D’oh… That media bias myth thing again.

We knew sooner or later someone in the media would pick up on this.  It appears Forbes is the first large media outlet to share what we have outlined for the past two weeks.  

The HHS website issues/flaws stem from the structural design to keep users from recognizing their cost. 

Forbes Magazine – A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.

HHS didn’t want users to see Obamacare’s true costs – “Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering,” report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. (more…)

Two months ago with the Government shutdown a mere possibility, and the Debt Ceiling still far away from media discussions, we said the Obamacare tax waiver exemption -now being granted to businesses and not granted to individuals- would be added to the Continuing Resolution (CR) bill exempting unions from first year compliance.

It is now about to happen.

WASHINGTON DC – Labor unions are poised to score the delay of an ObamaCare tax in the bipartisan budget deal emerging in the Senate.
The bargain under negotiation would make small adjustments to the healthcare law, including delaying the law’s reinsurance fee for one year. The three-year tax is meant to generate revenue that will stabilize premiums on the individual market as sick patients enter the risk pool. (more…)

The Democrats want to add removal of the “Sequester Cuts” into the budgetary maneuvers.  Essentially, last year the Dem’s made a strategic blunder;  thinking they had the Republicans backed into a corner with the following proposition:  ‘Either raise taxes *OR* watch horrible cuts to Defense spending”.  
What Dem’s didn’t realize at the time was the strength of the conservative pressure on the traditional GOP.   As a consequence the “Sequester” was not seen as unpalatable as Harry Reid thought, the common sense conservative electorate shrugged off the threat and said fine let the future military spending shrink – and retain tax rates. 
The outcome was Dem’s proclaiming the Sequester was the end of the world.  It didn’t end.  And so today….. 

(Baseline for discussion stems from Reuters Article Outline ) – Some U.S. senators said they were closing in on a deal Monday that would reopen the government and push back the deadline on the hard Debt Ceiling/Spending decisions for several months, though many hurdles remained as a Thursday 10/17 deadline drew near. (more…)

Ouch.   Just another of those unintended consequences from passing a bill before reading, and enacting before it’s ready.

HatTip dmoseylou – Here’s the summary:   A guy is actually able to navigate the HHS Obamacare website.   He completes his registration, enters in all the information, reviews his options to select coverage, sees the price and then declines to accept.
Essentially he almost enrolls but then chooses to do further research and find if additional private coverage not on the exchange might be available for him.
Should be no big deal right?
WRONG.
A few days pass and what does he get in the mail?   A bill from the IRS for $95 for not selecting a coverage plan.   Yes, that’s right – he got the first year penalty immediately assessed just for NOT enrolling.
D’oh,….. Apparently the system is set up to recognize such consumers as “uninsured” and assumes you will not get alternate coverage.  Ergo you are uninsured and now subject to the penalty…. so, pay you must !
The discussion and example is on the Fox News Business Website (video)

Every time we see the media lie and hide behind this talking point…:

‘Obamacare is a law passed by congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court’.

….we will highlight the falsehood and update with recent events.

This week NBC’s David Gregory used it in an interview of Senators’ Dick Durbin-(D) and Rob Portman-(R):

Let me just raise this issue about ObamaCare, because I want to come back to that. One of the issues is that for conservatives, this has been such a huge issue, even though the law’s been passed and upheld by the court, they still argue, “No, there’s a basis to really try to make it better, to replace it, to get rid of it.” – David Gregory on Meet The Press

FIRST WATCH THIS VIDEO:  [<— It has not been seen enough]

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— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) October 13, 2013

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Many websites are discussing, and many news articles have been written about, the Obamacare HHS website being filled with glitches.   Most, if not all, are written to point out the ineptitude of an administration who couldn’t get the construct of the sign-up website done right; and to poke fun of the incompetence.
However, THAT AIN’T US.

We are going to try this outline and stay out of the weeds……  The most techno-savvy, new age, Hopey Changey, iMac Obama empire; filled with Axelrod/Plouffe dynamic constructionists of web-based election campaigning; who know how to use micro-targeting of social media and on-line cyber marketing better than Google and Microsoft insiders – Don’t make such mistakes, unintentionally.
The cyber “glitches” the media find themselves puzzled by are not mistakes.   There is an intent and a purpose behind systemic flaws that stop people from recognizing their immediate costs when signing up to the National Healthcare Registry.
The next few crumbs in the bread trail to understanding surfaces today. (more…)

Before you watch the video you must remember the significance of its venue.

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately.
A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

…. “if you can keep it”

Now watch this video from a few days ago at Independence Hall:

UNBELIEVABLE !

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Sheldon Whitehouse is the infectious cellular organism who swims comfy amid the pus growing the boil on our Republic.

Hostages?… “HOSTAGES”? Where the heck was that media talking point when Harry Reid was keeping the entire Senate from going home over the 2009 Christmas Holiday Season, and kept all of the Senators sequestered/hostage so they could not hear from, listen to, or communicate with their constituents who were desperately trying to get their representative to STOP the Obamacare nonsense?

Where was the media telling the public the Senate was being held hostage?

Arrgh… Insufferable left-wing limo-liberals. A pox on all their houses !!