Like you, I am far more practical and centered than most probably assume. As a business owner I have absolutely no clue how they could have bungled the web site rollout. I mean, given all the controversy about the law itself over the past four years, if it were mine I would have made damn sure that it worked perfectly before Oct. 1st. 40 different contractors on the job and not a single one placed as the lead contractor.....recipe for disaster. That said, I have read the law and I believe that the meat and potatoes of it are sound. There are still other parts that, imo, we'll need to change as we go along. I too hope I am right....for all of our sakes. If not, I will join you in calling for it to be replaced. Naw, neither of us have our head in the sand bro. At least we know enough about what is going on to argue a little about it. The ones with their head in the sand don't have a f***ing clue so they can't say if they like it or not.
Check out Sean Hannity right now. He has some "Real people" going on in a minute who will testify to what I've been saying.
This one if from your link but one of MANY I've heard that should have my man NC concerned. Low & behold, he hasn't heard of these. And this is what I've been trying to beat into you lib's heads with this thread. NC, or any of you phuckin liberal government leach bastards, you still want to throw out the canned response, "It's sub par coverage?"
Reason number 1 why this roll-out has been a disaster: “They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business,” said David Cutler, a Harvard professor and health adviser to Obama’s 2008 campaign, who was not the individual who provided the memo to The Washington Post but confirmed he was the author. “It’s very hard to think of a situation where the people best at getting legislation passed are best at implementing it. They are a different set of skills.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/04/the-memo-that-could-have-saved-obamacare/
Estimated 129,000,000 people won't be able to keep their current plan. http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2...d-sundby-loses-great-health-insurance-plan-a/
Yeah, I hear you, Tiga, and I've seen these "witnesses" coming forward. The problem is that what they are telling you isn't the whole truth. I am not denying that there are genuinely some people whose premiums will increase: no one has been under that illusion from the outset; but several of these "witnesses" have recounted their original statements once it was pointed out the plans they did qualify for under the ACA that were never enumerated in the original letters they received. I believe you when you tell me you are more centrist than you sometimes come across; I am too. That said, I think you are also practical enough to know that the rising costs of health care were becoming a greater burden on those of us who try to do the right thing and carry insurance. Furthermore, it's no secret that some of the tactics employed by the insurers were questionable at best, like dropping people after their benefits ran out and they were sent home to die or denying coverage to folks just because they are sick. The problem was never guys like us, it was those who never carried health care yet when they got sick they haul ass to the emergency room and never pay the bill. Guess whose premiums kept going up because of this very scenario? Exactamundo! Ours. I read a stat today that 24% of citizens in Texas currently have no health insurance. You honestly think those people don't go to the doctor when they get sick? You honestly think they pay the bill when it comes in the mail? Of course not! My point is that we had to do something about rising health care costs, about the leeches on our health system and questionable ethics on the part of the insurance companies. The ACA is what we came up with first. This is America and we have the power to change things if we don't like them. If the ACA isn't up and running as expected by the middle of next summer then I'll join you in calling for it's replacement but for now I think I will let them damn thing work. Look, when the Republicans rolled our Medicare part D back in 2004 it was a cluster fuck also so I don't put too much merit this argument that it will never work because it didn't work on day 1.
