{"id":42312,"date":"2014-04-05T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T10:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42312"},"modified":"2014-04-05T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:17:24","slug":"obamacare-in-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42312","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, numbers are out on how well ObamaCare did in one of the most liberal states in the Union &#8211; Maryland.\u00a0 It must have worked well there, right?<\/p>\n<p>Um, not exactly.\u00a0 The numbers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ain&#8217;t<\/span> pretty.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously reported that Maryland spent $125M on an ObamaCare exchange that didn&#8217;t work worth a damn.\u00a0 It was so bad, Maryland finally decided to pull the plug on it and use the BD Federal insurance exchange instead.<\/p>\n<p>Well, signup numbers are now out.\u00a0 In Maryland, 60,000 people signed up for ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the same period 73,000 Maryland residents also <em>lost<\/em> their existing health insurance due to ObamaCare&#8217;s rollout and its new requirements.\u00a0 That means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/melanie-hunter\/it-s-loss-md-73k-lose-insurance-60k-enroll-exchange#sthash.50kiDuOH.dpuf\"><em>ObamaCare<\/em> <em>resulted in 13,000 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fewer<\/span> Maryland residents having health insurance<\/em> <\/a>when was forced on the American public.<\/p>\n<p>That bears repeating:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if ObamaCare did not exist, 13,000 more people in Maryland would have health insurance today than they do under ObamaCare<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Help people get insurance?\u00a0 Sounds more to me like &#8220;helping people lose their existing health insurance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We really need to sh!tcan this idiocy.\u00a0 Pronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, numbers are out on how well ObamaCare did in one of the most liberal states &hellip; <a title=\"ObamaCare in Maryland\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42312\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ObamaCare in Maryland<\/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-42312","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\/42312","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=42312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}