So how is ObamaCare doing these days? You barely ever hear a thing about it from our mainstream media — understandable given that a few NFL football players being disgustingly violent to their family members, is much more important than whether or not our health care system is working.
Investors Business Daily had an editorial about this just yesterday, which I think…actually, I hope….is of interest to you. Here are a few key excerpts:
Health Reform: It seems the administration had been exaggerating the number of people enrolled in ObamaCare to the tune of about 700,000. We\’re shocked! Shocked!
At a hearing Thursday, Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, finally confessed that 7.3 million were enrolled in ObamaCare plans as of mid-August.
In other words, the administration had been inflating the “enrollment” number nearly 10% by counting anyone who had completed the application process, not those who paid their premiums.
As many as 115,000 could lose their coverage this month because they haven\’t validated their citizenship or legal status. Another 360,000 or so could lose their ObamaCare subsidies because of discrepancies over income, which will likely drive many of them to drop their now overpriced health plans.
And these are just people enrolled through the HealthCare.gov site. California reported in late August that 100,000 of those who enrolled through its state-run exchange were at risk of losing their coverage over citizenship issues.
“To say this fall\’s 2015 ObamaCare open enrollment has the potential to be problematic is an understatement,” says health analyst Bob Laszewski. He notes that millions will have to re-enroll while presumably millions more are trying to sign up for the first time.
Even Kevin Counihan, who headed Connecticut\’s exchange and now runs the HealthCare.gov site, is less sanguine than his boss. “Part of me thinks that this year is going to make last year look like the good old days,” he told the New York Times.
Then there\’s a new Government Accountability Office report. It found that, despite repeated assurances, the HealthCare.gov site is still seriously vulnerable to hackers. As a result, GAO says, “increased and unnecessary risks remain of unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of the information collected and maintained by Healthcare.gov and related systems.”
But no matter. As President Obama says, “this thing is working.”
The public does not support ObamaCare, and – other than at the very beginning, five years ago, until more was known about it – never has.
Doubt me? Look at the most recent data compiled by realclearpolitics.com, then click on the “All Public Approval” link at the bottom, which will take you back to 2009. See for yourself:
Public Approval of Health Care Law
Polling Data
Poll Date Sample For/Favor Against/Oppose Spread RCP Average 9/2 – 9/15 — 41.0 51.4 Against/Oppose +10.4 CBS News/NY Times 9/12 – 9/15 1009 A 41 51 Against/Oppose +10 Rasmussen Reports* 9/13 – 9/14 1000 LV 43 53 Against/Oppose +10 ABC News/Wash Post 9/4 – 9/7 RV 43 53 Against/Oppose +10 NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 9/3 – 9/7 1000 RV 34 48 Against/Oppose +14 Pew Research 9/2 – 9/9 2002 A 44 52 Against/Oppose +8
If this is true, you might ask, then why isn\’t ObamaCare a key issue – maybe the key issue – of the midterm election campaign?
That is a good question, but one that has a terrible answer: the only reason ObamaCare is not a front-and-center issue in the midterm election campaign is that there are so many other failures of this woeful administration that, as important as it is, national health care is consigned to a back burner.
Illustratively, when you have radical islamist groups – offshoots of al-Qaeda which have been allowed to grow as strong and well-funded as they are while the President of the United States spends years doing nothing about them other than lying to us about their strength – now threatening to hit us domestically, and you have Democrats in congress helping them along (this is not a joke or an exaggeration – read the next blog and find out how), it moves to the front and supersedes everything else.
I\’ll stop here, because a) my point is made, and b) I want to explain what I just said about congressional Democrats making it easier for radical islam to attack us.
Please read the next blog.
