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Obamacare: Mind-boggling incompetence
PJ Media ^ | 13Oct 2013 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 10/13/2013 10:12:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan

eHealthInsurance.com: If you like your plan, you probably won’t be able to keep your plan.

The Obama administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apparently had no interest in determining the best practices for setting up a health insurance purchasing website before plunging ahead with Obamacare’s.

eHealthInsurance.com: If you like your plan, you probably won’t be able to keep your plan.

The Obama administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apparently had no interest in determining the best practices for setting up a health insurance purchasing website before plunging ahead with Obamacare’s.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; zerocare
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1 posted on 10/13/2013 10:12:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

This, for the one or two of you who did not get it, was why they delayed implementation until after the 2012 election.


2 posted on 10/13/2013 10:15:39 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Rummyfan

Not mind boggling incompetence. Predictable government greed, graft, corruption and stupidity.


3 posted on 10/13/2013 10:16:30 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Rummyfan; Liz
Head fake! Is Healthcare.gov only an empty shell MOCKUP of a working Obamacare exchange?

Seriously: Has anybody considered the possibility that Healthcare.gov is just a front-end mockup of an online exchange and not actually a functioning application?

4 posted on 10/13/2013 10:20:08 AM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Rummyfan


5 posted on 10/13/2013 10:20:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Rummyfan
Incompetence by design. The objective was to get people so disgusted with insurance companies and employers that the whole scheme would collapse, and the "only alternative" is to go to single-payer system, a sort of super-HMO, that would put the death panels and the "cost-containment" boards in charge of the administration of the entire collection/disbursement facets.

The IRS undergoes the greatest mission creep of all time, as it becomes a de facto court, collection agency, repository of medical records, assessor, and paymaster. And they handle their present duties so well, too.

6 posted on 10/13/2013 10:21:46 AM PDT by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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To: Nachum

The fact that legislators, who passed this law, want to exempt themselves from ZeroCare only indicates its contempt for and disdain of the American people.


7 posted on 10/13/2013 10:27:08 AM PDT by 353FMG ( I don't say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: Rummyfan

Incompetence? The system is working as intended. They don’t want to deliver health care. They want to collect the fines for not having health care. That’s why the IRS is running this scam.


8 posted on 10/13/2013 10:32:24 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Rummyfan

We know owebama has no real-life work experience. What about sibelius? She was governor of Kansas but aside from that has she ever performed a real job? Probably a lawyer, too.


9 posted on 10/13/2013 10:33:19 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s strangling itself.


10 posted on 10/13/2013 10:36:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 43north
We know owebama has no real-life work experience. What about sibelius? She was governor of Kansas but aside from that has she ever performed a real job? Probably a lawyer, too.

Both are new world order minions.
11 posted on 10/13/2013 10:46:01 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: alloysteel
Yes, but it's healthcare.gov where people are experiencing problems.
12 posted on 10/13/2013 10:46:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

You can keep your plan. But the cost/month just doubled and the deductible went up to $1 more then you are ever likely to spend on heath care in a year.


13 posted on 10/13/2013 10:49:06 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Rummyfan

Am I correct in assuming that using a PRIVATE exchange or simply purchasing a policy outside Obamacare is suitable?


14 posted on 10/13/2013 10:52:40 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s NOT incompetence. It’s completely and utterly by design. Once you have that in your head, it all makes sense.


15 posted on 10/13/2013 11:14:17 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (I wish I lived in Texas.)
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To: 43north

How in the world did a fine state like Kansas...ever elect that incompetent marxist as Governor?


16 posted on 10/13/2013 12:01:04 PM PDT by qrstuv
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To: Sacajaweau

“It’s strangling itself.”
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No such luck. Like a malignancy, it will grow and grow, feeding off its host until the host is completely enfeebled and eventually dies. And THAT, dear friends, is exactly the intent of this pack of internationalist, Islam loving progressives.


17 posted on 10/13/2013 12:02:35 PM PDT by House Atreides ( D)
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To: Rummyfan

Speaking of Incompetence; by Jeff Foxworthy

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering ...and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

What a country! How about we give God a reason to continue blessing America! Amen (thank you Jeff)


18 posted on 10/13/2013 12:06:16 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Rummyfan

The leftists are planning by this time next year to have a euro-socialist single payer system replacing the failed Obamacare, for which of course the pubbies will be blamed. Leftists never let a good crisis go to waste - especially when they engineer it.


19 posted on 10/13/2013 12:11:38 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Rummyfan

Only “hundreds” have been able to sign up for a health care plan at the Obamacare websites. The Wall Street Journal reported:

Okay now we will try the landline # 1-800-318-2596 listed above or 1-800-318-2596 = 1-800-FAU-CKYO.


20 posted on 10/13/2013 1:01:07 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Boycott Reno & Las Vegas until those in control there, remove Reid from the senate!)
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