Posted on 10/05/2013 9:03:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Media coverage of last week’s opening of online exchanges where people can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act was dominated by a focus on technical glitches and sign-up hassles. Since they were widely predicted, this led to a ho-hum quality in some reporting. Move along. There’s nothing to see here.
But those who looked a little deeper found vast sticker shock.
Locally, the San Diego Community College District quietly implemented a new rule this summer that puts a hard cap of 25 hours a week on adjunct faculty, short-term nonclassified employees and student workers. On Friday, the district said 809 employees were affected.
Nevertheless, the president continues to depict all criticism of his signature program as simply wrong, as he told Telemundo network last month. We hope Obama gets over his denial before long. If he doesn’t, the wreckage from Obamacare’s perverse incentives will be immense.
(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...
I still believe that Roberts was either bought off or the Obama and/or Clinton Machine has some goods on him.
“If we had just allocated an extra $260 billion a year to Medicaid, we would have had a better and cheaper national health program than ObamaCare.”
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If we had kept what we had and CUT medicaid five dollars we would have had something FAR BETTER AND CHEAPER than Obamacare. In fact someone would have to work long and hard to attempt to come up with anything WORSE than Obamacare.
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HERE'S ANOTHER DISSATISFIED OBAMACARE CUSTOMER
<><> “The plan that Congress is considering will provide health insurance to millions of Americans who don’t have it and control costs for millions more who do.” — Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, calling for Congress to pass ObamaCare, March 16, 2010
<><> “Right now, unless you and the Obama administration enact an equitable fix, the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.”— Hoffa in a July 2013 letter to Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top Senate and House Democrats.
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BAIT AND SWITCH LAWS---WIKI EXCERPT--Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud commonly used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts......even in politics.
First, customers are "baited" by sellers advertising products or services at a low price, but when customers visit the store, they discover that the advertised goods are not available, or the customers are pressured by sales people to consider similar, but higher priced items ("switching").
The intent of the bait-and-switch tactic is to encourage purchases of substituted goods, making consumers satisfied with the available stock offered, as an alternative to a disappointment or inconvenience of acquiring no goods (or bait) at all, and reckoning on a seemingly partial recovery of sunk costs expended trying to obtain the bait. It suggests that the seller will not show the original product or service advertised but instead will demonstrate a more expensive product or a similar product with a higher margin.
In the United States, courts have held that the purveyor using a bait-and-switch operation may be subject to a lawsuit by customers for false advertising, and can be sued for trademark infringement by competing manufacturers, retailers, and others who profit from the sale of the product used as bait. However, no cause of action will exist if the purveyor is capable of actually selling the goods advertised, but aggressively pushes a competing product.
Likewise, advertising a sale while intending to stock a limited amount of, and thereby sell out, a loss-leading item advertised is legal in the United States. The purveyor can escape liability if they make clear in their advertisements that quantities of items for which a sale is offered are limited, or by offering a rain check on sold-out items.
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BAIT AND SWITCH IN POLITICS In lawmaking, "caption bills" that propose minor changes in law with simplistic titles (the bait) are introduced to the legislature with the ultimate objective of substantially changing the wording (the switch) at a later date in order to try to smooth the passage of a controversial or major amendment.
Rule changes are also proposed (the bait) to meet legal requirements for public notice and mandated public hearings, then different rules are proposed at a final meeting (the switch), thus bypassing the objective of public notice and public discussion on the actual rules voted upon.
While legal, the political objective is to get legislation or rules passed without expected negative community review
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