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How did Kathleen Sebelius make so many visits to the White House, and at the same time, supposedly leave Barack Obama and the rest of the White House completely and totally in the dark about the implementation problems related to Obamacare? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in frequent contact with President Obama …
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Short version of this post: The implementation of Obamacare still leaves much to be desired. And when I write "much," I mean it. The long version of this post follows below. First of all, let it be noted that the White House website still tells us that "You can keep your own insurance." Either the administration …
I presume that this is the "new and improved" Obamacare that everyone is suddenly supposed to be enthusiastic about: After refusing for weeks to detail the extent of back-end problems with healthcare.gov, the Obama administration on Friday said a technical bug affected approximately 25 percent of enrollments on the federal exchanges in October and November. Those technical bugs, …
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Before reading this story and the excerpt that immediately follows, ensure first that your expectations are as low as they can possibly be. Done? Good. Now read: Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site’s capacity so …
And I'm supposed to believe it based on reports like this one from Ezra Klein, who tells us the following: A spin through HealthCare.Gov this morning went smoothly. The site loaded quickly. The process progressed easily. There were no error messages or endless hangs. I didn't complete the final step of purchasing insurance but, until then, …
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Let's go through the lowlights: Organizing for America has seen fit to send out talking points telling people how to advocate in favor of Obamacare over Thanksgiving dinner. These people are a laugh riot. More cyber security problems we were assured we would never have to put up with. And still more. Scary sentence of the …
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The bad news regarding the implementation of health care "reform" just keeps on coming: Cathy Wagner says she isn’t political and has never written a lawmaker, much less the president, but with Obamacare she felt compelled. “I really just wanted him to know … I was so hopeful that this plan was going to move …
This latest Obamacare update features a semi-apology from the president of the United States: President Obama said Thursday that he is "sorry" that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the Affordable Care Act, despite his promise that no one would have to give up a health plan they …
WASHINGTON (PejmanYousefzadeh.net)--Jeffrey D. Zients, who has been asked by the Obama administration to fix the problem-riddled HealthCare.gov has gone missing, report sources who work closely with Mr. Zients. Police and the FBI are investigating whether Mr. Zients is the victim of foul play. Co-workers report that immediately after having begun work to fix the troubled …
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At the risk of asking a naïve question that will live forever on the Internet, how much worse do things have to get before someone from the Obama administration gets fired for deliberately misleading the public? In the opening days of Obamacare’s October 1 launch, federal officials touted high web-traffic numbers, but repeatedly refused to provide …
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