What has to be one of the most ridiculous, and quite bizarre, excuses yet made by any Democrat regarding the failure to get enough folks signed up for Obamacare, and also demonstrates the fact that they have now essentially run out of excuses, is this latest one to be put forth by none other than ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid. Because it was old ‘Dingy’ who said the fault of struggling to sign up on the Obamacare exchanges doesn’t lie with the faulty website, but instead with the people trying to sign up who simply aren’t "educated on how to use the Internet." He’s gotta be kidding, right? ‘Dingy’ doesn’t kid about Obamacare.
In attempting to explaining what it is that lies behind the latest in what has been a long list of many Obamacare delays, ‘Dingy Harry’ said that far too many people just didn’t know to use their computer properly and simply needed more time. Apparently, it had nothing whatsoever to do with all of the well-documented failings of the website that have continued to embarrass both the White House, and any number of Democrats currently facing re-election, for months now. We can plainly see that by claiming that people are too stupid to use their computers, Democrats have now officially run out of usable excuses.
‘Dingy’ said, "We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up who didn’t get through." He went on to say, "There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. It’s not — the example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, ‘I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.’ We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet." This is just all so idiotic.
It’s just the latest strange moment for the embattled ‘Dingy Harry’, who’s facing an increasingly uphill battle to maintain a majority of Democrats there in the Senate. ‘Dingy’ also recently came out and accused any American who would dare to tell their story of how Obamacare has had a harmful effect on them, as being essentially nothing but a liar. And he has constantly bashed the Koch Brothers as being "un-American" and "against everything that’s good for America." Unfortunately for old ‘Dingy’, he has a far higher negative rating with the public than do the Koch brothers.
Kinda makes you wonder what they’re going to be saying next. Of course there’s the fact that we also recently heard from that pathetic lying-sack-of-shit Kathleen Sebelius regarding the latest effort to allow more folks time to get signed up, which she said was not actually an extension of the 31 March deadline. Say what? Then what the Hell is it if it isn’t an extension? Call it whatever name you want, it’s still the allowing of more time to get folks signed up, which in my book is an extension. But did anyone really doubt that the final Obamacare enrollment deadline would end up slipping?
It’s not like Barry & Co. are setting some new precedent with their latest move, giving customers even more time to enroll after next Monday’s official deadline if they’re already in line. In reality, the administration is just continuing a long pattern of delays that while, claimed to demonstrate flexibility and help the law work better, serve to fuel a public perception that Obamacare deadlines never really mean anything. You know, kinda like them "red lines" that Barry is rather notorious for first drawing, then ignoring. This would be funny if it weren’t so catastrophic for so many millions of people.
This group already went through a similar exercise in December, cutting people some slack if they were stuck in cybertraffic by the deadline for Jan. 1 coverage. Then and now, administration officials argued that it’s only fair to give people extra time if they were held up by the volume of last-minute sign-ups. But the list of delays covers so much more. The administration has bent deadlines for the employer mandate (twice), put off the launch of the Spanish-language enrollment site and even delayed the enrollment season for 2015, pushing it off until after the November midterm elections.
Working backward, here’s a brief history of some of the most prominent Obamacare delays:
March 25: Final enrollment deadline extended. The March 31 deadline — the end of enrollment for 2014 — will be loosened for people with special sign-up circumstances.
March 14: High-risk pools extended. The special, temporary coverage for people with serious pre-existing conditions — which was supposed to last only until the health insurance exchanges were in place — was extended a third time for another month.
Feb. 10: Employer mandate delayed. This time, businesses with between 50 and 100 workers were given until 2016 to offer coverage, and the mandate will be phased in for employers with more than 100 workers.
Jan 14: High-risk pools extended. The high-risk insurance pools, which originally had been slated to close Jan. 1, had already been extended once.
Dec. 24: Enrollment deadline extended. In a message on HealthCare.gov, customers were told they could get help finishing their Jan. 1 applications if they were already in line on Dec. 24.
Dec. 12: Enrollment deadline extended. Customers on the federal enrollment website were given nearly two more weeks to sign up for coverage effective Jan. 1.
Nov. 27: Small Business Health Options Program (known as SHOP) delayed. Online enrollment for the federal health insurance exchanges for small businesses was delayed.
Nov. 21: Open enrollment delayed for 2015. The administration pushed back next year’s enrollment season by a month.
July 2: Employer mandate delayed. The administration declared that it wouldn’t enforce the fines in 2014 for businesses with more than 50 full-time workers who don’t offer health coverage. The fines were pushed back to 2015.
Nov. 15 2012: Exchange deadline delayed. The Department of Health and Human Services gave states an extra month to decide whether they would set up their own health insurance exchanges — a decision it announced just one day before the original deadline.
So while ‘Dingy Harry’ can see fit to blame the American people for being too stupid to know how to operate their computers, and Sebelius can, with her extension that really isn’t, claim all is working so smoothly, the truth of the matter is that what we have here, in Obamacare, is nothing more than a very shitty product that fulfills none of the many promises that were made. And add to that the fact that it has now been the direct cause of millions more Americans to have lost their insurance than the number of those who have now been able to gain affordable coverage for themselves, and it’s plain to see what a boondoggle this thing really is.
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