Well, what do you expect?
After all,Obamacare is probably the very first business most of them have ever run.
Reuters reports:
The administration is planning a “workaround” for payments, said Daniel Durham, vice president for policy and regulatory affairs at America’s Health Insurance Plans.
Health plans will estimate how much they are owed, and submit that estimate to the government. Once the system is built, the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the plan data to “true up” payments, he said.
“The intent is to make sure plans get paid on time, which is a good thing,” Durham told Reuters.
The fix puts an additional “burden” on insurance companies, already taxed by having to double-check faulty enrollment data from the HealthCare.gov system.
Now, companies need to quickly put together financial management systems to make the payment estimates, so they can be paid beginning in January, he said.
Can an entire administration be impeached for gross negligence?
However, repeal of Obamacare is not an option, according to Obama:
“We’re not repealing it as long as I’m president,” said Obama, who was flanked by Americans who have benefited from aspects of the law. He said, “If I have to fight another three years to make sure that this law works, then that’s what I’ll do.”
But he’s not an ideologue; oh no, not Obama.
And who’s that “we,” kimosabe? When last I checked, it was Congress that passed legislation, including repeals. Of course, Obama might mean he would veto any repeal, but as I wrote in an earlier post today, if enough Democrats turn against Obama and Obamacare (not likely, but possible), his veto might be overriden.
Wonder what he’d be planning then.
Repeal is not an option.
How about we shit in Obama’s mouth? How’s that for your fucking option, Obama?
Martin Bashir said it was appropriate to shit in Sarah Palin’s mouth merely because she equated slavery with PUBLIC DEBT. Is that a bad comparison? Isn’t that the basis of the failure of communism? Doesn’t Chinese communism declare itself “different” and unique on that basis. Why didn’t the White House, which hangs ornaments of Chairmon Mao on its Christmas tree, affirm Sarah? Yeah! No public debt. Indeed, just the opposite. Let’s buy up all the debt of other countries and use that to impose our defintion of slavery. Yeah.
Did Obama lie? Is he causing “economic injustice? Economic slavery? Why isn’t Martin Bashir saying we should SHIT in Obama’s mouth?
Why? Because he is profitting by his craven falsehoods.
Here is a 2006 article by a pretty smart guy which identifies the problem of health care as too much federal regulation. As usual, the Obama/progressive answer is more of the same!
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087830
Excerpt:
This article makes the case that government failure should occupy center-stage in understanding how things came to look the way they do. Rather than market failure, it is our inefficient and perverse regulation of health insurance that should be the focus of our ire, and of regulatory reform.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
“Can an entire administration be impeached for gross negligence?”
No, but it can implode. Obamacare is a stinking dead albatross hanging by chains from their scrawny necks. While others are pessimists, I am optimistic. A slim majority is not as stupid-uniformed as many assume. When it hits you in the wallet, you feel the hit, and you start looking for which shady character has just picked your pocket.
So now the insurance companies will have to calculate everybody’s subsidy? That will require good verifiable income data of all family members and evidence of claimed dependents including social security numbers. That is a huge job and the potential for fraud and identity theft is immense. It sounds like the companies will not check claims and will be making estimates. What a clusterf***.
I think we should let Obamacare bleed.
And toss it like a used band-aid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhuT6odwOZM
They understood:
You knifed me in my dirty filthy basement
With that jaded faded junky nurse
Oh, what pleasant company
and of course, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4hkJIX8oU
“What a clusterf***.”
Imagine 300 million monkeys on viagra trying to clusterf*** one greased football. That is Obamacare. Be of good cheer. Failure is no success at all.
Eric doing Bob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsF3aX0dzV4
AC/DC ain’t DC.
Believe that. Dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRdfhkonJI
Fish me.
Wish me.
Kish me.
The hook is in your hand.
That, Parker, is non-moot. If you know what I mean.
B. E. A. U. TIFUL.
Now, Eric would have played the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1tk4jsL4a4&list=TLk_P7Y2-PxttQYmkHoaMqTG4-UPH2aLMU
I read this blog almost every day for a reason: I tend to agree with what Neo writes, and know I couldn’t have done better. Still, this is just silly. The 2012 election was about three things: controlling the federal deficit, Obamacare, and determining whether Iran will be a regional nuclear empire. Obama is not going to give up his winnings. No one cares that I think his winnings skate the thin edge of treason.
It’s over for the United States. I pray that it’s not over for Israel. For the near future, Israel’s survival depends on accepting an alliance with Saudi Arabia. They have no other source of armaments funding, so their only other option is suicide.
Even if the Obamacare IT problems are solved, the fiscal problems will drive the country into depression, which will create even more parasitic Democratic voters. We’re looking at a generation of soft Marxist government. I’d recommend finding ourselves a life outside politics. This isn’t defeatism, it’s realism.
Maybe Neo can convert this blog into stories about ballet and jello.
cornflour:
You forgot music. Ballet, jello, and music.
And spambots.
You may be correct in your predictions. I’m not exactly what would be called optimistic myself. Nor do I think Obama will voluntarily give up anything.
But I think it is possible that enough Democrats will turn on him that it will make a difference.
For example, please read this paper by Jonathan Turley, an Obama supporter, to the effect that Obama has exceeded his constitutional authority in a dangerous way. Turley testified on Tuesday in the House hearings on the subject.
I sense a possible shift in the number of Democrats feeling this way. Whether it will be enough, I do not know (again, I’m not optimistic). But it is real.
push.me.one.more.time, 9:41 pm — “How about we #### in Obama’s mouth? How’s that for your ####ing option, Obama? Martin Bashir said it was appropriate to #### in Sarah Palin’s mouth merely because she equated slavery with PUBLIC DEBT.”
Hey push, I share your anger and disgust, believe me. And what Bashir infamously said was utterly, *utterly* classless. But we need not follow suit. M J R says, expressing the same sentiments in PG-rated language takes greater effort, but when done imaginatively, can be that much more pungent, in part because it does not rely on the “bad” words. I personally look to Mark Steyn (and a few others) for inspiration in this regard.
Here’s an example:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364093/thus-spake-obama-mark-steyn
I love his line, “Gee, thanks for sharing, genius,” referring to our disaster-in-chief, early in the fifth paragraph down. Priceless — and easily PG-rated. The context:
“The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: ‘What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.’ Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy.”
Anyway, push, please take this response as a friendly one. As I wrote, I share your anger and disgust. But as I also wrote, we need not follow suit and forfeit our dignity by becoming Bashirian.
I was struck by the rather subdued crowd response to Obama’s proclamation about refusing repeal. Promising to confront the evil Republicans would typically be red meat to the fellow travelers and solicit an almost orgasmic response.
Instead we witnessed limited applause and some perhaps orchestrated cheering from offstage.
“For example, please read this paper by Jonathan Turley, an Obama supporter, to the effect that Obama has exceeded his constitutional authority in a dangerous way. Turley testified on Tuesday in the House hearings on the subject.”
And on the Kelley File last night, she featured not only Turley, but others who testified at the hearing. Amazing how the words “tyranny”, and “revolution” came up along with quotes from the Federalist Papers. Of course there’s nothing on this that I could see in the MSM this morning or even on the conservative sites…. sigh.
BTW, Megyn Kelley is kicking BOR’s butt. I now skip over the 8pm slot and tune into Fox at 9 for her show. She has principles and passion, he is just out to sell his books.
NeoNeocon: “Can an entire administration be impeached for gross negligence? ”
Well sure it could. It would be tough work, probably work Americans don’t want to do, so we’d have to have illegal aliens do it.
But the House and Senate (post 2014 mid terms) could set up an assembly line and run through a thousand people, impeaching and removing every single one of them.
Of course we’d have to provide them with a safety net, wouldn’t want them to suffer like the rest of us who get fired from jobs. Maybe have special “navigators” help them get Obamacare.
“We’re not repealing it as long as I’m president,” said Obama
Hopefully this isn’t one of those rare promises he keeps.
What is happening here is reminiscent of Chile, Argentina, or Zimbabwe. Obama is Allende, or Peron, or Mugabe. The details are different but the pattern is similar. There is a thirst among a large percentage of humans for “fairness.” Egalitarianism sounds so correct and reasonable to them. But, of course, it can’t be achieved through simple, “fair” processes. It requires force to overcome the human instinct for achievement or as the egalitarians call it, “greed.” No amount of historical evidence of the failures of egalitarianism can change their minds. Only complete, abject failure will do it. But recovery requires a man (such as Pinochet in Chile) who can point the way out of the failure and can sway enough minds to follow the path of free markets, private property, and rule of law. If such a man doesn’t appear, you continue on the path of Argentina or Zimbabwe.
That is why most of us are dejected. We know what is happening but feel powerless to change things. We have eleven months to work to help elect people who believe in our principles. Let us all dedicate ourselves to doing whatever we can, no matter how small, to make that happen.
“Not one step back!” said der Fuhrer.
How’d that work out?
Healthcare.gov is the Stalingrad of disinformation technologies.
It’s already been enveloped by reality.
Can the Front be re-scaffolded?
“Health plans will estimate how much they are owed, and submit that estimate to the government.”
Never trust estimates – never.
Man this whole thing is so f&cked!
Neo,
You said “After all,Obamacare is probably the very first business most of them have ever run.”
Peggy Noonan explores this idea in her latest blog post:
“From what I have seen the administration is full of young people who’ve seen the movie but not read the book. They act bright, they know the reference, they’re credentialed. But they’ve only seen the movie about, say, the Cuban missile crisis, and then they get into a foreign-policy question and they’re seeing movies in their heads. They haven’t read the histories, the texts, which carry more information, more texture, data and subtlety, and different points of view.”
It’s a sobering assessment of the President’s leadership ability. Worth the read:
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2013/12/03/low-information-leadership/
}}} the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the plan data to “true up” payments, he said.
Ahhhh, yeah, THAT’s not a recipe for a giant, government sized cluster f**k.
I’m sure there will be hundreds of little IOUs being passed around in “This Is How To Not Run Government” class. Unfortunately, a class not usually offered in Poly Sci programs around the nation.