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ObamaCare Maryland: 73,000 Health Ins Policies Canceled, Only 60,000 Sign-Up for ObamaCare

Friday, April 4th, 2014

ObamaCare MarylandObamaCare Maryland Disaster –Image: Az Mike@Twitter

(CNS) While Obama took a grandiose victory lap this week ‘claiming’ that some 7 Million Americans signed up for ObamaCare, we’ve learned that the ObamaCare Maryland Health Connection website that had been plagued by enrollment delays, only 60,000 people enrolled in the ObamaCare state exchange–13,000 less than the number of persons whose health insurance policies were canceled due to the new federal health insurance mandates.

On the 29 March, the Weekly Standard reported that the Maryland ObamaCare exchange which cost American taxpayers $125.5 Million, is broken beyond repair and they will be replacing the website with software from Connecticut’s state exchange.

March Jobs Data Weaker Than Expected, Obama Vows Veto of House Bill to Restore 40 Hr Work Week

Friday, April 4th, 2014

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(RILA) In a letter sent to Congress on Wednesday, the ‘Retail Industry Leaders Assn” called on Congress to immediately pass bipartisan legislation “Save American Workers Act” (HR 2575) to restore the historic 40 hour work week that ObamaCare killed.

Flashback: Remember when then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that ObamaCare will create 4 Million—400,000 jobs almost immediately and death of 40 hour work week means freedom to follow your passion.

President Obama vowed to veto the legislation if it ever made it to his desk.

It should be of no surprise that March payroll data that was expected to increase 200,000+ jobs according to Zero Hedge was lower than economists anticipated.

Related: Real Unemployment Rate Points in Wrong Direction -NY Times

Work Sharing & Long Term Unemployment –AEI

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Assn: 15-20% Are Not Paying ObamaCare Premiums

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

ObamaCare Is Working...

(Natl Journal) Blue Cross & Blue Shield Assn says 15 to 20% of their new customers are not paying the first months health insurance premiums, which means they are not actually covered, despite Obama’s grandiose claims yesterday that the ACA is a huge success as some 7 Million have enrolled in ObamaCare.

This news should come as no surprise but confirms what theĀ NY Times reported in February, that 20% of those who have supposedly ‘enrolled’ in ObamaCare failed to pay their first months premium.

Yesterday I wrote here that if one were to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt that some 7 Million actually enrolled in ObamaCare, given that there are some 316+ Million Americans living in some 115.2 Million households, the ACA is hardly a huge success story as President Obama claimed on Wednesday.

ObamaCare was to insure the previously uninsured and not reinsure the 6.2+Million Americans who previously had health insurance but whose policies were canceled because they didn’t meet the federal govt minimum standards for coverage.

Given the news that some 20% (or 1.4 Million) of the 7 Million Americans which Obama claims enrolled in the ACA may not have actually even made their first month’s ObamaCare payment, the so called “success” of President Obama’s signature legislative achievement is dubious at best and most likely seriously in jeopardy of failure.

Former Nebraska Democrat Senator Bob Kerrey Calls Obama a Self Delusional Liar, Media Silent

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Bob Kerry

(NewsBusters) Imagine if a former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator had called a current president a delusional liar who programs are wasteful–the dinosaur media would be all over that story. Such a person would be interviewed on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC, the media buzz would be red hot for days and this topic analyzed over and over, extending into weeks.

There is such a person but because he is a Democrat saying these things about President Obama, the media is all but silent.

It likewise should be no surprise that Kerrey’s criticism’s of Obama appeared in the Daily Mail in Great Britain and not in the United States where the shunning has already begun.

Former Nebraska Sen Bob Kerrey said that Obama isn’t up to the job of bringing Liberals and Conservatives to the table–likewise Obama knew that he was lying when he promised the ACA would allow Americans to keep the health insurance plans they liked.

“He (Obama) had to know that he was misleading the audience,” Kerrey said quietly recalling the newly minted president’s countless promises as Congress and the public debated his signature health insurance overall. “On the other hand, he may have said it so many times,” Kerrey added, “that the spell-checker, the fact-checker–somebody who says ‘Excuse me Mr President but I hope you know this…’

The worst lie Democrats told about ObamaCare Kerrey reasoned, “is not, ‘if you want to keep your health care plan…’ the worst one is, everybody deserves high-quality, affordable health care.”

Another of Obama’s failings according to Kerrey, is an inflated sense of Americans appetite for programs to correct what the White House calls “income inequality” through new taxes and other income shifting initiatives. Obama’s reelection 17 months ago wasn’t a mandate to conduct class warfare–later calling Obama “self delusional.”

H/T: Lana Wong@Facebook

Using Twitter to Forecast New Applications for Jobless Benefits; First Time Unemployment Claims Spike 16,000 Last Week

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

What Twitter Knows About Jobless Claims

(WSJ) A significant number of people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits at least if you believe an index based off of Twitter.

Economists at the Univ of Michigan have developed a technique that scans billions of Tweets, looking for people Tweeting about job losses and then creates a prediction of the Labor Dept’s weekly report on initial filings–their prediction, 342,000 people filed new claims for jobless benefits last week.

Applications for first time unemployment benefits shot-up 16,000 last week bringing the total to 326,000 from the previous weeks ‘revised’ unemployment claims the U.S. Dept of Labor reported this morning.

On the 04 February, I wrote here an historically high number of people will be locked out of the labor force because of ObamaCare according to a study from the Congressional Budget Office, CNBC reported in February.

Giving Obama the Benefit of Doubt of 7 Million Enrollments Out of 115.2M Households, How is ObamaCare Such a Huge Success Story?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

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(WaPo) Today, President Obama claimed that the ACA met its goal of some 7 million sign-ups but since the White House can’t seem to tell the truth about Obama’s meeting last week with Pope Francis and has lied to Americans about raising taxes, why should one believe President Obama now when he touts dubious ACA enrollment numbers?

ObamaCare was to insure the previously uninsured, how many of the alleged 7 million sign-ups are newly insured than the formerly insured whose health insurance was canceled?

Should one wish however to give the Obama Administration the benefit of every doubt that there have actually been some 7 million ObamaCare enrollments, given that there are some 316+ million Americans in some 115.2+ million households in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau, how is ObamaCare such a huge success story?

Related: 5 Ways ObamaCare Is Ruining Lives –Breitbart

ObamaCare is Still Falling Short –Natl Review

ObamaCare Open Enrollment Ends Like It Started

Monday, March 31st, 2014

ObamaCare GlitichesNew Healthcare.gov Error Message on the Final Day of ObamaCare Open Enrollment –Image: Bret Baier@Twitter

Deadline Day: ObamaCare Glitches Take 2 –Politico

Thought Of The Day…

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

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H/T: Carolina Girl@Twitter

HHS Secy Kathleen Sebelius Admits Management Failure in Implementing ObamaCare

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

Katleen SebeliusHHS Secy Kathleen Sebelius in Charge of Implementing ObamaCare Doesn’t Know How Many Actually Paid Their 1st Mo’s Premium –Politico

(CBS News) On Thursday, HHS Secy visited Nashville to urge residents to sign-up for ObamaCare before the dubious 31 March deadline.

Sebelius acknowledged that ObamaCare is “a complicated law” and when asked by Breitbart News if there may be more delays in implementing the law she finally admitted, “I don’t have any idea how to answer that question.”

Related: New AP Poll–Only 26% Support ObamaCare -Washington Times

Thanks to ObamaCare Most Cancer Treatment Centers Off-Limits to Patients

Friday, March 28th, 2014

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(AP) Cancer patients relieved that their health insurance can no longer be canceled because of life-time caps are discovering that of the 23 cancer centers that are part of the Natl Comprehensive Cancer Network that only 4 of the centers are able to accept ObamaCare–less access to these cancer centers means that patients may not get the most advanced cancer treatments, including clinical trials and news drugs.

On the 03 November, the Wall Street Journal reported that California Stage-4 Cancer patient Edie Sundby, lost her health insurance coverage and access to her cancer doctors due to ObamaCare, despite the President Obama and many Democrats promise, ‘that if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, period.”

Now cancer patients are discovering that thanks to ObamaCare, most life-saving cancer treatment centers are off limits to them too.

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H/T: The Heritage Foundation