…saith the Democrats. Much better than “fake but accurate,” don’t you think? If there were a prize for creativity in making excuses for boldfaced lying, I believe the current crop of explanations for Obama’s oft-repeated “If you like your [fill … Continue reading →
…from the website: She is no longer, as of this weekend, the face of the health law’s Web site. In her place are four bright logos, each representing a different way to apply for insurance coverage: Online, over the phone, … Continue reading →
Let me say first that anyone who believed Obama was telling the truth when he promised “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” was naive. And that’s an understatement. Not just naive; gullible. … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: I’m adding this link as an update rather than an addendum, in order to spotlight it.] Obama lied, millions lost their health care. A defense is shaping up, though, from Democrats like New Jersey’s Joe Vitale: Critics, however, say … Continue reading →
Jonathan Bernstein at Salon is spinning so hard I fear for his health. After some obligatory throat-clearing about how the Obamacare rollout really wasn’t handled all the well, and how it must be fixed, he gets down to the heart … Continue reading →
Here’s a post at Ace’s, written by someone named Warden, describing his experience with employment-based health insurance premiums this year. Here’s what happened to him: My own horror show arrived in the mail today. I’ll spare you the gory details. … Continue reading →
Here’s a comment I found at the WaPo that I thought worth highlighting [typos corrected]: One of the strangest things about the President is his inability to back down even when he’s dead wrong. No one is getting fired and … Continue reading →
…that is, if you’re willing to pay out of pocket to see him/her out of network, or buy a more inclusive plan and pay higher premiums. I guess we just never heard the whole quote. Many Medicare Advantage patients in … Continue reading →
…but failure is an orphan. The finger-pointing begins in the Obamacare website disaster (see also this and this). And of course, Stalin hadn’t a clue I imagine that, when the smoke clears, Bush and Cheney will be found to be … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Lots of updates below.] Oops, never mind, says Emily Litella. By the way—why didn’t the government site just borrow this calculator, the one I’ve been using in my post-rollout reseach? It seems to work just fine, and gets the … Continue reading →
…Stalin knew. They must calculate that it’s better for Obama to be considered unaware to the point of negligence than to say he was aware of the debacle and let it go ahead anyway. I suppose they think that their … Continue reading →
…skewers the website launch:
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