Does anyone ever remember hearing even one piece of honest-to-goodness good news that can, in any way, be tied to Obamacare? This thing has been nothing but a unmitigated disaster from its very inception. And now, apparently, Barry’s administration, just today, has now dramatically cut expectations for 2015 Obamacare enrollment, saying that between 9 million and 9.9 million people will enroll in private health plans, compared with a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast of 13 million.
From the creation of this thing to the disastrous rollout to its continued implementation, this thing has only proceeded to get worse. And now, in a reports published by ‘Team Barry’, released just before the start of 2015 open enrollment on Saturday, we see that the official count of 2014 enrollment has been reduced to 7.1 million people as of Oct. 15, from 7.3 million in August. The change resulted in part from 112,000 people losing coverage because of unresolved application issues involving their citizenship or immigration status.
The CBO, which has been a leading enrollment forecaster for Obamacare up to now, predicted that the private insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," would reach 25 million paying customers by 2017. But I think that we can now safely assume, and with some degree of certainty, that that isn’t likely to happen. There has never been much truth to any of the numbers that we have continually heard being thrown around when it comes to what this train wreck was supposed to do.
But Monday's first-of-its-kind prediction by ‘Team Barry’ assumes that the marketplaces could take two years longer to fully mature, partly as a result of a slower than anticipated shift to Obamacare coverage by people who now obtain benefits from employers or through private plans sold outside the marketplaces. Officials also said that 120,000 U.S. households will also come to face higher coverage costs, including the potential loss of federal subsidies, because of unresolved 2014 application issues involving income levels.
This debacle provides the very best example yet of just how it is that the government should never be entrusted with the handling of something as important to every single American as how it is that they procure their healthcare. There are very few things that the government is capable of doing and doing well. It used to be able to be said that the military was the one thing that the government could do very well. But under the ‘leadership’ of Barry, even that has become a not much more than just a second rate operation.
And ya know, let’s not forget what was that true motivation behind the Democrats working so hard to breath life into this government created disaster in the first place. Because try as they might to convince us that their intentions were so honorable, in point of fact they were anything but. So we shouldn’t allow ourselves be fooled. There was but one motivating factor for the creation of this boondoggle, and it had nothing to do with concern for the uninsured. It was, and remains, all about how better to control the American people.
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