{"id":55014,"date":"2014-09-05T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55014"},"modified":"2014-09-05T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:11:50","slug":"another-periodic-obamacare-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55014","title":{"rendered":"Another Periodic ObamaCare Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another look at what new and novel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">f-ups<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">instances of incredible incompetence<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">idiocy<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">monumental clusterf**ks <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 events are occurring under the \u201cObamaCare\u201d banner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/08\/31\/online-medical-transparency-site-showing-same-warning-signs-as-troubled\/\">A Second ObamaCare-related Site Also Has Massive Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/03\/business\/experts-bracing-for-new-set-of-challenges-in-year-2-of-health-care-law.html?ref=politics&amp;_r=2\">NY Times: Insurers Expect Greatly Higher Prices, Even More Problems This Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountingtoday.com\/news\/tax-season\/hr-block-ceo-foresees-problems-obamacare-tax-forms-71898-1.html\">H&amp;R Block CEO: Expect Problems With ObamaCare Tax Forms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopusa.com\/news\/2014\/09\/03\/problems-abound-with-obamacare-legal-residency-papers\/\">300,000 May Lose Coverage Due to Residency Documentation Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-California\/2014\/09\/05\/Covered-California-Hopes-to-Streamline-Obamacare-Auto-Renewal-but-Not-Too-Much\">California: Can We Set Up an \u201cAuto-Renewal\u201d Option? Um, Well, Not Really.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/health\/healthcare-exchange\/273226641.html\">Wanna fix a problem with your application? Tough. Healthcare.gov still doesn\u2019t work well enough to allow that.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and remember when I wrote that the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">incompetent cretins in charge<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0responsible Administration officials were flatly refusing to release any information about the \u201chealthcare.gov\u201d system security plan? Well, it\u00a0 looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54667\">we now might know the real reason why<\/a> the Administration was so reluctant to divulge any information.\u00a0 Apparently system security for Healthcare.gov was as competently managed as the website\u2019s implementation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2744241\/Foreigners-hacked-Obamacare-website-July-HHS-just-discovered-10-days-ago-claims-no-consumer-data-stolen.html\">Hacker breaches \u201chealthcare.gov\u201d insurance site <strong>8 July<\/strong>; intrusion discovered <strong><em>10 Days Ago<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The hackers didn\u2019t take any data. Instead, they . . . planted malware.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that\u2019s only a part of the story.\u00a0 Apparently it\u2019s been known since February that there was <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/the-belarusian-connection\/\">a good chance the site might be vulnerable<\/a>. It seems that some of the developers of the website worked for a firm known to have connections to the Belarussian government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good grief. We need to rip this absolute abomination of a law into small pieces &#8211; all roughly 1,000 pages of it; burn those pieces to ash; mix the resulting ash with quicklime and water; and dump that caustic slurry down an abandoned mine.\u00a0 Now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Author&#8217;s note:\u00a0 my apologies for the inadvertent duplication of text in the article as originally posted.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fixed now.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another look at what new and novel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 f-ups\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 instances of incredible incompetence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 idiocy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 monumental clusterf**ks \u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"Another Periodic ObamaCare Update\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55014\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Periodic ObamaCare Update<\/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":[213,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55014","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=55014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}