ACA (Obamacare) updates for 2014

Rick wrote:

Reverend Revelant wrote: Obamacare is a fraud on a national level, and it looks like we have a crook helping run our local version of the ACA, Colorado Cares.

A director with Colorado’s health-care exchange was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after it was discovered she has been accused of stealing from a nonprofit housing organization she oversaw in Montana.

Christa McClure, 51 is the director of partner engagement for Connect for Health Colorado, the state program that implements the Affordable Care Act in the state.

In her Colorado job, McClure does not have access to any of exchange’s finances, spokesman Ben Davis said. He said the charges against her are “very serious and we are taking this very seriously.”

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/201 ... um=twitter

This is such a mess.

Yep, government is like a giant petri dish that breeds and feeds corruption. In the private sector there's usually a camera over the till, but not so much in government.

And that camera is usually their so they can cover their ass. And come to think of it, lately, more times then none, that camera has been pointed in our direction.

LadyJazzer wrote:

"The latest Obamacare numbers are in, and they may disappoint the doomsayers.

Another 1.2 million people signed up for private health care through the new insurance exchanges in January, boosting total enrollment to 3.3 million—a 53% increase in one month. The current trend, as shown in the accompanying graph, looks less like a crashing train than a fleet of jets taking flight."

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Oh darn...

And while we are at it, let's just see how the figures on that graft actually play out when looking at the bigger picture.

ObamaCare Enrollment Slows To Crawl, State Data Show By
JED GRAHAM, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 02/10/2014 06:13 PM ET

With less than seven weeks of open enrollment to go, ObamaCare enrollment — and payments — have slowed to a near-crawl in some states.

Minnesota's exchange enrollment goal of 67,000 seemed within reach on Jan. 4, when signups stood at 25,860.

But after surging by more than 4,000 per week in the prior five weeks, signups collapsed back to November's pace of less than 700 per week.

As of Feb. 1, Nevada had just 14,999 paid enrollees — vs. the state's March 31 goal of 115,000.

Washington state, meanwhile, was slightly more than halfway to its goal of 340,000 signups — but only 88,071 had paid as of Feb. 1.

The January data available from a handful of states raise new doubts about whether ObamaCare's downgraded first-year prospects are still too optimistic.

...

Some policy analysts expect the Obama administration to suspend the individual mandate in 2014 for everyone, once the March 31 deadline is passed.

[read the whole article at...]
http://news.investors.com/politics-obam ... argets.htm

This is what real statistics look like versus low-information propaganda release through Obama's public relations firm MSNBC.

And while we are at it... here's the rest of the story about Lady Jazzer's chart above...

An internal HHS memo, from September 2013, outlines monthly enrollment targets for the ACA’s first open enrollment period.[2] While the projection was never confirmed as official by HHS, it represents a possible path to the administration’s goal. In the month of January, 1.1 million Americans enrolled in the health insurance exchanges, exceeding for first time the monthly enrollment predicted in the HHS memo. However, the total enrollment of 3.3 million, over the first four months of implementation, is only 75 percent of the 4.4 million total enrollee goal set by HHS.

Using enrollment in Medicare Part D stand-alone drug plans when the program began in 2006, we can better account for spikes and lulls. Part D had a similar timeline: enrollment began in November of 2005, with a peak in sign-ups before the New Year and another surge before open enrollment closed in the spring.[3] While the monthly enrollment exceeded that assumed by the Medicare Part D trajectory, a total of 4.9 million people would need to be signed up after the first four months of the program in order to meet the administration’s goal of 7 million total enrollees, still nearly 50 percent greater than actual enrollment to date.

Assuming a linear enrollment trend, 4.8 million people would need to be signed up by the end of January—roughly 45 percent more than the actual enrollment reported by HHS—in order to meet the targeted 7 million.

If this trend continues and the exchanges meet the administrations total enrollment goal, young adult enrollment will be short by roughly 1 million.[4]

http://americanactionforum.org/research ... -reportJan

Lady Jazzer gets her "story" from a low-information source like MSNBC, and then she reports it here, but she fails to give you the truthful big picture.

That's what happens when you go through life with rose colored glasses.

Reverend Revelant wrote: And while we are at it, let's just see how the figures on that graft actually play out when looking at the bigger picture.

Freudian slip?

New story: Accenture, brought in to fix the website after the last company was "not renewed", has problems of their own according to the USPS. Not like they were a good choice to start with. Accenture, used to be named Anderson Consulting. They changed the name after AC got a bad name in the industry for not being above board.

Attention please.

This is Captain Obama of the RMS Titanic.

If you missed the lifeboats, do not worry. By my decree, you may feel free to loot the rooms of those who abandoned us. Also, for a limited time only, we are offering free swimming lessons on the Promenade Deck.

That is all.

Anyone can make silk purses from sows ears. LOL

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/68563/large/blameACA.png?1392067263

BlazerBob wrote: Anyone can make silk purses from sows ears. LOL

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/68563/large/blameACA.png?1392067263

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... vis-hanson


"The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm gave us the word “Orwellian.” That adjective reflects a vast government’s efforts not just to deceive and control the people, but also to do so by reinventing the meaning of ordinary words while rewriting the past itself.

America, of all places, is becoming Orwellian. The president repeatedly reminds the American people that under his leadership, the U.S. has produced a record level of new oil and natural gas. But didn’t Obama radically curtail leases for just such new energy production on federal lands? Have the edicts on the barn wall of Animal Farm been changed again, with the production of new oil and gas suddenly going from bad to good?

Does anyone remember that the Affordable Care Act was sold on the premise that it would guarantee retention of existing health plans and doctors, create 4 million new jobs, and save families $2,500 a year in premiums, all while extending expanded coverage to more people at a lower cost?
Only in Orwell’s world of doublespeak could raising taxes, while the costs of millions of health plans soars, be called “affordable.” Is losing your existing plan and doctor a way of retaining them?

The Congressional Budget Office recently warned that Obamacare would “keep hours worked and potential output during the next 10 years lower than they would be otherwise.” That nonpartisan verdict should be bad news for workers.

Not in our brave new world. The Obama administration says it is pleased that workers will now be freed from “job lock.” What is job lock — a made-up Newspeak word right out of 1984? "...

BlazerBob wrote: Anyone can make silk purses from sows ears.

And anyone can try to spin FACTS about people having the freedom to work where/when they choose without the ball-and-chain of locked-in health care around their necks.

Drives the Right nuts that people might have the choice to work how they wish. It upsets the work-projections of WallyWorld.

I'm curious...Where did the Grand-ol-Teabagger-Party find enough 6th-graders to explain what the CBO Report ACTUALLY said instead of what they thought it meant?

LadyJazzer wrote:

BlazerBob wrote: Anyone can make silk purses from sows ears.

And anyone can try to spin FACTS about people having the freedom to work where/when they choose without the ball-and-chain of locked-in health care around their necks.

Drives the Right nuts that people might have the choice to work how they wish. It upsets the work-projections of WallyWorld.

I'm curious...Where did the Grand-ol-Teabagger-Party find enough 6th-graders to explain what the CBO Report ACTUALLY said instead of what they thought it meant?

If the CBO report was so great, why won't we hear the Obama administration using it in their ACA propaganda campaign? (or any other Dem running for office)

#jazzfail