Happy Monday folks,
Earlier this morning, ABC’s Devin Dwyer and Jonathan Karl wrote about how the “dysfunction” with the Obamacare website “has upended the entire Affordable Care Act enrollment process, including applications by paper and phone that officials have been pushing as more reliable alternatives.”
Apparently, the documents obtained by ABC show that Obama administration officials “decided reluctantly to encourage consumers to fill out paper applications to buy more time and tame mounting frustration with the website.”
Essentially, the Left advocated one version of a lousy product only because the other avenue to that product did not work. Talk about a lose-lose scenario for the American people.
While the enrollment process is not going well for the Administration, the insurance cancellations Obamacare has caused are kicking people off their healthcare with remarkable efficiency.
The AP reports that “At least 3.5 million Americans have been issued cancellations, but the exact number is unclear.” And those people are furious.
Arian Eunjung Cha and Lena H. Sun recently wrote about Americans “angrily complaining about ‘sticker shock,” including 58-year-old Deborah Perisco. At the prospect of “paying at least $5,000 more a year than she does now” for healthcare, Persico said, “That’s just not fair,” and “This is ridiculous.”
Ridiculous, indeed.
Obamacare’s failures aren’t just a result of minor “glitches” or “bumps,” as President Obama often says. They are endemic to a spend-happy, aloof liberal agenda that The Los Angeles Times calls a “top-level management failure.”
He can’t run government like he did his campaign, and on each of his many controversies, “Obama has claimed ignorance before the fact and outrage afterward, leaving even some Democrats to see him as asleep at the wheel.”
American families deserve more than policy constructed and conducted by those asleep at the wheel. Obamacare’s “train wreck” implementation is an insult to trains everywhere, and the rising costs of healthcare and the dropped coverage associated with the law are unfair to the millions of hardworking Americans that are negatively affected.
Seize the day.