{"id":39831,"date":"2014-02-16T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39831"},"modified":"2014-02-15T23:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T04:51:55","slug":"more-obamacare-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39831","title":{"rendered":"More ObamaCare Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38881\">problems with the Federal government&#8217;s web-based enrollment system <\/a>supporting &#8220;healthcare exchanges&#8221; under the\u00a0\u00a0 <del>Plainly Puerile\u00a0 and Absurd Collection of Asininity<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, AKA &#8220;ObamaCare&#8221;.\u00a0 But what about those states that run their own exchanges?\u00a0 They\u2019re doing great, right?<\/p>\n<p>Um, not so much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MD:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/health\/bs-md-exchange-harris-20140212,0,6897352.story\">$138 million spent, $33 million over budget, lots of problems, facing possible Federal audit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>OR:\u00a0 state exchange site never worked, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-care\/oregon-health-care-exchange-website-never-worked-has-no-subscribers-f2D11624178\">has signed up zero individuals<\/a>.\u00a0 They spent over $300M and are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/index.ssf\/2014\/02\/congressional_request_for_prob.html\">possibly facing Federal audit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>CO:\u00a0 head of agency running the state healthcare exchange suspended from duties and currently under Federal indictment for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2014\/02\/12\/colorado-health-care-exchange-montana\/105890\/\">charges of financial fraud<\/a> related to activities occurring prior to taking office.<\/li>\n<li>CA:\u00a0 operations of state small-business healthcare exchange site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/371143\/calif-shuts-down-obamacare-small-biz-exchange-alec-torres\">suspended due to multiple issues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>MA: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2014\/02\/gov_deval_patrick_hires_new_ma.html\">huge backlog, poorly managed, top management replaced<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally:\u00a0 it looks like ObamaCare coverage might not be so good for folks with preexisting conditions after all \u2013 they\u2019ll likely see higher than previous out-of-pocket costs for drugs.\u00a0 Higher, as in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/02\/15\/obamacare-patients-with-serious-pre-existing-diseases-could-face-expensive-drug\">no help at all from their insurance<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that ObamaCare is really working great \u2013 ain\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00a0 This turd simply can&#8217;t be polished.\u00a0 It need needs to be scrapped, pronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We heard about the problems with the Federal government&#8217;s web-based enrollment system supporting &#8220;healthcare exchanges&#8221; under &hellip; <a title=\"More ObamaCare Issues\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39831\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More ObamaCare Issues<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}