As ‘Obamacare’ exchange deadline passes, 26 states opt in with feds [States tell Feds to shove it]

Wash Times ^ | Sat, February 16, 2013 | Tom Howell Jr.

[berdie]

That history makes things a little more clear.

Actually, I have to wonder if the Dems thought this nightmare would really pass. (I know I didn’t think it would) So maybe they were ill prepared for implementation.

Nah, the Feds always think before doing. What was I thinking?

[muawiyah]

Just using FEHB as a model of what they intend with the exchanges, that system handles about 4 million people. Your average state has 6 million people.

That should set off alarms ~ if the average state has 50% MORE people to deal with than FEHB, there goes the idea that FEHB personnel and contract support folks can provide advice and training to the newbies in this business.

Frankly, unless your market is composed of people known to have an abiding and vital interest in their health care benefits this thing isn't going to work!

[Reagan80]

It’s not *just* that...Those Fed Employees are viewing their choices as a *benefit*; something they’ve earned through their employment agreement, be it verbal or written.

Being forced to choose something or else be fined $2,000 (basically having your tax refund stolen from you) will undoubtedly *not* be looked at as a benefit, but rather as a *Punishment*; which is, in fact, what it is.

Instead of eager participants, fully involved and invested in the choice and having it be a success; you’ll have disinterested people with low-level or entry-level jobs currently not providing insurance, who will ‘turn-out’ to sign up at a rate equal to or lower than turnout for an off-year election.

I’ve found that disinterested people are disinterested in all aspects of life. I’ll be kind and say that perhaps they just prioritize differently than people who are more involved with actively managing their affairs and life in general.

[muawiyah]

53% of college graduates in recent years are unemployed. They will be disinterested in a different sort of way than you imagine.

First off I wouldn't like to be the IRS jackboot trying to collect the fines from any of them ~ particularly those living at home SINCE any 'family income' standard necessarily excludes them from the freebies ~ and that's in this deal somewhere ~ we may not see it clearly but it's there. This whole law was written by psychosociopathic monsters so that's how we can know that with certainty.

Secondly, they will actively sabotage whatever does get set up ~ and that will cost the system more than it's been budgeted to handle ~ or that it has resources for.

ObamaKKKare is an all around waste of time for everybody. Some will suffer on account of it. None will benefit.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to find mobs of unemployed young people chasing down Democrat politicians in alleys and beating them.