AOL CEO: 'Obamacare Is an Additional $7.1 Million Expense For Us'

Red, please. Obama hasn't cared about common ground with the Obamacare opposition for years. He announced his new 'Phone and Pen' policy weeks ago which is another way of telling Republicans in congress up yours. This is not about an impasse between opposition parties. There is no one to negotiate with. I hate the shit, but dragging the shit out is only going to make it worse. It's paralysis by analysis. The Ditherer in Chief is back.

No one who grows up in Louisiana and lives in New Orleans for 20 years can be politically naive. I believed Obama's trying to hide Obamacare until after the mid terms but I figured you and TNC would go apoplectic if I posted it. I get tired of the drama. If Obama can't make significant things happen between now and the elections it won't get any better afterwards. If Obama can't get his own troops behind him on a passed law that's been supported by the SCOTUS he's in a bad spot. He should act before things slip away from him anymore than they have.

I wasn't nitpicking I was giggling.

 

No shit, let me try that on something worthwhile . .

Victoria's Secret

Sexy intimate lingerie

Amazing natural breasts

To die for ass.

I have a little voice in my head saying it's insane to post this on this board. Another voice says 'Exactly!! It's perfect!!'

 

Has anyone followed up on the original story?

Tim Armstrong (the AOL CEO) went to the town hall meeting and told his employees that he was going to alter their retirement plan to offset the rising expenses in the health care plan that was brought on by two distressed babies:

“We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid $1 million each to make sure those babies were OK in general,” the father of three told AOL employees at a town hall meeting last week, where he also blamed Obamacare for forcing the company to make unwelcome changes to AOL’s retirement plan.

http://www.newsweek.com/aol-ceo-armstrongs-golden-parachute-vs-cost-distressed-babies-229173

That comment blew up in his face and made him look like an ass. He had to retract the initial plan to alter the retirement to save some face. What a freaking jerk for calling out an individual to the whole company as the reason their benefits are reduced instead of giving the real reason.

 

Did this work?

 

If the bill defined the implementation schedule, and did not grant the authority to the Executive branch to alter it it is a major problem which undermines our democracy. That is not exactly the case here. The bill set benchmark dates and the Executive branch has been ineffective in meeting them. The Treasury waited too long to define its processes and create the requisite forms, so the delay became administratively necessary.

It all reeks of piss poor project management and shows how little thought went into the transition.

 

Sadly, no.

 

Exactly. Spot-on with both of those points.

 

Try 28 delays so far. Sifting through the bullshyte is a full time job in itself.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2014/02/12/28-delays-and-counting-to-health-reform/

Gotta love this one...."The Obama administration announced that it is going to also delay, until 2015, associated reporting requirements relating to potential employer penalties. Under the law, insurers and certain other health coverage providers (primarily employers that self-insure) will be required to report the names of those receiving coverage, and certain large employers will be required to report on the health insurance coverage offered to their full-time employees. The information reporting requirements will now be effective for 2015 instead of 2014. "

Seriously? Reporting on individual status? I suppose the gubment needs until 2015 to hire enough idjuts to report on everyone.

And, "The federal government has historically made payments to hospitals to cover the cost of uninsured patients seeking free medical care in emergency rooms, as federal law mandates that hospitals must care for all patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Because the Affordable Care Act’s authors believed they’d forced all states to implement the Medicaid expansion, Obamacare vastly cut hospital payments, the Associated Press reports. As a result, hospitals are having to close. And here I thought it was all about providing access to everyone. Instead we continue to see people lose their health care access.