{"id":56489,"date":"2014-11-17T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56489"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:56:24","slug":"about-that-new-obamacare-open-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56489","title":{"rendered":"About That New ObamaCare &#8220;Open Season&#8221; . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s ObamaCare sign-up season again. By all accounts, things are going better than last year \u2013 though that wouldn\u2019t take much, given last year\u2019s fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>So, that means all the problems are fixed, and everything is just \u201chunky-dory\u201d, right? Um, well . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Out in Washington state &#8211; you know, the home of MicroSoft, and a high-tech area of extreme expertise &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/16\/washington-state-healthcare-exchange-shut-down-hours-after-opening\/\"><em>apparently not<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare.gov also apparently is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/11\/15\/open-enrollment-healthcaregov-affordable-care-act-site-performance\/19085637\/\"><em>its share of issues this time around<\/em><\/a>. Looks like returning users are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/16\/us\/health-insurance-marketplace-opens.html\"><em>having a hard time reactivating and logging into their accounts<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>But the \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <del>clueless but useful idiots and\/or intentionally mendacious propagandists<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ObamaCare advocates are still working at getting the word out &#8211; at <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20141116\/us--health_overhaul-enrollment_outreach-4f701aeec8.html\"><em>nail salons, pizzerias, mosques and bars<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I swear, you just couldn\u2019t make this sh!t up if you tried. No one would buy it as fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s ObamaCare sign-up season again. By all accounts, things are going better than last year &hellip; <a title=\"About That New ObamaCare &#8220;Open Season&#8221; . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56489\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About That New ObamaCare &#8220;Open Season&#8221; . . . .<\/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":[220,213,238,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56489","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=56489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}