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Legalized Prostitutes At Nevada’s Bunny Ranch Back Obamacare

MOUND HOUSE, Nev. (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — President Barack Obama has at least one segment of America behind his health care law: the legalized prostitutes at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch.
The girls who work at the Bunny Ranch tell KRNV-TV that it was nearly impossible for them to get health insurance before because of their profession.
“Having this profession, we aren’t exactly offered group health insurance,” Taylor Lee said. “It’s hard because I do have a pre-existing condition so I really support Obamacare. I’m excited.”(continued)

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Healthcare website enters critical phase, unclear if fixes are enough (Husseincare 21.2)**SNIP**


In Pennsylvania, Ted Trevorrow described errors that he said show problems deep inside HealthCare.gov.

Trevorrow, who works for a nonprofit group called Resources for Human Development, tried to help a man on Saturday who has created two applications because of technical snafus - one by phone, and one online - and cannot access either of them.

"He ran into some sort of technical glitch, and now it will require the intervention of a programmer," Trevorrow said.

Another client hit an inexplicable wall in the subsidy eligibility process. "The system just stopped and wouldn't go any further," said Trevorrow. "It just plain doesn't work and it needs to be fixed."

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White House: Website won’t be fixed by December 1 (Democrats fear the Senate has been lost)
Hot Air ^ |

Old and busted: Healthcare.gov will be fully operational by November 30th. New hotness: Healthcare.gov will, er, work better than it did by December 1!
Brought to you by the same people who insisted that if you liked your insurance plan, you could keep it:
Obama administration officials said Monday that some visitors to HealthCare.gov will experience outages, slow response times or try-again-later messages in December.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) delivered the message in the latest attempt to downplay expectations for Nov. 30, the administration’s self-imposed deadline for fixing ObamaCare’s federal enrollment site.
CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille said errors that persist past this weekend would be “intermittent” and, in line with a promise made by the White House, would not affect the vast majority of the site’s users.
But Bataille acknowledged that some would still experience “periods of suboptimal performance” by the system due to either heavy traffic or technical issues that are still being addressed.
“The system will not work perfectly on Dec. 1, but it will work much better than it did in October,” Bataille said.
Speaking of suboptimal performance …
The comments came after HealthCare.gov experienced an unscheduled outage on Monday for one hour. The CMS had recently touted the site for not randomly crashing. Bataille said the problem was remedied quickly by the site’s tech team.
Let’s recall that the pledge last month was specifically that Healthcare.gov would be “fully functional” by December 1. That date was not an accident. In order to have coverage by January 1, enrollees have to complete their enrollment by mid-December, although the administration is trying to get insurers to wait until December 23rd rather than the 15th as the cutoff. If the web portal still can’t handle the enrollments properly and fully by that time — and the 834s to the insurers seem to still be a big problem in that regard:
Behind the scenes, when an individual selects a plan, the federal system transmits a file, known as an “834,” with all of the relevant information about that individual and his or her plan selection.
These files have been plagued by errors, from spouses and children being mixed up to enrollments being duplicated or inadvertently cancelled. According to HHS, they have “completed fixes for two-thirds of the high-priority bugs that our tech team working with issuers identified as being responsible for the issues with 834 transactions and other issuer priorities.”
But according to an insurance industry source, though the 834 problems are getting better, there is still a long way to go. Insurers still haven’t reached the point where they can feel confident that the data is reliable.
As a result, though they have been able to process some payments from individuals, they’ve only been able to do so on piecemeal basis in cases where they are fully confident in the data, often because it’s been verified by hand.
That’s another problem. If the front end starts working better, the deluge of last-minute enrollments to comply with the individual mandate will flood insurers with bad data, which will be impossible to fix by hand in that level of throughput. Let’s also not forget that the subsidy-payment system doesn’t exist yet, either. This announcement only relates to the consumer experience of Healthcare.gov, not the full functionality. Without the subsidy payments to the insurers, there’s still a large question as to whether those subsidy-qualifying enrollees will actually have coverage on January 1 if insurers don’t get the full premiums in hand by December 31st, a deadline which now looks impossible to meet.
Democrats pinned their hopes of competing in the 2014 midterms on the Obama administration’s ability to deliver on this pledge. Now they’re beginning to realize that they’ve hitched their wagons to a failing star:
For Democrats, the politics of the health care law are creating a death spiral of their own. For the White House to protect its signature initiative, it needs to maintain a Democratic Senate majority past 2015. But to do so, Majority Leader Harry Reid needs to insulate vulnerable battleground-state Democrats, who are all too eager to propose their own fixes to the law that may be politically satisfying, but could undermine the fundamentals of the law.
Race-by-race polling conducted over the last month has painted a grim picture of the difficult environment Senate Democrats are facing next year. In Louisiana, a new state survey showed Landrieu’s approval rating is now underwater; she tallied only 41 percent of the vote against her GOP opposition. In Arkansas, where advertising on the health care law began early, Sen. Mark Pryor’s approval sank to 33 percent, a drop of 18 points since last year. A new Quinnipiac survey showed Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, who looked like a lock for reelection last month, in a dead heat against little-known GOP opponents. Even a Democratic automated poll from Public Policy Polling showed Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina running neck-and-neck against Republican opposition, with her job disapproval spiking over the last two months. These are the types of numbers that wave elections are made of.
The big picture isn’t any better: The president’s approval rating, which historically correlates with his party’s midterm performance, has dipped below 40 percent in several national surveys. Democrats saw their nine-point lead on the generic ballot in the Quinnipiac survey evaporate in a month, and a CNN/ORC poll released today shows Republicans now holding a two-point lead.
“You want to prevent your race from being about Obamacare. If you enable your race to be about Obamacare, you’re making a mistake,” said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, who’s working for Landrieu. “You need to explain what you’re trying to fix, and you better be trying to fix something. If there’s nothing you want to fix, there’s something wrong with you. At this point, it’s hard to defend the benefits, but you can say we’re not going back to the evils of the old system.”
In the old system, 85% of Americans had health insurance, and 87% were satisfied with their health care. Good luck trying to run on the “evils” of that system, especially after getting an up-close-and-personal look at DemocratCare.

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NBC: Large Employers Cutting Benefits Due to Obamacare’s Looming ‘Cadillac Tax’

Large employers are prepping for 2018′s looming “Cadillac insurance” tax by reducing current benefits and passing costs onto policyholders, Lisa Myers of NBC reports:
For 75 million Americans who get their insurance through large companies, the Affordable Care Act is a mixed bag. Experts tell NBC News the new healthcare law is only slightly increasing premiums next year, but causing some companies with the most generous plans to reduce their employees’ benefits.
Aaron Baker, 36, his wife Billie and their two young children are covered under a generous health insurance plan offered by the private Midwestern university where he’s worked for 10 years. When they opened their benefits notice this year, they were pleased to see their $385 premium is only up by four dollars next year. However, they were shocked to discover that instead of covering the first dollar they spend with no deductible, the Baker’s plan now includes a $1,000 deductible and a $2,500 out of pocket maximum. They also will still have small co-pays for services.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSaXY2SpaU

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As someone who works in insurance....not necessarily health insurance... how in the hell is this helping anyone? Wasn't the whole point to make health insurance "Affordable" hence the name "Affordable health care act" All this is really doing is making health insurance more expensive and with less coverage for everyone while letting people with pre existing conditions have access to health care. Couldn't the government subsidize or even pay for people with pre existing condition for X amount of years and still require people to get health care through private insurance companies so prices would remain relatively the same and the government wasn't involved. The subsidy could be put in place for X years until the last person born today with a pre-existing condition is dead. Everyone born after this date, their family should have existing coverage so they can not be kicked out after a condition comes around. We are taking an idea most people don't want and going through with it in a way that even people who wanted it think is stupid. Impeach Obama and deport him and everyone else involved in this administration, we would have a better government if someone just selected a random guy on the street and said he was in charge of the county.

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NBC: Large Employers Cutting Benefits Due to Obamacare’s Looming ‘Cadillac Tax’

Large employers are prepping for 2018′s looming “Cadillac insurance” tax by reducing current benefits and passing costs onto policyholders, Lisa Myers of NBC reports:
For 75 million Americans who get their insurance through large companies, the Affordable Care Act is a mixed bag. Experts tell NBC News the new healthcare law is only slightly increasing premiums next year, but causing some companies with the most generous plans to reduce their employees’ benefits.
Aaron Baker, 36, his wife Billie and their two young children are covered under a generous health insurance plan offered by the private Midwestern university where he’s worked for 10 years. When they opened their benefits notice this year, they were pleased to see their $385 premium is only up by four dollars next year. However, they were shocked to discover that instead of covering the first dollar they spend with no deductible, the Baker’s plan now includes a $1,000 deductible and a $2,500 out of pocket maximum. They also will still have small co-pays for services.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSaXY2SpaU

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Press Release: Dating Website Offers to Fix Obamacare Website

SugarDaddyforMe.com is offering to fix Healthcare.gov for free.
WireService.ca Press Release - 11/20/2013 - "SugarDaddyForMe.com is offering to fix Healthcare.gov for free," says Gautam Sharma, the Founder. "We are the world's largest sugar daddy or millionaire dating website. Our site's team of world class programmers has also created and operates several other large dating websites, and combined they currently manage tens of millions of monthly visitors and have handled that massive traffic volume with more than 99.99% uptime and with complete security of member's date since 2005.

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U.S. general: Let's make Obama resign

A retired Army general is calling for the “forced resignations” of President Obama, other administration officials and the leadership of Congress for the direction they’re taking the nation, his list of grievances including the systematic political purge of hundreds of senior military officers in the U.S. military.
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely told WND he is calling for nationwide rallies and protests to demand the resignations and added that a peaceful “civil uprising is still not out of question.”
In his capacity as chairman of the organization Stand Up America, Vallely issued what he termed a “National Call to Action” to force the resignations of Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Vallely, formerly the deputy commanding general of Pacific Command, said the current crop of leaders must be forced to resign by the “demand resignation” process, which he explained requires massive grass-roots protests and social networking. As an example, he cited the public and media pressure that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon....

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The Obamacare Crisis

Health care as a necessity comes only after food, shelter and income security. The mismanagement of the website HealthCare.gov and the cancellation of millions of policies pushes an underlying question out into the open: is the federal government capable of managing the provision of a fundamental service through an extraordinarily complex system?
This system requires coordination of over 288 policy options (an average of eight insurers are competing for business in 36 states), each with three or more levels of coverage, while simultaneously calculating beneficiary income, tax credit eligibility, subsidy levels, deductibles, not to mention protecting applicant privacy, insuring web security, and managing a host of other data points.
A malfunction at any one of these junctures could prove fatal.
In enacting the Affordable Care Act, President Obama and his Democratic supporters in Congress took on the task of creating a set of information technologies that has to interconnect with the I.R.S.; the Departments of Labor, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security; the Social Security Administration; state governments; insurers; employers; hospitals; and practitioners in the private sector...

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As much as i know it has hurt others....i just love seeing this things fail. All those people with their Obama bob the builder attitude about everything the man said, are seeing just how wrong and mislead they were. Would the republican pesidential candidates have done much better? Definitely not. Every election is you making a choice whether you want a douche or a turd sandwich for dinner, but the "Affordable healthcare Act" Which made health more more expensive or more (un)affordable and it hasn't "acted" as in "worked" for quite some time now, definitely could have been avoided. Taking the American society and way of life and saying we are going to socialize healthcare would be like suggesting ideas for changes to baseball until it became football.

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Is the Affordable Care Act in serious jeopardy?

With an eye on the 2014 midterm elections, a growing number of Democrats are voicing concerns about the insurance cancellations and website problems that have plagued the debut of the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges - a phenomenon highlighted Friday when 39 House Democrats broke ranks to support a GOP-authored bill that the White House said would undermine a "central premise" of the healthcare law.
It was a remarkable show of disunity from Democrats, who have splintered every which way in reaction to the Obamacare's rocky debut. And it raises an uncomfortable question for congressional Democrats who voted overwhelmingly in 2010 to approve the Affordable Care Act without any Republicans in tow: Will they have the political fortitude to stick to their guns and fend off changes to the law, or will a vulnerable caucus begin to accept alterations to a bill they've steadfastly safeguarded for years?
Despite the anxiety among her troops, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives insisted Sunday she isn't fretting about the law's future.
"I don't think it's in trouble," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. "I think we just have to remain calm, get through the website getting fixed, clarify some misrepresentations about it."
"It's the law of the land," she added. "It's an important health, stability issue, security issue for the American people, and I believe that in a matter of months many more people will see that."
She dismissed the 39 Democratic votes for the GOP's proposal to prevent insurance cancellations by extending 2013 plans through 2014 as a "political" maneuver, noting that a similar number of Democrats joined Republicans on dozens of earlier votes to repeal or alter the law....

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Nancy Pelosi tries to spin her way out of her Obamacare broken promise

Pelosi tries desperately to spin her way out of her broken Obamacare promise, even saying stuff Democrats were saying two weeks before Obama finally came out and admitted it was a broken promise:

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The Titanic failure of Affordable Health Care as the Obamacare ship sinks

All of this scrambling by President Barack Obama and Congress to reinstate cancelled insurance policies is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
It may look better, but the ship is still going down. It is just a matter of when.
We are watching as rats — the Congressional Democrats — quickly swim away from the damage they have caused. The people in steerage — the individuals who lost their insurance policies — are drowning in the wreckage. The first class passengers — the well-off who can afford to pay higher premiums — are heading for the few available life boats.
There is nothing romantic about this Titanic; it is a real-life tragedy happening to Americans who can ill afford it.

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Insurers Angrily Attack Obama's Health Care 'fix' To Reinstate Canceled Policies

Health insurance companies are crying foul over new measures President Obama announced Thursday as a political tweak to his fast-disintegrating Affordable Care Act, making the fix potentially worse than the problem.
'This whole thing – it's a mess,' an insurance company official told MailOnline, speaking on background. 'With six weeks left before New Year's, I don't know how the White House expects us to fix what's already happened.'
Obama 'kind of threw us under the bus today,' one of the regulators told The New York Times.
'The president’s "administrative fix" is an attempt to create a lifeboat for ObamaCare to get his party through the 2014-midterm elections,' said South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan. 'The president’s actions appear to be unconstitutional.'
Obama's new plan, the insurance companies fret, won't magically fix things for the estimated 5 million people who are already affected.
And some in the industry believe that Obama is setting them up to be the fall guys if the latest flavor-of-the-month tweak to Obamacare sours.

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The Obama Administration

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So we have same sex marriages passing all over the union by the states. We have the liberalization of Marijauna in many states. And we have many more people getting into Obamacare in states that defied the federal government and ran their own exchanges. Why is this you ask? It's because federalism works. When I say federalism I am talking about the federalist papers, not the current federal/fascist government.

In a nation with 317 million people reaching from sea to sea, there are many differences in culture wealth politics and views. What is it that allows us to be united, is a common bond. That my friends is a good thing. But just because I like this snus and you hate that snus, Well we can agree to disagree. I mean I would never want to have to use your preferred snus all the time just like you would not mine.

You see real federalism is /should be welcomed by all. Federalism allows the states to be individuals and represent their people. If Colorado wants to be the first to enjoy recreational marijauna so be it. If Texas believes more guns the safer they are so be it. If Alaska don't give a F*ck so be it. Point being is that we are a huge and diverse nation that cannot really be controlled by one law.

Well Obamacare was really ill conceived. It Basically got the insurance companies together and said "hey how do we get everyone covered?" They said "Well you have to bring everyone in to the pool let us figure that out with ya" Now we have what we have now. It's a terrible outcome and the only ones that will win are the insurance companies. You see when someone can't afford their plan they will either be subsidized or go on the dole (by the government). Believe you me there are a lot of people out there who never realized they already could see a doctor for nearly nothing and it would be covered. Now they are the only ones on the "exchanges" getting on Medicaid. It's ridiculous. I've heard so much how our system was broken yet healthcare and pharmaceutical companies have always been huge earners. No one who didn't have the means to get to a doctor or hospital were refused. This thing just reeks of fascism. You can't try to overhaul a 6th of the economy like this. The only winners are going to be the insurance companies. And Obama supporters of course. No offense guys….