If ‘Covered California’ is so good, why have they spent wasted $86M for stupid ads and marketing (given they have a monopoly in the health insurance market–I digress) especially after forecasting a $78M deficit beginning next year?
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If Covered California Is So Good, Why Do They Continue To Waste Money on Stupid Ads After Forecasting a $78 Million Deficit Next Year?
Thursday, January 9th, 2014NJ Gov Chris Christie’s Nixonian Excuse…
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Bridgegate: RINO Gov Chris Christie –Image: Jonathan Jewel@Twitter
(The Blaze) If Gov Christie Learned About ‘Bridgegate’ Yesterday, Why Did he Lose a Lot of Sleep for Last 2 Nights?
Obama’s Watch: Poverty Rates Break 50 Year Record
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Obama’s Record: War on Poverty –Image: Right Change@Facebook
(Washington Times) Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 Million taxpayer funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the United States has only declined slightly and the poor have lost ground during Obama’s Watch.
While Obama often rails against ‘income inequality’ in America, his deeds and actions together with his families personal lifestyle, doesn’t match his political rhetoric.
As Americans continue to tighten their belts, ‘The Obama’s Family’ spent wasted $4 Million of taxpayers money on a lavish 17 day Hawaiian vacation which Michelle O, has stayed behind to celebrate her 50th Birthday at additional costs to the taxpayers and to the ire of Maui locals, all the while:
- About 50 Million Americans are living below the federal poverty line which the federal government defined in 2012 was an annual income of $23,492 for a family of four;
- The Youth Misery Index hit a record high of 95.1 during Obama’s Watch;
- Despite Obama’s pledge not to raise income taxes on those earning less than $250,000 on 01 January, new ObamaCare taxes began to be deducted from Americans paychecks;
- Food Stamp enrollments for an entire year hit a record high of 47,665,069 in 2013 according to the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, representing nearly 1 out of 7 people in the United States;
- Obama seeks an additional 13 week extension of emergency unemployment benefits to the long term unemployed that ended on the 28 December at a cost of about $6 Billion all the while President Obama’s personal ‘political action committee’ Organizing For Action claims that ‘we’ve seen 41 consecutive months of job growth since Obama took office with more than 7.3 Million new private sector jobs’ added to the economy together with growing opportunities for upward mobility.
If Obama is so confident that his economic policies are working so well, why is the economy so lousy and we need an additional ’emergency extension’ of unemployment benefits?
Related: Obama, The Fed & The Phony Economic Recovery
Obama: Extending Unemployment Benefits Creates Jobs, You Know
Obama Claims ‘No Serious Evidence’ ACA is Holding Back Economy
Michelle Obama, Fish and House Guests Smell After 3 Days
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Michelle O Hangs in Maui –Will Willitts@Twitter
(TMZ) First Lady Michelle O visit to Oprah Winfrey’s palatial estate, to celebrate her 50th birthday courtesy of the taxpayers has crippled the neighborhood around the 12 bedroom compound, stopping all traffic to local businesses which are all telling the same story–Michelle’s visit is making day-to-day life impossible.
The owner of nearby Goble Flower Farm told TMZ security checkpoints have been set up on the roads, blocking customers from shopping there.
Other business owners complain they can’t restock their shelves because road closures have screwed up their deliveries.
A worker at ‘Grandma’s Maui Coffee’ told TMZ employees are arriving VERY late to work.
Does Michelle O care or is she so isolated from her own elitist celebrity that she has forgotten one very important rule of etiquette, fish and house guests smell after three days.
Obama is Smashing the Hopes of America’s Youth
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
YMI Record High During Obama’s Watch –Young America’s Foundation
- Youth Unemployment 16.8%–one of the highest levels since WW II
- Average Graduating Student Debt Record Breaking $28,600
- National Debt is $17.38 Trillion and Presently $54,576 Per American
ObamaCare Smashing The Hopes of America’s Youth –Washington Times
Obama’s Wrecking Ball –Image: Young America Foundation@Facebook
Is This Still America? “Voluntary” Govt Checkpoints Spark Backlash
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
Nazi Check Point —Image: Before Its News
(USA Today) Checkpoints which the government “insists are voluntary” are creating a backlash because of the presence of uniformed Police Officers.
In an era of rampant distrust of the federal government and in the wake of the Obama Administration’s Natl Security Agency surveillance scandal in which the agency has collected data on hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans, DHS/Immigration & DUI checkpoints have come under intense criticism in several cities this year that some Police Dept’s won’t participate anymore.
Driver’s in the Ft Worth, Texas area were being offered $10 for cheek swabs and $50 for blood samples–these checkpoints spurred complaints in November, resulting Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead apologizing for his Officers participation in a Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey.
What assurance did any of the Ft Worth, Texas area motorists have that the DNA and blood samples that were collected are not being stored in some federal data bank?
On the 08 March, 2010 I wrote here Nazi Germany demanded ‘papers’ and identity cards for persons to travel, is this what we can expect in the United States?
It is if RINO Sen Lindsey Graham and NY Progressive/Democrat-Socialist Sen Chuckie Schumer would have anything to say about it.
When was the 4th Amendment repealed?
Related: (Video) Watch Top DHS Checkpoint Refusals
The NSA is Coming to Town –ACLU Video
Florida Cannot Drug Test People Simply Because They’re Poor –ACLU
Covered California Day 7: How Are Things Going Now? Still Not So Well Huh…
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
“@Covered CA: A New Low…Now I Can’t Pay For My Insurance In Time For Coverage This Month.” –Lia Holland@Twitter
“Anyone Else Tried To Use Covered California’s Online Assistance?”
Image: Thomas Dodson@Twitter
“Oh Snap! After a Good Half Hour Covered California Decided They Didn’t Want To Have Our Little Chat, After All.” –EdnaPontellier@FacebookWhat Others Are Saying…
“Honestly…I’m having such a hard time figuring out this Covered California stuff…I can never get a call back and have yet to be insured. What plans are you guys using? — Katie Torwalt@Facebook
Some Replies: Ellen Ward@Facebook “None of them because they are too expensive, a $5,000 deductible is outrageous.”
Katie Torwalt@Facebook replies: “Right now I am paying Dr visits out of pocket.”
Jesse Roberson@Facebook “Entirely out of pocket! That typically results in eating whatever you might find in your pocket…LOL.”
Ellen Ward@Facebook “Mine was going to be over $200 a month and watch out, not every Dr takes ObamaCare.”
Chelsea Petranek@Facebook “I’m confused about it all too. I’ve been going around in circles with them and with my old insurance (thats no longer existing as of Jan) for the last few months and I am still having a hard time with them.”
David McKay@Facebook “Mine for Kaiser is $1,100 With no ObamaCare site quotes for our family are $1,400…”
Some Comments to: Covered California@Facebook
John Edmondson from Ventura: “After waiting online for over an hour to have an online chat they send me to an email system which they would not let me send. I really hope someone reads this because I am beyond angry right now…”
Matt Conn “I paid my premium, I have not received any paperwork and anytime I try calling Blue Shield, I’m on hold for hours and I have NO idea what my plan is, my benefits or where I can go–why is this such a mess?”
Angelina Lopez from Camarillo: “Major joke! So many clients of ours are so frustrated with not being enrolled in the right plan. Price comes back different or they are automatically enrolled in Medi-Cal which most DO NOT want and not to mention, no one knew how or where to make their payment–not even CoveredCA.”
Terry Givens from Durham: “Dear Covered California: Your new page is useless if the health coverage carriers can’t handle all the calls coming in. Maybe if you are listening, Covered California could REALLY help some people out.”
Kevin Knauss from Granite Bay: “I have clients where the carrier doesn’t even have a record of the application but Covered California says they sent it. Covered California has failed the residents of California. We don’t need a web page of how to make a payment, we need Covered California to straighten out the mess they’ve created.”
Amy Belanger from Berkeley: “My account says that I’m enrolled with Anthem, I applied for Kaiser (or thought I did) What do I do to fix this?”
Adam Hirschfelder from San Francisco: “What is happening here, Covered California is shameful. There is a very serious problem here and your well meaning officials are actually aware of it. Tens of thousands of us followed your directions exactly as your website directed us to, We filled out our applications by the deadline on your site and then, expected to hear from the carrier we selected but thousands of us have NOT heard from our selected carrier…Many of us heard from you that we ‘had coverage’ but again, your well meaning officials know this means nothing if we haven’t heard from our selected carrier. Then when we try to reach our selected carrier, tens of thousands of us can’t get through to discuss the issue with them…”
Happy 69 Anniversary George H.W. & Barbara Bush
Monday, January 6th, 2014
Happy 69th Anniversary President & Mrs George H.W. Bush
Image: Conservative Women Rock@Facebook
Los Angeles is Warmest in the Nation Today, 90 Degrees Warmer Than Chicago, I Love L.A. –Image: KTTV FOX News Los Angeles@Facebook
Creeping Fascism: FBI Drops Law Enforcement as Primary Mission