excise tax on manufacturers and importers of medical devices....

...Even the much-touted Obamacare provision that we were told would eliminate the “pre-existing condition” scourge is proving to be a bust. According the Heritage Foundation, the Obama Administration estimated that 375,000 people would enroll in the pre-existing conditions insurance plan (PCIP). “But as of January 2013, over two-and-a-half years since the plan began, only 107,139 were enrolled—less than 29 percent of original projections.” And yet the program is running out of money...

...“In a 2012 report, the Administration conceded that claims’ costs had been 2.5 times greater than they had anticipated.” This is of a piece with the “Affordable Care Act” in general. When Obamacare was first shoved down our throats, we were told that it would cost $898 billion. Now the projected cost is $1.6 trillion....

Obama makes a great Pouter-in-Chief, stamping his widdle feets and ranting about "Republican" "obstructors."  IOW, he's just another community organizer of mediocre talent.

He ain't no President.

2 comments:

  1. What's the name of the black family on The Jetsons?

    Oh, there wasn't one?

    Guess the future is looking bright.

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  2. The quotes from the Obama administrators make it official, or at least as official as anything nowadays: We are living in the "lawless" society Solzhenitsyn diagnosed about 40 years ago. Icing on the cake: The complete inability of central governments to make economic decisions described by Von Mises and Hayek around 90 and 75 years ago, respectively. I won't say any more, Dad-- I don't want to steal your thunder, and I am too old and tired to pull any more books off the shelf.

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