Today’s Entertainment, Courtesy of the PPACA
Here ya go – today’s P!ss-Poor Asininely Comical Abomination Patient Protection and “Affordable” Care Act comedy news, courtesy of the Drudge Report:
CO Man Applies for Health Insurance; His Dog Gets Coverage
Number Insured Through Oregon’s Exchange So Far? Zero
Exchange Is So Flaky, Major Insurer Stops Advertising
Some DC Plans Cover Abortion, Don’t Cover Hearing Aids
Used the Exchange? Maybe You Should Go Get LifeLock or a Similar Service
PPACA Web Site Crashes – Again – This Time While Secretary Sebelius Is Using It At A Public Function
But There’s No Political Cost So Far, Right? Well, Not Exactly . . .
. . . As Three Current Senators Might Be About to Find Out
Honestly, you couldn’t make this sh!t up. No one would believe you.
“Most transparent administration”, eh? Well, transparency sometimes has disadvantages.
Transparency exposes monumental incompetence clearly for all to see.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Health Care debate, Reality Check
OLTW! $300 million spent by CoverOregon with zero enrollments on its website and no set date for the website to be up and running. So in some respects, we’se right there with the fed website.
But, in our defense, we got 56,000 to sign up for Medicaid using paper applications. We so good. (Sarcasm off)
Gee, given the first link I was thinking that the first comment would be something along the lines of “healthcare really is going to the dogs these days . . . . ” (smile)
Hondo,don’t think I wasn’t tempted to post something along those lines but since I live in Oregon, I have been transfixed (really just LMAO) by our state’s elected officials willingness to bow to all things PPACA.
The president held our ‘program’ up as a bastion of what is right in his speech about Obamacare a couple of weeks ago. He did that knowing not one person had been able to access CoverOregon’s website (since it hasn’t worked even before October 1st and isn’t going to be working even before the new year).
I know that once my mayor,I live in Silverton, whom everyone has made fun of publicly jumps on the O-care bandwagon, I will then know the healthcare shark has been officially jumped,humped and ready to be dumped.
Trent: I was just being a smartass, amigo. Everyone tends to “zero in” first on stories of local interest.
And in case anyone was wondering: no, the guy from CO who’s dog ended up getting coverage in his place was not our very own Joe the Rockclimber. (smile)
I loved that the dog got coverage. You have to love American citizens.
I read an article about how “Irish Democracy” has taken down more governments and government programs than revolution has.
So could this be ‘Irish Setter Democracy’?
Does this belong in the ‘giggle-snort’ category?
Just askin’.
Hondo, you are dead on: you can’t make this stuff up. You could try, but you will not succeed. Truth actually IS stranger than fiction.
Hondo, I would have, but I didn’t want to pull a Joe Biden and plagiarize something that had already said in the article’s comments.
I saw a story, today, where actor James Morrison, who played Bill Buchanan on 24, claims that the Obamacare website doesn’t work because it was hacked by conservatives who are angry about this stellar legislation not being defunded. Of course the tard has no proof, just a wild accusation, but he’s a hollyweird celebrity, so his word is fact.
Long ago, I used to work for a company that had a big, old mainframe computer that the company was trying to use as a means of monitoring its employees. The BFD was to have ALL computational work and communications offsite filtered through the computer.
I sat through several demonstrations where the “network” failed, and the meeting eventually dispersed. Because it was a research facility, the researchers all got MACs, which management tried to discourage by placing a price limit on the base equipment. So, the researchers bought basic MACs and then upgraded the hell out of them. I wasn’t a researcher, so I got stuck with an IBM clone and the network, which I never used.
The researchers got their work done, anyway. The company was eventually wound down and sold, because it had a low rate of return.
I can’t believe how many old, bad ideas the Obama administration has borrowed from known failures.
“Old bad ideas” — I’m sure there are plenty more to come. Just waiting, with bated breath.
I read an article yesterday about a woman who signed up for insurance @ $198 per month. She was so excited to finally have insurance that she wrote a glowing letter to the White House. Obama even mentioned her in his Rose Garden speech about how great the ACA is working.
She then received a letter informing her that the insurance she had purchased was going to be a little more expensive due to a tiny little mistake made when her subsidy was calculated. Instead of $198, she would pay $280 monthly.
Then she received another letter indicating that yet another mistake had been made. In fact, she would receive no subsidy at all and so her monthly bill would be $390. She cannot afford this.
I believe she calculated her penalty at $95 (unsure if per month). And no insurance.