{"id":41684,"date":"2014-04-01T06:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T10:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41684"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:51:37","slug":"truth-in-advertising-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41684","title":{"rendered":"Truth in Advertising, Maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Six out of ten people without insurance can get insurance for $100 a day<\/span> or less.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, that’s not<\/em> an April Fool’s Day joke.\u00a0 That is an actual statement by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney<\/a> about ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

Um, Mr. Carney . . . I don’t exactly think paying $36,500 a year (365 x $100)<\/em> for health insurance is going to fly.\u00a0 And what do those 4 of 10 who can’t<\/em><\/span> get their ObamaCare “for $100 a day or less” end up paying?<\/p>\n

In truth, Carney misspoke – he was, um,\u00a0\u00a0 lying<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dissembling<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0 BS-ing us<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0 “presenting the theory” that 60% of applicants for ObamaCare can get adequate coverage for $100 a month, but flubbed his\u00a0 lie<\/del>\u00a0 line.\u00a0 However, the truth isn’t particularly good news.\u00a0 Per the Cleveland Clinic’s CEO, 75% of those who’ve signed up for ObamaCare have higher premiums after signing up than they did before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention that it looks like about 80% of ObamaCare signups qualify for a subsidy<\/a>?\u00a0 So that means that, even with a Federal subsidy, most people are still paying more for their health insurance under ObamaCare than they did previously.<\/p>\n

Further:\u00a0 it turns out that only about 10% of those who’ve signed up for ObamaCare were previously without insurance<\/a>.\u00a0 Hey, I thought the whole idea was to cover those millions people who previously didn’t have<\/em> health insurance – not make it more expensive for everyone else.\u00a0 I guess I was wrong.<\/p>\n

And for good measure, the troubled Federal ObamaCare sign-up site crashed twice yesterday<\/a> – which was also this year’s sign-up deadline.\u00a0 But that’s really no surprise.\u00a0 Hell, even deep-Blue Maryland has thrown in the towel on their $125M ObamaCare sign-up site fiasco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m also shocked, shocked to see that there’s seemingly a bit of, um, “political chicanery” going on regarding ObamaCare signups.\u00a0 A couple in California recently got a voter registration card from Covered California when they signed up.\u00a0 That voter registration card was pre-marked to register them as members of the Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best comment on ObamaCare I’ve seen to date is the title of this CNBC editorial article, which says it all:\u00a0 Obamacare’s problem: You can’t fix stupid<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually, that title is wrong.\u00a0 We can<\/span> fix this particular bit of idiocy.<\/p>\n

Congress can repeal it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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