A: Um, when people maybe die because of it?
CNS News, “‘You Call This a Glitch!?!’ – ‘Robocop’ or Healthcare.gov?”:
Many in the media insist on dismissing the problems with the Healthcare.gov website as mere “glitches.”
The term seems to trivialize the amount and severity of problems the Obamacare website is having. Software engineers have told CBS News the website is simply poorly designed.
“How do you tax people and force them to buy a product they don’t want at a website that doesn’t even work?,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) asked on Fox News on Oct. 10.
I’m know I’m dating myself, but the whole thing reminds me of “ED 209” from the 1987 movie “Robocop.”
ED 209 was a large, lethal – and flawed – law enforcement robot intended to ensure people comply with the law within a specific time frame (sometimes 20 seconds).
A demonstration of Ed’s talents (and failings) when he wasn’t really ready for deployment ended up causing quite a bit of damage.
After a fatality, Dick Jones, one of corporate executives responsible for ED’s development said, “I’m sure it’s only a glitch, a temporary setback.”
To which his boss, snaps: “You call this a glitch!?!”
Of course, as the progressives will likely point at, when they sneer their dismissal of such a “teabagger” comparison, the two aren’t precisely analogous: after all, ED 209 isn’t real — and all the people who died from its “glitch” were merely actors pretending to be shot up by a stop motion, privately-designed law enforcement killing machine.
— Whereas our fresh hell, masquerading in the guise of state-controlled compassion? Is quite real. Like, really, really, really real.
And therefor not the same at all. So. Suck it, teatards!
CBS Uncovers ‘Serious’, ‘Incredibly Misleading’ ObamaCare Website Price Quotes
Find Ark of covenant
Open Ark of Covenant
?????
Profit
“Ah good! All proceeds according to ze plan herr Jones! ”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fZe82ov6JKc/TE0E2u4cexI/AAAAAAAABTg/vuIhWYILqpg/s1600/face-melt.jpg
Yeah, no one dies until someone can’t get treatment because they don’t have any insurance.
Wow, I didn’t know having an insurance card was a magic way to cure stuff. How’s that work exactly, angry person?
Insurance=lifesaving medical treatment, apparently.
I have a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell.
Wow…my eyes are opened now!
In this here US or A-Holes, right now, you don’t get treated unless you have some of that there insurance. Dang!
Tell me, EffinPisshead: how wonderful it will be when bureaucrats decide who get’s treated, you putz.
You guys don’t watch enough tv. Having insurance = Magical card without debt limit. Not that we believe in debt limits anyway…
Magical thinking! What could go…. Unicorns!
I can’t be sure which side Pisst is on. I mean, the current system presented by the Regime isn’t spitting out insurance to anybody. Even if you’re one of the few who can successfully sign in and navigate through the site, it will garble your information before it sends it along to the actual insurance companies. So nobody’s getting insurance out of this thing any time soon.
So I have to assume that Pisst is pissed because Obama and his merry band of incompetents is putting millions of people’s lives at risk. And I can’t blame him one bit.
It is like The Producers now that they have successfully oversold the ACA, they can’t let the exchanges work otherwise they will have to actually provide healthcare to the people who sign up.
I get the bit that this is all by design, so that the lefties/statists/fascists can say “Gawrsh! Health care is so messed up that we need to implement single payer NOW!”
Here’s the bit I don’t get: After seeing how they effed this up, why the hell would anybody trust them to implement single payer?
(But then, I’m a bit dense anyway, because I still don’t understand why anybody who has ever had to deal with the IRS, USPO, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, DMV, etc., ad nauseam would ever trust them to get anything right.)
What’s Wrong With ‘Rooting For Failure’?
When it comes to Obamacare, it’s the best possible outcome
Psst is a little confused, I think.
Insurance does not equal Miraculous Cures. Those happen at Lourdes and other pilgrimage places.
Anyone and everyone is treated at each and every hospital in the USA. It’s the law.
Obamacare is not doling out healthcare to all. There will still be 30M uninsured when all is said and done. They are or are not the self-same uninsured the whole debacle was ginned up to cover originally.
So, in sum: 15% of the population was originally uninsured. 85% were insured.
Today: 85% are to be insured at a hugely higher cost that in the process nationalizes one sixth of our economy. 15% REMAIN uninsured.
Now, pisst, who should you be angry at? Hint: He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What the drive-by troll parroting OFA talking points hopes is that most people are stupid enough not to notice that even *if* one has no insurance or the insurance runs out, one can always chose to spend one’s own money (or go the charity route)
with nationalized medicine, that option is never there. The State decides exactly what you will/will not get and no private stuff allowed.
cruzing
Sen. Manchin (D-WV) to Introduce Bill to Delay Individual Mandate
cruzing
Two Sites Independently Suggest Obama Could Heroically Delay Individual Mandate
“Sen. Manchin (D-WV) to Introduce Bill to Delay Individual Mandate”
That’s two.
Cruz is rubbing his hands with glee.
“Yeah, no one dies until someone can’t get treatment because they don’t have any insurance.”
You’re talking about all the people whose policies have been canceled and can’t buy Zero Care?
After seeing how they effed this up, why the hell would anybody trust them to implement single payer?
“What, you can’t mean you’d go with those granny-killing, baby-raping Rethuglicans, can you? You aren’t a RACIST, are you?”
Plus
“ObamaCare is the greatest thing since the government cure for polio, so SUCKITBAGGERS!!!11!eleventy1!”
See also “Big Lie”, “Goebbels, et al.”
See, at no time in the history of civilization, prior to this recent bit of time when Republicans began denying people their God-given right to healing, have people ever gone without insurance.
Even before there was such a thing as insurance, people had it. Honest.
So: people without insurance are now fucked, in a way that they’ve never quite been fucked before.
That’s my interpretation of effinpsst’s droolings, anyway.
Drumwaster, my preference would be to tell Uncle Sugar to GTFO of the healthcare business entirely. Bugger the D and the R side of that equation.
Yeah, call me a racist. Or a RAAAAACIST. That one makes me laugh about as much as the guy in college who called me gay.
Sorry, didn’t mean to use the G-word. That was unkind, and inherently inaccurate.
I think I know the plan, no one can sign up, they all get fined, and the money can go to further implement the ACA thus saving taxpayer dollars. Brilliant!
Honest, I did try to sign up.
Exactly how hard did you try?
Or don’t qualify for Medicaid. Or some state program. And can’t find a Catholic hospital. Or an emergency room.
All of which is cured once they have their subsidized health insurance!
Well, except for the “finding a doctor” part. PROGRESS!
Didn’t Obama shut the government down and start tormenting Americans rather than allow that to happen?
Q: when is a glitch not a glitch?
A: When the immoral decision to vote to fund ClownDisasterCare is understood as an immoral decision, and not merely the temporizing maneuver of a bankrupt political party.
What if you can’t get a ride to the
DMV to get an IDdoctor to get treatment?HEALTHCARE IS RAYCISSSS!!!
oh my
Americans Losing Faith in Obamacare
“Didn’t Obama shut the government down and start tormenting Americans rather than allow that to happen?”
Why yes, yes, he did.
That was in at least one of the House proposals for sure, and I believe it was in several of them.
Health-industry consultant: “Healthcare.gov is in de facto shutdown”
Wait, what? As if Americans in a majority ever had “faith in ClownDisasterCare?” Please monkey, don’t mock us.
I know that Obama was bound and determined to drive Americans further and further from holding faith, but I never believed he’d take it so seriously as to erode faith even in his own Godlike powers.
“Healthcare.gov is in de facto shutdown”
Where’s hellomynameismud to point out how this is actually a victory and proves that everyone’s rates will be going down faster than the website?
Guess he’d better call (800) F1U-CKYO and find out deta… oh, wait, don’t they just tell people to go to the website?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahaha
Anonymous HHS official: “Obamacare mandate may be delayed”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obamacare-mandate-may-be-delayed-2013-10-23?link=MW_home_latest_news
Delaying Obamacare is something that we’d rather shut down the government than do, so: this must be fucking seriously problematic.
rats sinking O!boat
BREAKING: Every Democrat Running in 2014 Wants Obamacare Mandate Delayed!
drip drip drip
Pryor Changes His Tune on Delay of Individual Mandate
barackygeddon
Oh, good: Insurance cancellation notices are snowballing
That can’t be right, because Barry said (over and over and over again) that “if you like your policy, you can keep your policy”.
For reality to turn out diametrically opposed means that Obama is either a fool or a liar. Or both.
I wonder how hellomynameiswileecoyotesupergenius will explain reality away…
The link here is to HuffPo, that bed of right-wing whackadoodles who hate Obama so much
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/obama-ama-speech-full-tex_n_215699.html
The relevant quote for hellomynameisahthehellwithiticantrememberwhatmynameisnow:
“So let me begin by saying this: I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and they value their relationship with their doctor. And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
Liar or fool? YOU decide.
Gee, if only McConnel had shown some grit for another week, We could have gotten a delay AND a budget.
Probably too much to expect the GOP to extract some concessions now though, huh?
heh, what a show of SurrenderCaucus fail: they can’t even keep a long enough faith with themselves to retain the use of an idea [Delay ClownDisasterCare!], losing even a pretense to the origination of the idea to the Progressives within a fortnight. Hi-larious.
Pelosi planning on flying it all the way into the ground:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/23/pelosi-pushes-back-on-extending-health-care-enrollment/
Well, if you add ” intentionally cruel” to the description of the thing as a joke, then sure: *** Six voters in ten describe implementation of ObamaCare as “a joke,” and more voters than not say problems with the government’s health insurance website are so bad someone should be fired, according to a Fox News national poll. ***
But grabbing the controls away before crashing into the ground is “extremist” and “radical”.
Make them own it, good and hard.
But grabbing the controls away before crashing into the ground is “extremist” and “radical”.
The White Rose was annihilated, many by the guillotine, but they were never wrong.
Ted Cruz Won
A loathsome Bushian p.o.s who would argue that indeed The White Rose was wrong.
no not petey please
Does that mean moderation in the pursuit of justice is no vice then?
You know, Stacy McCain was right a while back when he said never to trust someone who uses the phrase [as Petey has done several times] ‘Herewith, a brief primer…’.
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/08/unspeakably-wretched.html
No Cruz is the wizard who had his apprentice blow him up to kill Vermithrax Pejorative. Manshin is more like the asshole king (who was running the dragon food lottery until his brave daughter arranged to have it pick her name) sticking a sword in the smouldering corpse of the drake and declaring himself Casiodorus Rex, the Dragon Slayer.
These careful and polite Republicans fancying themselves ace at chess and StrataGem, and Risk, with their board games and 12-sided dice, take a frame from a reel and analyze the whole film from it and predict its ending. The next day a new frame, the same analysis, the same ending. They are terrible at predicting. The links in this thread that I read are dith-pickable. Terribly slow on the uptake. Reading them was like being bogged down by the slowest in class, all ministrations slow to take hold.
[extremism by its nature is militant, a break with the kind of moderation that essential for a free society]
Bite me.
Wrong at the beginning, wrong in the middle, wrong at the end. Peter Werner, wrong through and through, wrong in premise, wrong in conclusion, wrong in boring me this way and teaching my tender impressionable mind not to follow links to things less interesting than what I am already reading, that is, your comments.
J. Christian Adams on Cruz. Talk about slow. Nothing I’ve read so far acknowledges new Cruz-types being spawned all over the place as we speak. None of the writers I seen so far bother to look down ticket. So many still in early stages they’re barely noticeable. The spinoff from Cruz’s success, yes, success, as viewed in Texas, not as viewed in Washington. What a surprise when these writers are suddenly made aware. There ought to be a Pauline Kael award.
Vermithrax Pejorative
Dude — you did not seriously just go there.
Obama care is is the accursed wyrm of thrace. I’m sure of it. And Cassiodorus Hussein Obama will feed our kids to it until his own legacy is on the line. Whoever takes it down will be counted as a villain and a heretic and then Obama will take the credit for geting rid of it if that action if proves to be popular.
When this is over the whole thing will have been Romney’s idea since the beginning. (Which it kind of was if you squint).
Well, if not Obama then some democrat.