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  1. stumbler

    stumbler Porn Star

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    [h=2]The Incompetence Dogma[/h] [h=1]So Much for Obamacare Not Working[/h]
    *not_secure_link*www.nytimes.com/20...n-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
     
  2. M4MPetCock

    M4MPetCock Porn Star Banned!

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    Two words: "Employer mandate". Anyone seen how that part of Obamacare is working out in relation to the big picture of success you're happy to report on? No? No reports on the employer mandate? Oh, THAT'S RIGHT! That part of Obamacare hasn't been implemented yet. Yep, nothing spells "success" like a program where a major provision hasn't even been implemented yet. Gee, now why would that be? I mean, this is the liberal success story of the century. I'm sure employers are just itching to be a part of that success. Why would Obama deprive them of that right?

    And how about that "section 1342", huh? That stays in place until the end of 2016, just when Obama leaves office. Man, you'd have thought that Obama would want at least a year without that provision so he could brag about its success without people wondering whether those funds were helping insurance companies keep rates artificially low. Well, I guess the next pres will "inherit" the pleasure of sharing of sharing that glorious news.
     
  3. magic4589

    magic4589 Lefty with Nasty Sex Fantasies

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  5. stumbler

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    [h=1]Thanks, Obama: Signs of improvement in U.S. health costs, coverage[/h]
    *not_secure_link*www.rawstory.com/r...-of-improvement-in-u-s-health-costs-coverage/
     
  6. CS natureboy

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    The Obama administration is struggling to resolve data discrepancies that could jeopardize coverage for millions who sought health insurance on the federal exchange HealthCare.gov, according to a watchdog report on the still-rocky implementation of ObamaCare.

    Though the system's troubles have faded from the headlines since the problem-plagued launch last October, a report from the health department inspector general provided the first independent look at widespread issues the government is having effectively fact-checking the information applicants are putting in the system.

    According to the report, the administration was unable to resolve 2.6 million so-called "inconsistencies" out of a total of 2.9 million such problems from October through December 2013.

    The government needs to determine applicants' eligibility in order to verify they can enroll and, in some cases, get government subsidies. Without that step, coverage could be jeopardized. Critics fear these issues also could cause chaos during the 2015 tax-filing season, as many would have to pay back subsidy money they were not entitled to.

    According to the report, those running the federal marketplace are having trouble resolving problems "even if applicants submitted appropriate documentation."

    "The federal marketplace was generally incapable of resolving most inconsistencies," the report said, claiming the government could not resolve 89 percent of the problems.

    And of the roughly 330,000 cases that could be straightened out, the administration had only actually resolved about 10,000 during the period of the inspector general's audit. That worked out to less than 1 percent of the total.

    The report said that most of the problems dealt with citizenship and income information supplied by consumers that conflicted with what the federal government had on record. The report said the government's eligibility system was not fully functional.

    The data above doesn't even reflect what's happening with the state-run exchanges. According to the same report, four of the 15 state marketplaces reported they were "unable to resolve inconsistencies." They are: Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Vermont.

    The findings come after President Obama celebrated 8 million sign-ups as proof that technical problems which initially kept many consumers from enrolling had finally been overcome. It now turns out that some of those problems continued out of sight. The inspector general said the efforts of the administration and states to clear up the discrepancies were complicated by lingering computer issues.

    The issue is one of the top challenges facing newly installed HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

    Republicans pointed to this and one other IG report -- which questioned internal safeguards for checking eligibility -- as evidence the system still is not working, and fraudulent payments could be made.

    "This report is one more example of just how flawed the president's health care law is," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement. "Whatever one's opinion of ObamaCare, the American public deserves to know that their tax dollars are allocated appropriately and that public officials take their responsibility to accurately and faithfully apply the laws enacted by Congress seriously."

    Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said the system has allowed "millions of Americans to enroll in a system that may be handing them the wrong subsidies -- too much or too little -- and they've left taxpayers vulnerable to fraud."

    The report was requested by congressional Republicans as a condition of ending the budget standoff that triggered a partial government shutdown last fall. Republicans say they are concerned that people who are not legally entitled to the law's government-subsidized private health insurance could nonetheless be getting it.

    The inspector general stopped short of drawing such conclusions.

    "Inconsistencies do not necessarily indicate that an applicant provided inaccurate information ... or is receiving financial assistance through insurance affordability programs inappropriately," the report said.

    However, the watchdog office called on the administration to publicly explain how and by what date it will resolve the data problems in the 36 states where Washington is operating new insurance markets.

    In a written response to the report, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner said the administration concurs with the recommendations and is working on a plan. Tavenner also said that some of the computer issues that were getting in the way of resolving the problems have now been overcome.

    "It is not surprising that there are inconsistencies between some information provided by application filers and the (government's) electronic data sources," she said.

    The law provides the administration with the option of extending an initial 90-day period for clearing up discrepancies.

    Fox News' Jim Angle and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
    *not_secure_link*www.foxnews.com/po...t-obamacare-data-problems-affecting-millions/
     
  7. CS natureboy

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    ObamaCare coverage for millions in jeopardy as watchdog finds widespread data flaws


    Published July 01, 2014



    The Obama administration is struggling to resolve data discrepancies that could jeopardize coverage for millions who sought health insurance on the federal exchange HealthCare.gov, according to a watchdog report on the still-rocky implementation of ObamaCare.

    Though the system's troubles have faded from the headlines since the problem-plagued launch last October, a report from the health department inspector general provided the first independent look at widespread issues the government is having effectively fact-checking the information applicants are putting in the system.

    According to the report, the administration was unable to resolve 2.6 million so-called "inconsistencies" out of a total of 2.9 million such problems from October through December 2013.

    The government needs to determine applicants' eligibility in order to verify they can enroll and, in some cases, get government subsidies. Without that step, coverage could be jeopardized. Critics fear these issues also could cause chaos during the 2015 tax-filing season, as many would have to pay back subsidy money they were not entitled to.

    According to the report, those running the federal marketplace are having trouble resolving problems "even if applicants submitted appropriate documentation."

    "The federal marketplace was generally incapable of resolving most inconsistencies," the report said, claiming the government could not resolve 89 percent of the problems.

    And of the roughly 330,000 cases that could be straightened out, the administration had only actually resolved about 10,000 during the period of the inspector general's audit. That worked out to less than 1 percent of the total.

    The report said that most of the problems dealt with citizenship and income information supplied by consumers that conflicted with what the federal government had on record. The report said the government's eligibility system was not fully functional.

    The data above doesn't even reflect what's happening with the state-run exchanges. According to the same report, four of the 15 state marketplaces reported they were "unable to resolve inconsistencies." They are: Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Vermont.

    The findings come after President Obama celebrated 8 million sign-ups as proof that technical problems which initially kept many consumers from enrolling had finally been overcome. It now turns out that some of those problems continued out of sight. The inspector general said the efforts of the administration and states to clear up the discrepancies were complicated by lingering computer issues.

    The issue is one of the top challenges facing newly installed HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

    Republicans pointed to this and one other IG report -- which questioned internal safeguards for checking eligibility -- as evidence the system still is not working, and fraudulent payments could be made.

    "This report is one more example of just how flawed the president's health care law is," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement. "Whatever one's opinion of ObamaCare, the American public deserves to know that their tax dollars are allocated appropriately and that public officials take their responsibility to accurately and faithfully apply the laws enacted by Congress seriously."

    Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said the system has allowed "millions of Americans to enroll in a system that may be handing them the wrong subsidies -- too much or too little -- and they've left taxpayers vulnerable to fraud."

    The report was requested by congressional Republicans as a condition of ending the budget standoff that triggered a partial government shutdown last fall. Republicans say they are concerned that people who are not legally entitled to the law's government-subsidized private health insurance could nonetheless be getting it.

    The inspector general stopped short of drawing such conclusions.

    "Inconsistencies do not necessarily indicate that an applicant provided inaccurate information ... or is receiving financial assistance through insurance affordability programs inappropriately," the report said.

    However, the watchdog office called on the administration to publicly explain how and by what date it will resolve the data problems in the 36 states where Washington is operating new insurance markets.

    In a written response to the report, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner said the administration concurs with the recommendations and is working on a plan. Tavenner also said that some of the computer issues that were getting in the way of resolving the problems have now been overcome.

    "It is not surprising that there are inconsistencies between some information provided by application filers and the (government's) electronic data sources," she said.

    The law provides the administration with the option of extending an initial 90-day period for clearing up discrepancies.

    Fox News' Jim Angle and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
    *not_secure_link*www.foxnews.com/po...t-obamacare-data-problems-affecting-millions/
     
  8. magic4589

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    It'll be resolved when people put in their tax returns for next year.
     
  9. tommyturtle

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    At least that is what they will tell us...until the stories start hitting the news.
     
  10. M4MPetCock

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    You're not questioning the competency of the IRS are you? Yeah, so they can't seem to find receipts for a few hundred million in expenditures for conferences. (And what happens when Joe Six Pack can't provide receipts to justify HIS expenditures/deductions? WHAM! IRS hammer!) And so what if thousands of emails, coincidentally, emails by a specific person during a specific time period needed for a specific investigation, are suddenly (allegedly) lost forever in the great ether of bureaucracy, because (again, allegedly), despite the IRS having a budget of $12 BILLION FREAKIN' DOLLARS, only contracted with an email arching service to cover emails within the division of "IRS Counsel" and nowhere else.

    Are you saying, just because they've had some very suspicious coincidences occur when their integrity is questioned, that they might be less than forthcoming, especially about a program that benefited them by adding thousands of employees to their already bloated bureaucracy? Pshaw!
     
  11. tommyturtle

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    I didn't say that. (They have ways of learning my address.)
     
  12. stumbler

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    Two New Studies Are Bad News for People Who Dislike Obamacare

    *not_secure_link*www.mediaite.com/o...re-bad-news-for-people-who-dislike-obamacare/
     
  13. M4MPetCock

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    Interesting...

    survey from the Commonwealth Fund

    Are Americans Enrolling in Affordable Care Act Health Plans?

    Of adults who visited the marketplaces, half selected private plan or enrolled in Medicaid. Larger shares of young adults enrolled in Medicaid than older adults.

    Percent enrolling in a health plan, Apr.–June 2014 see details
    51%
    Adults ages 19–64 who visited the marketplaces

    Aren't those "young adults" the crucial demographic whose royal screwing was considered crucial, using their higher-than-everyone-else's premiums for their needed/wanted/used-less-than-evveryone-else's insurance plans? Now it looks like he's achieved the opposite. Instead of paying more and using it less, now they'll be paying nothing (or next to nothing) and are freee (literally) to hit the emergency room at the first sign of a sniffle, like many Medicaid users. (I used to work the Registration Desk at New England Medical Center in Boston. I've seen it.)
     
  14. Distant Lover

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    tommyturtle, you have this in your signature:

    "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willint to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson


    I am skeptical of quotes of this nature, so I looked it up on the the internet. This is what I found on the Jefferson Monticello website:

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    Quotation: "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
    Variations: None known.
    Sources consulted: Searching on the phrase "democracy will cease to exist" and "willing to work"

    1. Monticello website
    2. Ford's Works of Thomas Jefferson
    3. L&B (CD-ROM version)
    4. UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government, Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
    5. Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
    6. Quotable Jefferson (searching in the index under "democracy" and "work") Earliest known appearance in print: 1986[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP]
      Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson: See above.
      Other attributions: None known.
      Status: This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
      *not_secure_link*www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-will-cease-to-exist-quotation
     
  15. anotheruser1

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    Democrats and even some republicans are really stupid enough to believe the information and numbers put out by the obama administration. Lets not forget that obama himself has been caught in 700+ lies that have been well documented. If you believe anything a person says that has been proven to have lied about 700+ issues and cover ups you are crazy.

    To quote the great George Carlin "I never believe anything the government tells me"
     
  16. M4MPetCock

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    I wonder if this study included people from places like Massachusetts, Oregon, or any other of the places where state exchanges were nothing but complete failures. Hundreds of millions spent on Oregon's exchange, and it never worked. Never served one person.

    Massachusetts' connector had to be scrapped and all of their registrations were done over the phone, with reps filling out paper applications.

    Then again, I can't see how this story would have been rosy if they'd included people from those states.

    Here's yet another story on MA spending more money on their exchange.

    Connector set for big-budget hiring spree

    Friday, July 11, 2014



    The Massachusetts Health Connector will embark on a hiring spree this year — spending an extra $1.6 million on personnel, including raises for staffers — and raid its cash reserves to make ends meet as the struggling agency tries to relaunch its disastrous online Obamacare exchange by November.

    “It’s like throwing darts at Jell-O,” said Joshua Archambault, a health care expert at the Pioneer Institute, of the Connector’s budget numbers. “To (Administration and Finance Secretary Glen) Shor’s credit, he said budgets are living documents that will constantly change. It was probably the understatement of the meeting.”

    Staffers at the embattled agency are in line to rake in raises of up to 3 percent, but only if they successfully relaunch the state’s troubled website by November, a spokesman said.

    The Connector passed a $97.6 million budget at a board meeting yesterday that includes taking $10.1 million, or nearly 40 percent, from its $26.7 million reserve account to balance its books over the next year.

    “We think it is appropriate to buy some fiscal protection during the transition period,” said Daniel Apicella, the Connector’s director of finance.

    The Connector is trying to transfer as many as 230,000 Bay Staters from temporary Medicaid insurance to permanent health plans and also relaunch a failed website by November to enroll all Obamacare customers for 2015.

    Apicella said the Connector will add staff to help with member transition, business operations and information technology to “stand up an improved website.” As a result, the Connector’s spending on personnel will jump 27 percent, to $7.7 million, from $6.1 million last year.

    But Connector officials did not offer details on how many staffers they’ll hire, what their job titles will be, and if the added personnel expenses also include employee raises.

    Meanwhile, state Obamacare czar Maydad Cohen expressed renewed hope that Virginia-based hCentive will be able to launch the new site on time, after demonstrating the portal to officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

    The Connector is simultaneously developing the hCentive software and preparing to join the federal HealthCare.gov as a backup. A final decision will be made at the Connector’s board meeting next month after another meeting with the feds.

    “I’m increasingly cautiously optimistic about our ability to deliver the hCentive product,” said Cohen.
     
  17. stumbler

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    We don't have to go any further than that highlight. The ACA was patterned after the Massachusetts state insurance program and it is still working exceptionally well. The reason President Obama and the Democrats knew the "individual mandate" was constitutional is because it was first proposed by the conservative/Republicans, and written up by the Heritage Society.

    So like I've pointed out before, and not that it makes him a bad person, but you have to cut some slack with this one. You know what I mean?
     
  18. M4MPetCock

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    Blowbama likes to say that, but what they've come out with is nothing close to what the MA Romneycare (See? I can call it that.) was. In fact, stories about about how Blowbamacare was going to ruin the very system that Blowbamacare was ALLEGEDLY modeled on. The legislature BEGGED over and over, for Governor Mini Me to ask for a waiver. But Devalued Patrick wouldn't dare insult his friend by doing that. It got so bad, the legislature even tried to vote on a resolution ORDERING MiniMe to ask for a waiver. It fell short by a few votes.

    And thus we have, what WAS a working Romneycare, is now a tens-of-millions of dollars wasted, over the budget, piece of shit website that has to be relaunched.

    Keep defending the messiah, Stumbelina.
     
  19. stumbler

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    Actually even Reublicans like the ACA.
     
  20. ridgerunner

    ridgerunner gardener of stone

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    *not_secure_link*www.cnbc.com/id/10...adline|headline|story&par=yahoo&doc=101827446

    Uninsured rate tumbles in Obamacare's aftermath

    Obamacare put a big dent in the uninsured rate—but will probably take the summer off before it tackles another steep decline.

    According to a Gallup survey released Thursday, the percentage of people in the U.S. who lack health insurance fell to a six-year low in the second quarter of 2014, registering the lowest rate since Gallup began questioning people about their insurance status in 2008.

    By the end of June, 13.4 percent of the population lacked health insurance, a 2.2-point drop from the prior quarter, said Gallup.

    That's down significantly from mid-2013, when the uninsured rate hit a record high of 18 percent of the population.

    The plunge in that rate began in late 2013, as Obamacare exchanges began selling health insurance in earnest, and as enrollment in government-run Medicaid programs increased.

    For its survey, Gallup randomly sampled more than 45,000 adults between the beginning of April and the end of June. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 1 percent.

    Gallup said a big driver behind the second-quarter decline occurred at the beginning of April, when several million people signed up for Obamacare plans after an effective two-week extension of the March 31 enrollment deadline.

    Since then, the uninsured rate has remained flat, suggesting that there will not be any further significant decreases in the rate until after Obamacare's second open-enrollment season begins in mid-November, Gallup noted.









    *not_secure_link*www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/republicans-health-insurance_n_5574079.html

    Republicans Who Signed Up For Obamacare This Year Are Pretty Happy

    Republicans who signed up for Obamacare this year are liking their new insurance coverage, according to a new survey.

    A poll of Obamacare enrollees published Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund found that 74 percent of newly insured Republicans are happy with the plans they bought. Overall, 77 percent of people who had insurance prior to the rollout of the Affordable Care Act said they are pleased with the new coverage they obtained in the last year.

    The survey revealed the current uninsured rate among working-age adults in the U.S. has dropped to 15 percent, down from 20 percent in July-September 2013 -- meaning an estimated 9.5 million people have gained coverage since then.

    But the survey wasn't all good news. HuffPost's Jeffrey Young reports that more than one-third of the lowest-income residents in states that didn't take up the Obamacare Medicaid expansion at the beginning of this year remain uninsured. That rate is virtually unchanged from last year, even as millions gained coverage elsewhere.

    For more on the survey, visit the Commonwealth Fund.