Obama wants special treatment from the media

Posted on November 14, 2013 by ChrisA

So clueless – Obama Slams Media: You Guys Don’t Write About What Goes Right.

Finally the MSM is deciding not to be his wingman and he starts whining. Look in ther mirror, that IS where the problem lies.

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Obamacare Architect: Genetic “Lottery Winners” Have Been Paying An “Artificially Low Price”

Posted on November 14, 2013 by ChrisA

No good driver discount: Obamacare Architect: Genetic “Lottery Winners” Have Been Paying An “Artificially Low Price” | RealClearPolitics.

It’s 12 million people, about a third of which will end up paying more under this law. And that as you said in the introductions sort of the idea. We currently have a highly discriminatory system where if you’re sick, if you’ve been sick or [if] you’re going to get sick, you cannot get health insurance.

The only way to end that discriminatory system is to bring everyone into the system and pay one fair price. That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who’ve been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination now will have to pay more in return. And that, by my estimate, is about four million people. In return, we’ll have a fixed system where over 30 million people will now for the first time be able to access fairly price and guaranteed health insurance.

I don’t understand the “if you’re going to get sick” thing.

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The Daily Drudge Obamacare update

Posted on November 14, 2013 by ChrisA

via Drudgereport.com

ObamacareFixToday

Nancy, we’ve got to pass the law to see what’s in it…, the fix will be a joke. I can’t wait to hear it. Wonder if Obama will be late to his own party again?

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Obama tries to save Obamacare…

Posted on November 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Obama to Make Statement on Health Reform. I predict there will be more statements in the upcoming weeks. The problem is Obama has lost the narrative.

US President Barack Obama is to make a statement on the troubled implementation of his landmark healthcare reform at 11:35 am (1635 GMT) from the White House on Thursday, his office said.

The previously unscheduled appearance was announced as Obama’s plan to provide cheaper care for uninsured Americans was undermined by serious technical problems with the sign-up process. (emphasis added)

Uugh, except in a large majority of cases it isn’t cheaper unless they go on Medicaid. Just ask Kirsten Powers of all people.

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Prairies vanish in the US push for green energy

Posted on November 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Collateral damage – Prairies vanish in the US push for green energy – SFGate. (Means justify the ends, at least supposedly)

Robert Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that prices are high and he can finally make a profit, he’s not about to apologize for ripping up prairieland to plant corn.

Across the Dakotas and Nebraska, more than 1 million acres of the Great Plains are giving way to corn fields as farmers transform the wild expanse that once served as the backdrop for American pioneers.

It’s for green energy and for the chldren.

This expansion of the Corn Belt is fueled in part by America’s green energy policy, which requires oil companies to blend billions of gallons of corn ethanol into their gasoline. In 2010, fuel became the No. 1 use for corn in America, a title it held in 2011 and 2012 and narrowly lost this year. That helps keep prices high.

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Colorado Obamacare ads not paid for with state funds, backers say – The Denver Post

Posted on November 13, 2013 by ChrisA

Colorado: Got insurance?Colorado Obamacare ads not paid for with state funds, backers say – The Denver Post.

Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this (free) birth control.

In response to a barrage of Twitter inquiries Wednesday morning, two Colorado  organizations responsible for controversial Obamacare advertisements said their  private non-profit organizations have never received government funding.

Do you believe them?

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For Obama, loss of trust over health-care law poses major problems for his agenda, legacy

Posted on November 13, 2013 by ChrisA

Really? Couldn’t see this one coming? For Obama, loss of trust over health-care law poses major problems for his agenda, legacy – The Washington Post.

The main stream media protected Obama until he couldn’t be protected anymore. Note to MSM, you didn’t do Obama or the nation any favors. Go away.

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Duh: This chart does not look good for President Obama

Posted on November 13, 2013 by ChrisA

This chart does not look good for President Obama. It only takes common sense to understand this. It’s amazing to see Democrats discover their inner common sense.

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Obamacare not a “hit” even in Massachusetts

Posted on November 13, 2013 by ChrisA

Only 1% of Massachusetts Cancellations Have Enrolled for ObamaCare.

There are too many rolling and coming catastrophes caused by ObamaCare to keep track of. Just wait until the employer market is hit late next year. But within a few weeks, a humanitarian crisis is about to hit millions who could find themselves without health insurance. Millions who had their insurance policies cancelled are now unable to re-insure themselves on the broken ObamaCare websites. In liberal Massachusetts alone, only 1% of those cancellations have re-enrolled. (emphasis added)

The death spiral conclusion…

For those who are already ill or might get ill early next year, this is no laughing matter. How many of the millions who had their policies cancelled have scheduled surgery or chemotherapy in early January. And how many of those, through no fault of their own, won’t be covered because they can’t access the ObamaCare site or afford the ObamaCare-approved plan?

On top of that, if a large portion of the millions who had their insurance cancelled simply refuse to re-enroll, you can bet that those refusing will be the young and healthy needed to keep ObamaCare financially viable. The result of an insurance pool filled with the sick and elderly would be skyrocketing premiums; which means more healthy people drop out, which mean prices go even higher.

That is called the death spiral.

It is becoming more and more likely that by this time next year, ObamaCare could result in an increase in the number of Americans who are uninsured.

This is President Obama’s signature piece of legislation. Progressives are just starting to figure out his magic want is broken. Conservatives know he never had one.

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Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization

Posted on November 12, 2013 by ChrisA

Only psuedo intellectual progressives couldn’t see this one coming – Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization – The Denver Post. Commons sense is so difficult for some people.

Wow, what do you think the first step is in raising test scores?

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Obamacare Collateral Damage

Posted on November 12, 2013 by ChrisA

Obamacare Collateral Damage

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Healthcare.gov is NOT secure: Be careful out there

Posted on November 12, 2013 by ChrisA

Use healthcare.gov at your own risk – The PJ Tatler » HHS Now Begging People to Use Terribly Unsecure Healthcare.gov.

But let’s set that aside. Healthcare.gov is not secure. HHS is not warning people that they’re using Healthcare.gov at their own risk, even though they are.

At what point will the mainstream media catch and realize that every time the Obama administration asks/demands anyone use the unsecured Healthcare.gov, it is asking them to put themselves at grave personal risk — just for the sake of propping up Obama’s failing policy?

Obama lied to get elected and to get Obamacare passed. Then he lied to get re-elected. Now his administration is selfishly putting its own flagging legitimacy above Americans’ own personal security. This ought to be a massive scandal.

Not going to happen. By the time this is over, almost everyone is going to be collateral damage for Obama’s namesake plan. How pathetic.

 

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If you like your plan you can keep your plan

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ChrisA

This about sums it up: MyCancellation.com

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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust — time to act

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ChrisA

Be careful out there.

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Obamacare – Blinding You With Science | Zero Hedge

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ChrisA

Obamacare – Blinding You With Science | Zero Hedge.

If you’re critical of the government, this is a beautiful failure.

Supporters of the president and the health care law in his name see this as a small hiccup. To be sure, people say that all of these problems will be fixed. That the problems with creating an account are mere technical issues. Top technicians from the best companies have all been hired by the government to make it right.

In other words, it’s only a matter of time. Maybe.

But there is a more substantive issue here. The real question is how an epic failure on this scale could have happened in the first place. The Affordable Care Act is the fulfillment of decades of planning on the part of policy professionals. They had a half billion dollars to work with. The so-called “smartest guys in the room” had every incentive to make this rollout work.

So why was it such a mess?

Yes, what he asked. Read the whole thing, central planning and all. One more teaser…

The website is a metaphor for a program that cannot work. If it is fixed, it will be frozen in time, unable to adapt to change, much less improve as technology improves.

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How Medicaid Fails the Poor: Avik Roy: Amazon.com: Books

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ChrisA

I’d say we’re about to start a gigantic experiment – How Medicaid Fails the Poor: Avik Roy: 9781594037528: Amazon.com: Books.

Medicaid, America’s government-run health insurance program for the poor, should be a lifeline that provides needed health care to Americans with no other options. Surprisingly, however, it doesn’t. The medical literature reveals a $450 billion-a-year scandal: that people on Medicaid have far worse health outcomes than those with private insurance, and no better outcomes than those with no insurance at all.

Why is this so? In How Medicaid Fails the Poor, Avik Roy explains how Medicaid’s clumsy design and perverse incentives make it hard for people on Medicaid to get the medical care they need. Medicaid doesn’t reimburse doctors or hospitals for the cost of caring for Medicaid enrollees, forcing many doctors to opt out of the program.

The Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, doubles down on this broken system. Roy shows us that there are better ways, using private insurance, to provide needed care to our poorest citizens.

With bureaucratic idiocy like this, Honesty doesn’t pay off for ex-homeless man, I don’t see how the government can provide useful health coverage via Medicaid.

A good deed has come back to haunt a formerly homeless northern New Jersey man.James Brady found $850 on a Hackensack sidewalk last April and turned it in to police. Brady was awarded the money six months later after no one contacted police during the required waiting period.

Now, The Record reports that Brady has been denied General Assistance and Medicaid benefits by the Hackensack Human Services Department through Dec. 31 because he failed to report the $850 as new income he received.

The director of human services tells the newspaper they are just following the rules.

Brady was homeless when he found the money but has since found housing. He was featured in news reports nationwide for turning in the money, despite his own financial struggles.

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So Boulder: Deadly Diseases Like Measles And Mumps Make Frightening Comeback

Posted on November 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Deadly Diseases Like Measles And Mumps Make Frightening Comeback « CBS Baltimore.

Just how serious a problem is it when a child gets sick? Summer Robinson experienced it firsthand. Her son, Roarik, was just three-weeks-old when whooping cough put him in intensive care for five days and nearly killed him.

Bui: “When you went to the hospital and he was diagnosed with whooping cough, what went through your mind?”

Robinson: “You worry about, are they going to start breathing again? If they do start breathing, how long have they not been breathing? What are the side effects of that going to be? It’s just so scary.”

Too young for the recommended vaccine, Roarik was defenseless. He’s living proof one contagious person can start an outbreak.

“If your ten-year-old has it and you’re in Walmart near my three-week-old baby, you could essentially kill my three-week-old baby because you didn’t want to vaccinate your child,” said Johnson.

For those of you who don’t vaccinate your children. You’re not better than us, or a smarter than us, although you MAY be a member of the so called “intellectual elite” that makes you believe so. What you are, quite clearly, is STOOPIDER THAN US and more SELFISH than us.

added: Counterpoint from the comments:

Ok, look, one vaccine here, another there, some time in between is one thing, but if any of you don’t bother to even question why “children may receive as many as 20 shots by two years of age and up to five shots in a single visit. By age two, children born today will have three doses of hepatitis B, four doses of DTP, four doses of Hib, three doses of polio, four doses of PCV, one dose of MMR, and one dose of chicken pox vaccine. At around four to six years they will be given booster doses of DTP and polio and second doses of MMR and chicken pox.”  WHEREAS from the 50’s..”By the mid 1980s, there were seven vaccines routinely given to children: DTP; measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); and polio (smallpox was discontinued in the early 1970s). DTP and MMR were given in two shots, and polio vaccine was given by mouth. Children still received five shots by the time they were two years of age and not more than one shot at a single visit.”  See, it’s the amount and frequency that I question–that all should question.  I’m a savvy parent–I QUESTION IT.  Plus, pesky editorializing here–were all these outbreaks happening in kids that were not vaccinated?  The article implies such, but does not go into detail over ddx of these outbreaks.

I’m sympathetic to that argument of so many vaccines in such a short time. Seems above and beyond.

On not so serious of level and to hijack my own post, it reminds me of what I consider the overtesting of students today. To be clear, I AM a proponent of testing to both evaluate the student and the teaching process. BUT the number and length of testing has simply gotten out of control. If I had it to do over again, I would be actively looking at ways of minimizing my childs participation in the testing.

 

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The government thinks you’re stupid, or at least ignorant.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Father Fed Knows Best | National Review Online.

This isn’t just an indictment of the current government or an indictment of government itself. It’s simply a statement of fact. At its core, the government exists to do certain things that people aren’t equipped to do on their own. The list of those things has gotten longer and longer over the years. In 1776, the federal government’s portfolio could have easily fit in a file folder: maintain an army and navy, a few federal courts, the post office, the patent office, and maybe a dozen or two other pretty obvious things.

Jonah Goldburg concludes…

From a conservative perspective, telling people how to run their lives when not absolutely necessary is an abuse of power. For liberals, telling people how to run their lives is one of the really fun perks of working for the government.

Is that so Boulder or what?

You can see the frustration on the president’s face. It’s almost like the ingrates who refuse to understand that his were necessary lies for their own good are spoiling all his fun.

I say let’s give liar President Barack Obama nightmares. Oh and let’s not forget “He’s Sorry” but he would do it all again, you can bet on it.

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Obamacare by morning (from CMA)

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ChrisA

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Edie Sundby: “The reason I’m alive today…”

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ChrisA

The biggest loser here is trust and respect for government. Trust and respect for our leaders.

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My plan was fabulous.

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Since 2005 it has been fantastic, giving me total freedom to choose.


Don’t touch my junk.

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