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The full scale of the ObamaCare launch disaster is revealed

Remember back in the old days, when we had an inquisitive media filled with “reporters” who would do whatever it took to get the real facts of a story, especially if they thought powerful officials might be lying to the American people?  We’ll probably get such an environment back, if a Republican becomes President in 2016.  But ever since Barack Obama was elected, the media has served more as a volunteer ignorance militia, blindly disseminating whatever talking points the Administration gives them with very little challenge.  When vital information is withheld from the American people, Obama’s palace-guard media shrugs and says, “Hey, what are you gonna do?”
Well, one thing you can do is file Freedom of Information Act requests, and if the Obama Administration illegally refuses to respond, you can file FOIA lawsuits.  Only independent watchdog groups do that sort of digging now.  The “mainstream media” stirs in its easy chairs, roused from fond nappy-time dreams of how much fun they had at the second Obama inaugural, and harrumphs in confusion as each new nugget of long-buried truth is excavated by these outsiders.  It’s nothing short of astonishing that none of the big FOIA bombshells are coming from our huge, well-staffed, highly funded media organizations.  And they’re not exactly eager to pump the headlines full of astonishing truth, even when someone else drops it into their laps.

Judicial Watch, which did investigative work the mainstream media willfully refused to do on the Benghazi and IRS scandals, just emerged from the Obama Temple of Doom with yet another long-lost treasure of hard information: a 106-page document from the Department of Health and Human Services, revealing the breathtaking scope of the ObamaCare launch disaster.  In accordance with standard Obama scandal protocols, all of this information was kept from the public until a few crucial news cycles had rolled past.


Let us note, as too much reporting on these latter-day revelations fails to do, that this HHS document was procured with a lawsuit, not a Freedom of Information Act “request.”  Judicial Watch made such a request in October 2013, but the Obama Administration illegally refused to comply, prompting the watchdog group to follow up with court action in late November.
The people who call themselves “reporters” will probably relegate this new document to Page A-26 and claim it’s all “old news.”  The important thing to remember is that they refused to report it, or even push hard for the information, back when it was piping-hot news, and might have caused public anger to grow incandescently hot.  Obama’s political team understands that every scandal grows less damaging over time, if you have a friendly media that doesn’t make a big deal about the outrageous stonewalling necessary to drag out damaging revelations.
One of the amazing facts in this HHS document was already revealed long after it would have provoked a firestorm of national outrage: only one ObamaCare enrollment was received on the first day of history’s most expensive website launch.  But the other details unearthed by Judicial Watch paint a portrait of staggering incompetence and mendacity:

• On October 1, there were 43,208 accounts created and 1 enrollment. (Page 49)

• As of October 31, 2013, there were 1,319,425 accounts created nationwide – but only 30,512 actual enrollments in Obamacare. (Page 19)

• On October 1, 2013, at the end of the first day (4:30), the Senior Advisor at Center forConsumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Brigid M. Russell, sent out an email to her staff with a subject line celebrating “2 enrollments!” The body copy of the email read: “We have our second official FFM enrollment! The first two Form 834s sent out are to: 1) CareSource in Ohio, 2) BCBS of North Carolina. (Page 90)

• Official figures contained in the HHS report provide conflicting figures as to the number of enrollments. FFM [Federally Facilitated Marketplace] statistics show 23,259 cumulative to-date applications submitted as of 10/2/13 and 286 completed plan selections. Earlier numbers show 356 enrollments created as of 7pm on 10/2/13 that were completed with Form 834s sent. (Pages 91-92)

• An October 2, 2013, email from HHS Special Assistant Marianne Bowen indicated serious problems with congressional enrollments: “The Congressional issue (68 attempts for Direct enrollment) was an issue stemming from incomplete applications being sent through (started, not finished, sent anyway) and the way the issuers are assigning unique numbers. Turns out there were only 4 complete Direct Enrollment applications that went through, the other 64 were not complete.” (Page 93) [The U.S. Congress has approximately 24,000 professional staffers.]

• On October 2, 2013, the Obamacare website had 70,000 page views but only 5,000 were unique visitors, and 48% of registrations failed. The large number of page views may have been the result of visitors repeatedly hitting the “refresh” button due to long waiting times. (Page 106)

It cannot be stressed enough that all of this information was kept from the American people, for no good reason.  ObamaCare isn’t some national-security project whose failure would jeopardize public safety, if it became known to America’s enemies.  Every one of these developments should have been forthrightly admitted to the public immediately.  There is no justification for the Obama Administration keeping us in the dark “for our own good,” to prevent angry voters from acting against the wishes of their benevolent masters in the next election.
Corporatist government-business projects like ObamaCare should be held to far higher standards of accountability and transparency than purely private-sector enterprises, because corporations are ultimately responsible to shareholders, survive only through sustainable business models, and have government regulators breathing down their necks.  (And as we saw from the GM recall debacle, when the government becomes senior partner in a corporation, those regulators grow notably less enthusiastic.)  There’s no question ObamaCare would be dead and gone if it were a private business; CEO Barack Obama would spend the rest of life in court, or jail, fending off lawsuits from defrauded customers.  A document such as the one Judicial Watch unearthed would become prized evidence at the messy ObamaCare Inc. bankruptcy hearings.
But instead, we get far less transparency and accountability when Big Government and Big Business get together to unleash their mutant progeny upon the population.  We get spokespeople and their willing media enablers lying about how everything is going fine, when it clearly isn’t.  The people who preside over unspeakable disasters are allowed to retire gracefully, with thanks for all their hard work.  Top officials cite their lack of awareness of critical problems as a defense against being held responsible for failure.
And even when the media knows that everything they’ve been instructed to relay to us about ObamaCare was a lie, they grant default credibility to the next set of fairy tales, such as the lingering mystery of just how many of the reported ObamaCare “enrollments” are bogus – a question Judicial Watch asks in their press release:

On April 17, 2014, President Obama announced that eight million people had signed up for health insurance on Affordable Healthcare Act exchanges. That figure, however, may be substantially over-inflated. According to testimony in May by the America’s Health Insurance Plans association before the House Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, “Because of the challenges that surfaced with the launch of the Exchanges in October 2013, some consumers were advised to create a new account and enroll again. As a result, insurers have many duplicate enrollments in their system for which they never received any payment.”
“Once again, Judicial Watch is able to get information through FOIA that no one else had gotten – the specifics about the unmitigated failure of the Obamacare healthcare.gov collapse,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama administration tried to cover this up, Congress failed to follow through, but we managed to get the truth about the $667 billion Obamacare website.  Imagine what would have happened to Obamacare if the American people knew only one person was able to enroll on its first day?  What other Obamacare failures is President Obama hiding?”

We’re forced to rely on industry analysts reading tea leaves to guess at the percentage of those 8 million claimed “enrollments” that turn out to be invalid due to non-payment, distorted data, or duplicate data entry – twenty percent?  Thirty?  Forty?  But meanwhile, for a few precious news cycles, the President got to tout an 8 million figure the media knows is wrong, and they let it pass without much in the way of challenge… never mind the flinty-eyed skepticism they should be displaying, coupled with shouted demands for the release of hard data.
ObamaCare is an enduring example of Big Government incompetence and deception, mirrored precisely in the currently exploding VA scandal, which gives Americans a very accurate forecast of what our ultimate, hellish single-payer socialized future will look like.  Your future under the combined domination of Big Government and Big Business will be a series of expensive frauds.  Truth will be treated like a radioactive isotope that must be kept buried until its political half-life has expired.  And if you grow angry when the facts are finally revealed, mainstream media “reporters” will be standing by to insult you for obsessing over old news.
Update: The expanding Serco scandal is another example of the mainstream media sleeping through bad news for ObamaCare.  Serco is a contractor that was caught by local media paying a huge staff of employees at an ObamaCare “processing center” to do nothing all day.  Another such office has been uncovered in Arkansas… by another Missouri news station.  Apparently none of our vaunted mainstream media “reporters” could be bothered to follow upon a story of outrageous taxpayer money wasted in the name of President Boyfriend’s “signature achievement,” so Missouri reporters went to Arkansas to continue the investigation.
Update: Have document requests been filed with the Obama Administration by the local reporters investigating the Serco scandal mentioned above?  Why, yes, they have.  And maybe one day, six months or a year from now, after a couple of lawsuits, we might finally get to see those documents.  But for right now, the usual stonewall is in effect, as the high and mighty mainstream press slumbers on.

OBAMACARE IS A PLANNED SOCIALIST TAKEOVER... WAKE UP... THEY ARE PLAYING US FOR FOOLS..SO ARE WE ??

  OUTRAGEOUS Obamacare Lies

IT ALL STARTED WITH THIS LIE.. REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.. TO DEFRAUD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INTO A SOCIALIST PROGRAM THAT WAS SET UP RIGHT FROM THE GET GO TO DESTROY OUR SYSTEM.

Here is the LIAR.. SELLING THE PRODUCT!!

About 50,000 people have signed up in the federal Obamacare exchanges and another 50,000 signed up in the state exchanges but 5 million have lost their health insurance so far. In January, people will start to get thrown off canceled employer-sponsored plans and that will continue each month.

The following are some of the Outrageous Obamacare lies you must know an we will update them as we go along. I’m certain it will change by day to day. This is an evolving scandal with the White House brain trust continually looking for ways to deceive and distract the public and with at least one more government hotshot, CMS honcho, Henry Chao, claiming he didn’t know a thing.

1. MANIPULATING THE NUMBERS
The numbers of Obamacare enrollees will include those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not paid, according to The Washington Post..
It’s called padding. They are padding the numbers.
The Wall Street Journal reported the enrollment numbers will come in at about 50,000 this Friday but with this padding, the numbers could be 70 times higher. WaPo gives one example of DC which has 5 enrollees but 321 sitting with a plan in their online basket. Oregon has no one enrolled but the government, in their deceit, will likely come up with numbers.
The 14 states running their own insurance marketplace have enrolled about 49,000 and many thousands more in Medicaid. We probably won’t get the Medicaid numbers because that won’t help the narrative.

2. MANIPULATING  WITH DISTRACTIONS
Forbes had an article yesterday about the new HHS regulations put out on Friday. [HHS is actually legislating with almost each rule and regulation]
Steep prices, fraud and canceled insurance policies aren’t enough for the Obama Administration. On Friday, HHS passed new regulations mandating health insurers cover mental and behavioral health to the same extent they cover physical health. We know that substance abusers, who will fit into this category, will not be charged higher premiums and that can be an endless cycle of expenses with few rewards.
Mental health is amorphous and unprovable. It is a playground for fraudsters and we will get to pay for that too. The mentally ill must have coverage, that’s not the question, the question is how this blanket, no-limits coverage will play out.
Putting this out now is another effort by the Obama Administration to distract from the mess that is Obamacare.
Obamacare has been driving up the cost of policies for many Americans by 50% to 100% and now with the new mental health rules, the coverage will be even more expensive. This will also cause millions more health insurance policies to be canceled because that many more do not cover mental health and substance abuse issues.
So, even while they claim they didn’t know millions would be thrown off their policies, they are working it out so millions more will be thrown off their policies.

3. LYING BY OMISSION
Fox News reports that ‘Henry Chao, the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of Information Services at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said in an interview with the House Oversight and Reform Committee Nov. 1 that he was never given a Sept. 3, 2013 memo that detailed six security problems, including two designated as “open high findings.”’
In other words, no one bothered to mention to him that the website was filled with security flaws. The information was released this past Monday. He said that CMS Chief Information Officer Tony Trenkle never gave him the memo and allowed him to give the go-ahead to CMS Director Marilyn Tavvener.
HE KNOWS NOTHING! A familiar refrain in this administration. What are we paying Mr. Chao for if he didn’t know anything?
Of course we don’t know how much of this is true but he was under oath. It seems Trenkle is the fall guy or the guilty party.
They will likely not tell us how many are healthy enrollees and how many are sick and elderly. Another lie by omission.

4. LYING BY INCOMPETENCE
The website is still giving out false Obamacare premium and subsidy information. The Hill reports that due to an Obamacare exchange ‘glitch’ in Washington State, 8,000 people were promised higher subsidies than they will actually receive. The 8,000 picked out plans they might not be able to afford but will have to go through the entire application process again to find something cheaper if they can.

Branco cartoon, navigator felons, via legal insurrection

5. LYING BY FRAUD
What you can’t do by lying, you can do with fraud. Project Veritas is finding navigators promoting fraud. That is to be expected since the federal government doesn’t even do background checks on them. Navigators can be felons as we know.




6. BEEFING UP NUMBERS WITH TAX DOLLARS
Another idea being kicked around within the insurance industry, in order to help out the government, is to have  ’HHS approve a method to estimate subsidies and give preliminary tax credits based on those estimates—with the accurate amount determined later, once the system works better.’ This is according to Forbes.
The insurance industry would expect to be compensated, however. So who do you think will pay for the added subsidies people are not entitled to? The taxpayer?
Henry Chao said, ’Let’s Just Make Sure It’s Not a Third-World Experience’.
Too late, it already is.

7. FALSE HOPES
The president and the CMS officials promised a healthy healthcare.gov by November 30th which is only believable to the non-computer savvy. They are now walking that back.  CMS announced last Friday,  “It’s a critical date, without question,” said one. “But don’t think of it as an unveiling date. The goal is to make significant improvements that day.”

8. HISTORY REWRITES
David Cutler, Harvard Economics Profession and one of the two architects of Obamacare, wrote a memo to Larry Summers in May 11, 2010 in which he said the government did not have the ability to carry out Mr. Obama’s vision for healthcare.
Larry Summers has since moved on to bigger and better things, shortly after that memo in fact.
Cutler, a supporter of Obamacare, wrote in the memo that “the early implementation efforts are far short of what it will take to implement reform successfully.” Cutler continued: “For health reform to be successful, the relevant people need a vision about health system transformation and the managerial ability to carry out that vision. The President has sketched out such a vision. However, I do not believe the relevant members of the Administration understand the President’s vision or have the capability to carry it out.”
The Washington Examiner posted the following excerpt from the memo:

Cutler laid out a set of problems: 1) poor leadership at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a key organization in creating Obamacare; 2) clueless management at the Department of Health and Human Services on the subject of setting up exchanges; 3) an ineffective effort to work with insurers in implementing reform; and 4) general incompetence. “The overall head of implementation inside HHS, Jeanne Lambrew, is known for her knowledge of Congress, her commitment to the poor, and her mistrust of insurance companies,” Cutler wrote. “She is not known for operational ability, knowledge of delivery systems, or facilitating widespread change.”

However, Cutler, during an interview with Megyn Kelly last evening, fell back on the administration talking points.
He believes that we will save money a couple years from now. Did Obama say we’d say money eventually, down the road?



Cutler said that they believed enrollees would be fleeing their current plans for the Obamacare plans. In a twist of words, he is saying what the administration is saying, It’s not that they were dropped, the plans were inferior and didn’t meet the government criteria, and the government expected people to be thrilled to jump over to the Obamacare exchanges. It’s merely a ‘transition.’
In other words, it’s not really the same as dropping people if they want to go. They knew they’d be dropped but they thought they’d be happy.




When asked if he thought his warnings went unheeded, he said it’s not what anyone wanted and he didn’t know what went on:


The chart above lists the Democratic Senators who cast the decisive vote for Obamcare. Remember their names.
In the end, the lies will continue every day. Obamacare was never about care or health, it was about more power for DC. Otherwise, they would not have moved ahead with a website that didn’t work and healthcare plans with exorbitant premiums. It’s about big government and control over the people in an area that is the most critical to us – our health.