ObamaCare Lives, Obama, Republicans Win, Public, Democrats Loses

In a disgraceful ruling by the Supreme Court, the Supremes upheld ObamaCare with a 6-3 majority.
Obama wins because this is his law and is responsible.
The Republicans win because they will use this ruling against Democrats in the 2016 and will probably will win the presidency and expand their majorities in the Congress.
The Democrats will lose because they will continue to lose seats in Congress and maybe in the State houses as well.
And of course, the public will continue to lose on this issue.
The good points on ObamaCare:
1. People can get insurance even if they have pre-existing conditions.
2. There are no life time limits on the amount of health insurance.
3. Children can be included in their family's insurance to age 26, I believe.
Those are the only good things about ObamaCare.
Now, the bad points:
1.  People who were working full time jobs now usually work part time, less than 30 hours a week.
2. Insurance premiums have increased significantly because of ObamaCare.
3. More people are now uninsured, about 30,000,000 or roughly 10% of the United State's citizens have no insurance.
4. Many people have lost their health insurance .
5.  Many people have lost their long time doctors because of ObamaCare.
6.  Wait times in ER rooms has significantly increased due to ObamaCare, even though Democrats promised a shorter wait time.
7. Subsidies are going to help bankrupt the country.
8. You still cannot buy health insurance plans across state lines.
There are many more ObamaCare disasters to list but the good points of ObamaCare help very few people, compared to the many more millions who have been hurt by ObamaCare.
The Democrats own the ObamaCare and they will have to defend it in 2016.
Good luck with that.

More ObamaCare Disaster

Taken from a memo from the school district I teach at. (Names and district  redacted)

• he biggest add on is for medical insurance. We received rates from ASBAIT and we have a 14.7% increase in our rates because of rising insurance costs and our bad claim ratios. Over the last 12 month period our claim ratio was 119%. The last 6 months our ratio has been 109%.  So our ratio is getting better, but insurance companies like to see it at 100% or less. It would have been over a 25% increase if they had set us off to the side instead of including us in a large pool with others. Segal sent out an RFP to get quotes for us. There was only one company interested and it was much higher than the 14.7%. Our insurance rate increase was going to be over $800,000 just by itself. On top of that we have the Affordable Care Act or also known as Obama Care. Currently to be a full time employee offered insurance with **** you had to work 35 hours per week. Now that drops down to 30 hours per week.

**** stated we had to rough estimate how many employees that would be. We have guest teachers that are used for full time and some classified employees. We do not have a large pool of classified employees that are not full time. This will be the preschool and kindergarten assistant employees who are 30 hours a week. The coaching and event working all has to be tracked and an hourly equivalent has to be figured out. We will have a tracking or measurement period. If these employees work at least 30 hours per week we have to offer them insurance.

**** stated the tracking we have to do is incredible with all the information and processes. The first year you have to make sure you have offered insurance to 70% of staff eligible and the next year it goes up to 95%.  If we missed someone and did not meet the percentage requirement we have to pay a fine of $3,000 for every person. If we met the percentage and miss someone then we have to pay for that one employee. Two categories to be fined for are accountability and affordability. We had to add $200,000 to the budget for the Affordable Care Act. That would be our worst case scenario if everyone takes the insurance.

So, in school districts, other government agencies and private business are all hurting because of ObamaCare and the numbers have shown that ObamaCare has been a complete bust.

Ginsberg Needs To Recuse Herself On ObamaCare Case

Ginsberg needs to recuse her self.
From Fox News:
A looming Supreme Court case reviewing a key component of theAffordable Care Act is raising questions about what would happen if the Obama administration loses.
On March 4, the Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether the IRS illegally extended subsidies to millions of Americans in order to underwrite the cost of their health insurance policies under ObamaCare....
In an interview earlier this week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg summed up her thoughts on Congress’ ability to step in where laws need to be updated or fixed.
"The current Congress is not equipped really to do anything," she said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/17/if-administration-loses-looming-supreme-court-case-on-obamacare-what-next/?intcmp=latestnews
It appears Ginsberg has already decided that she will vote to say the subsidies by the Federal government is just peachy fine because, after all Congress can't handle the job.
Well, it is not her place to decide whether Congress will "fix" the problem as she likes.  Her jobs is to decide whether the law is unconstitutional or not.
And since Ginsberg has already decided how she will rule and the reason why before the arguments take place, she needs to recuse herself from the hearing and if she does not, then she needs to be impeached as being totally incompetent to do her job.

ObamaCare Disaster: Part 2854675

From the Chicago Tribune: Cook County saw a price jump of 12 percent for the cheapest Obamacare insurance plans available in 2015.
 But a handful of counties, including Lake and Kane, had even larger increases from 2014 for the same plans offered under the Affordable Care Act.
The federal government released detailed plan-by-plan data for 2015 on Friday. People will be able to sign up for coverage next year, starting Saturday. The 2015 open-enrollment period will last until Feb. 15.
Last week, the Illinois Department of Insurance issued a report saying that overall, premiums for the medium-priced silver plans would see an average premium increase of just 2.6 percent across the state. Most Americans signed up for silver plans last year.
Health insurance plans offered through the marketplace are categorized as bronze (lowest cost), silver, gold or platinum (highest cost). All plans are required to carry what’s considered “essential health benefits,” such as maternity benefits and prescription drugs....
Yet, depending on the county, Chicago-area consumers wanting to get a “bronze plan” for an individual will pay 11 to 15 percent more than the 2014 plans — one of the few exceptions to prices either decreasing or increasing modestly.
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/some-plans-see-steep-hikes-obamacare-enrollment-starts/fri-11142014-157pm
Hmm, wasn't ObamaCare supposed to save money instead of increasing it?
Is it any wonder why the democrats got their butts kicked?
And this is the tip of the iceberg.
And Obama and his ilk knew about the high price increases, why else would they announce these price increases after the elections instead of before the elections?

I Thought ObamaCare Is Supposed To Lower Costs, Premiums

ObamaCare, the gift that keeps on giving to the gOP.
From Fox News: ObamaCare rate increases are coming to some key battleground states, fueling Republican attacks ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
“It looks like we're going to have double digit premium increases in places like Alaska, and Iowa and Louisiana, said health economist John Goodman. “Where we've got very close races for Senate, and Republican candidates are making a big deal over this."
The next ObamaCare open enrollment season begins Nov. 15, just 11 days after the Nov. 4 elections. Because the enrollment season is so close, the rate increases in many states already are known.
"Where we have the tight Senate races, the fact that we're getting these big rate increases just adds fuel to the fire for ObamaCare as a political issue and the Republicans’ attack on it," said Bob Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates.
In Iowa, for example, where Republican Joni Ernst is challenging Democrat Bruce Braley for the Senate, the Des Moines Register recently reported that premiums will be rising by double digits.
"We heard just last week," Ernst said in a debate Oct. 16, "that health care policies, their cost is going up an average of 19 percent..."
In the Louisiana race, Democratic senator Mary Landrieu has tried to distance herself from the president, even as he suggested those who do that still really support him.
But the largest insurer in the state, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, will raise rates as much as 19.7 percent, so her opponent, Republican Bill Cassidy, is running an ad with supporters pegged to the issue.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/23/obamacare-rate-increases-fuel-republican-attacks-ahead-midterm-elections/
Luckily for the GOP, the Democrats own ObamaCare 100%, and while ObamaCare has a couple of good things in it, it has also caused horrendous problems with the country, including making hordes of full time workers into part time workers.
So, when the GOP takes over the Senate in a few weeks, we can thank ObamaCare for that, among other reasons.

ObamaCare Disaster: Wal-Mart Cutting Health Insurance

I saw this coming about 2 years ago when I worked at Wal-Mart.
From ABC: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.

Starting Jan. 1, Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move, which would affect 30,000 employees, follows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others to eliminate health insurance benefits for part-time employees.

"We had to make some tough decisions," Sally Wellborn, Wal-Mart's senior vice president of benefits, told The Associated Press.

Wellborn says the company will use a third-party organization to help part-time workers find insurance alternatives: "We are trying to balance the needs of (workers) as well as the costs of (workers) as well as the cost to Wal-Mart."

The announcement comes after Wal-Mart said far more U.S. employees and their families are enrolling in its health care plans than it had expected following rollout of the Affordable Care Act. Wal-Mart, which employs about 1.4 million full- and part-time U.S. workers, says about 1.2 million Wal-Mart workers and family members combined now participate in its health care plan.

That has had an impact on Wal-Mart's bottom line. Wal-Mart now expects the impact of higher health care costs to be about $500 million for the current fiscal year, or about $170 million higher than the original estimate of about $330 million that it gave in February.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/wal-mart-cuts-health-benefits-part-timers-26015112
Why is the 30 hour mark magic?  That's the ObamaCare cut off as to who receives employee provided health care and who does not.
About a 1 1/2 years ago, Wal-Mart started cutting many hourly employee hours at the local stores.  Many of these employees were considered part time but were still getting about 35-40 hours a week and many were receiving health care from Wal-Mart.  Wal-Mart's health insurance actually is pretty good and at a reasonable price but I guess that's gone now for a lot of people.
Now, Wal-Mart cut those hours to just under 30 hours per week for most of the hourly store workers, and it was all because of ObamaCare.
So, who is to blame?  ObamaCare is the number 1 culprit because none of this would have happened without ObamaCare being in place.
And yes, I predicted this in January: http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-predictions-for-year-2014.html
Number 62.

ObamaVille Retirees Have To Go ObamaCare

Sadly, this is not surprising.
From the Chicago Sun Times: Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday dropped another financial bombshell on Chicago’s 25,000 retired city workers and their dependents: their monthly health insurance premiums will  be going up by a whopping 40 percent — in spite of a pending lawsuit and a precedent-setting Illinois Supreme Court ruling.
Last year, Emanuel announced plans to save $108.7 million a year by phasing out the city’s 55 percent subsidy for retiree health care and forcing retirees to make the switch to Obamacare.
For the city, the Year One savings was $25 million. For retirees, that translated into an increase in monthly health insurance premiums in the 20 percent and 30 percent-range.On Friday, city retirees and their dependents got hit again — only this time, even harder. The city notified them of a 30-percent to 40-percent increase that will cost most of the retirees between another $300 to $400 a month.
The increase stunned Clinton Krislov, an attorney representing retirees in a marathon legal battle against the city and not only because health care costs appear to be “flattening,” as he put it.
What’s even more surprising is the fact that Emanuel is forging full-speed ahead with his phase-out of the 55 percent city subsidy, in spite of a July court ruling that could tip the scales against the city.  http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/emanuel-socks-city-retirees-40-percent-health-insurance-hike/fri-09122014-700pm
Obviously, Emmanuel wants more people on ObamaCare as he is a huge supporter of it and he will break the Chicago's promise to their retirees of providing the healthcare.
And Obama and his ilk said that people can keep their insurance and their doctors.
Tell that to the Chicago retirees.

More ObamaCare Disaster

From the Las Vegas Sun: Nevada’s largest public hospital has borrowed $45 million in emergency loans in recent months just to make payroll for its 3,500 employees.
University Medical Center, which serves Clark County’s poor and uninsured, always has been subsidized by taxpayers, at a cost of $40 million or more annually.
But this year’s financial challenges were far worse than normal. The cause: A surge in Medicaid patients newly covered through the Affordable Care Act.
The state drastically underestimated the number of people who would enroll in Medicaid and didn’t hire enough staff to process the flood of applications.
Statewide, the number of Medicaid patients has jumped 41 percent since October when enrollment started. The state has added 130,000 new patients, bringing the total Medicaid population to 466,956. And officials still are working through a backlog.
While the state catches up, UMC has treated patients waiting for approval. Instead of cash, the hospital received IOUs from the state.
The state recently started paying those IOUs, but UMC estimates it still is behind by $10 million.  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/may/25/surge-medicaid-patients-swamps-state-puts-umc-bind/?utm_source=mostpopular&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=mostRead
Thank you to Gov. Sandoval, President Obama, Felony Thief Dina Titus and Senile/Coward/Liar Harry Reid for giving us this disaster.

More ObamaCare Disaster

From the New York Times: Many employers had thought they could shift health costs to the government by sending their employees to a health insurance exchange with a tax-free contribution of cash to help pay premiums, but the Obama administration has squelched the idea in a new ruling. Such arrangements do not satisfy the health care law, the administration said, and employers may be subject to a tax penalty of $100 a day — or $36,500 a year — for each employee who goes into the individual marketplace.

The ruling this month, by the Internal Revenue Service, blocks any wholesale move by employers to dump employees into the exchanges.

Under a central provision of the health care law, larger employers are required to offer health coverage to full-time workers, or else the employers may be subject to penalties.

The ruling this month, by the Internal Revenue Service, blocks any wholesale move by employers to dump employees into the exchanges.

Under a central provision of the health care law, larger employers are required to offer health coverage to full-time workers, or else the employers may be subject to penalties.  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/irs-bars-employers-from-dumping-workers-into-health-exchanges.html?_r=0

Just wondering...

If ObamaCare is so great, then why don't allow these employers let their employees join ObamaCare?

Hmmmm.

Maybe because ObamaCare sucks?

ObamaCare Kills 100 Jobs At UMC

From the LVRJ: More than 100 University Medical Center employees, including registered and practical nurses, pharmacy technicians, and lab assistants, were laid off Friday as hospital administrators announced the closing of four care centers and an outpatient pharmacy.
The job action and facility closures, according to UMC CEO Lawrence Barnard, were the result of UMC Quick Cares losing millions of dollars and because of new opportunities for patients under the Affordable Care Act, which has expanded Medicaid coverage to more low-income Americans.
“This isn’t easy to do when people’s jobs are involved but we have to have a budget that makes sense,” Barnard said Friday. “With the Affordable Care Act, patients that we had developed programs for basically now have other options and there is no way we can justify keeping open Quick Cares that are losing millions of dollars. Patients who have gone to those will now have other Quick Care options nearby.”
In an April 17 letter sent to Martin Bassick, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 that represents staffers at the public hospital, UMC chief human resources officer John Espinoza noted that both the Total Life Specialty Care Center at 2231 W. Charleston Blvd. and the UMC Outpatient Pharmacy at 1800 W. Charleston Blvd. were opened to help care for Clark County Social Services’ patients — individuals he said now have their heathcare needs largely met through expanded Medicaid and portions of the Affordable Care Act that went into effect this year....
The recent expansion of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in Nevada is expected to result in such a dramatic short-term cash flow problem for UMC that Clark County commissioners recently approved a $25 million loan to deal with “delays in the amount of future cash receipts associated with Medicaid claims and insured patient claims.” The loan must be paid off within 12 months.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/umc-lays-more-100-employees-closes-4-care-centers
There goes Senile/Coward/Liar Harry Reid, Dina "Felony Thief" Titus and President "Of you, but not I" Obama killing more Nevada jobs because of ObamaCare.

Uh,Senile Harry Reid, Is This Fake?

From the Wall Street Journal: When my mother was diagnosed with carcinoid cancer in 2005, when she was 49, it came as a lightning shock. Her mother, at 76, had yet to go gray, and her mother's mother, at 95, was still playing bingo in her nursing home. My mother had always been, despite her diminutive frame, a titanic and irrepressible force of vitality and love. She had given birth to me and my nine younger siblings, and juggled kids, home and my father's medical practice with humor and grace for three decades. She swam three times a week in the early mornings, ate healthily and never smoked.
And now, cancer? Anyone who's been there knows that a cancer diagnosis is terrifying. A lot goes through your mind and heart: the deep pang of possible loss (what would my father and all of us do without her?), and the anguish and anger at what feels like injustice (after decades of mothering and managing dad's practice, she was just then going back to school)....
And then in November, along with millions of other Americans, she lost her health insurance. She'd had a Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan for nearly 20 years. It was expensive, but given that it covered her very expensive treatment, it was a terrific plan. It gave her access to any specialist or surgeon, and to the Sandostatin and other medications that were keeping her alive.
And then, because our lawmakers and president thought they could do better, she had nothing. Her old plan, now considered illegal under the new health law, had been canceled....
Then on Feb. 12, just before going into (yet another) surgery, she was informed by Humana that it would not, in fact, cover her Sandostatin, or other cancer-related medications. The cost of the Sandostatin alone, since Jan. 1, was $14,000, and the company was refusing to pay.
The news was dumbfounding. This is a woman who had an affordable health plan that covered her condition. Our lawmakers weren't happy with that because . . . they wanted plans that were affordable and covered her condition. So they gave her a new one. It doesn't cover her condition and it's completely unaffordable.  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303945704579390772732855560?mod=trending_now_5
So, Senile/Coward/Liar Harry Reid, you said all these people are fakes.  What do you say now?
Felony Thief Dina Titus, a House of Representative member and who voted for ObamaCare, what do you say about this poor woman and all the other lives you have hurt?
President Obama, are you proud of what you have done to this woman and others like her?
And the train wreck continues.

And The ObamaCare Train Wreck Continues On And On And On

From the Best of the Web: Remember when Obama said "the private sector is doing fine"? It was at a June 2012 news conference, and here's the context:

The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we've created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government--oftentimes, cuts initiated by governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.

Last week the New York Times reported on an example of unhelpful behavior from Washington: "Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid having to provide them with health insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
That's right, ObamaCare's employer mandate applies to the public as well as the private sector, and although it's been delayed until next year, "many public employers have already adopted policies, laws or regulations" to avoid its costliest effects, the Times reports.
That means making sure part-time workers don't reach 30 hours a week, the threshold at which the mandate kicks in: "Among those whose hours have been restricted in recent months are police dispatchers, prison guards, substitute teachers, bus drivers, athletic coaches, school custodians, cafeteria workers and part-time professors."
Local officials from across the country describe the dilemmas ObamaCare has forced upon them. "Are we supposed to lay off full-time teachers so that we can provide insurance coverage to part-time employees?" asks Mark Benigni, schools superintendent of Meriden, Conn. "If I had to cut five reading teachers to pay for benefits for substitute teachers, I'm not sure that would be best for our students."
In suburban Cleveland, Mayor Dennis Hanwell of Medina (population 26,678), tells the paper his city had to reduce the hours--and thus the pay--of office clerks, sanitation men, park inspectors and police dispatchers to 29 hours from 35. "Our choice was to cut the hours or give them health care, and we could not afford the latter," the mayor says.  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304709904579407261250790736?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304709904579407261250790736.html
ObamaCare is hurting the nation and cutting hours of the common working man.
People have been laid off and others have had their hours cut.
The next big shoe to drop may be Wal-Mart.  The store I work at have cut the vast majority of workers hours to under 30 hours.  By doing this, they are hurting some of the employees where Wal-Mart is there only job.
While some people will blame Wal-Mart, the true culprit is Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Titus and the Democrats.  They put this law on the books and businesses are reacting to it.
If it weren't for ObamaCare, these Wal-Mart workers would be putting in more hours and getting more pay.

Senile Harry Reid Contyinues To Have Foot In Mouth Disease

And Nevada gets embarrassed again.
From Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being hammered by Republican lawmakers after he claimed on the Senate floor that all the ObamaCare "horror stories" being circulated are untrue.
Reid tried to clarify his remarks late Wednesday by saying he was only referring to the “vast majority” of stories featured in ads funded by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group, and not the complaints of everyday Americans. However, he added fuel to the fire by continuing to slam the group’s backers, the Koch brothers, calling them “un-American.”

Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, in response, said Reid had effectively "attacked the character and integrity of every American who had the courage to share how they're being hurt by the president's health care law." 

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called Reid's original remarks "astounding and offensive." 
Reid said Wednesday morning on the Senate floor that he believes Americans for Prosperity hires actors in their ads to tell fake stories about canceled policies, higher premiums and ruined lives under ObamaCare.
“There’s plenty of horror stories being told,” Reid said. “All of them are untrue. But they’re being told all over America.” 
It was an apparent reference to, among other instances, an AFP ad that featured a woman with cancer who claimed her health care became unaffordable under the law. Her story was called into question by critics, but she and AFP are standing by the ad. 
The outcry over Reid's comments from Republican lawmakers was swift. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said he is demanding Reid apologize to those who have felt ill effects from ObamaCare.
“The majority leader, and any Democrat who agrees with him, owes an apology to all Americans who are suffering under this disastrous law and whose personal stories he has dismissed as ‘untrue,’” he said.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/26/reid-hammered-by-gop-after-claiming-all-obamacare-horror-stories-untrue/
Senile/Coward/Liar is an embarrassment to the State of Nevada that he pretends to represent.  He doesn't live in Nevada anymore and doesn't represent the State in a competent manner.  He only represents elected Democrats and their power and does President Obama's bidding.
It would be nice if the Democrats in Nevada go up to him and say to Senile Reid: " Harry, you have served a long time and it now it has become too long.  You no longer represent us and the values of Nevada and it's time to move on."

Ann Coulter Is Right About ObamaCare

From Ann Coulter: Liberals are winning wild praise for their candor in admitting problems with Obamacare. It shows you the level of honesty people have come to expect of our liberal friends. Now, liberals are applauded for not lying through their teeth about something.
What are they supposed to say? This Obamacare website is fantastic! And really, haven't you already read all the magazines in your current doctor's office anyway?
The New York Times has described Obama's repeated claim that you could keep your insurance plan and keep your doctor under Obamacare as a mere slip of the tongue: "Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that."
Misspoke? How exactly does one misspeak, word for word, dozens of times, over and over again?
That wasn't misspeaking -- it was a deliberate, necessary lie. Even Democrats couldn't have voted for Obamacare if Americans had known the truth. It was absolutely vital for Obama to lie about people being able to keep their insurance and their doctors.
Of course, it was difficult for voters to know the truth because every time Republicans would try to tell them, the White House and the media would rush in and call the critics liars....
Even when pretending to be critical of Obamacare, liberals lie about the real problems. They tell us they're worried about the percentage of young people signing up for Obamacare. The mix of young and old people in Obamacare is completely irrelevant. It won't help if a lot of young people sign up because their premiums are negligible.

To keep the system afloat, what Obamacare really needs is lots of healthy people, preferably healthy older people. Their premiums are astronomical -- and they won't need much medical treatment.
Premiums are set by your age, not your health. It doesn't matter if you never go to the doctor. Obamacare punishes you for having a healthy lifestyle. The Obamacare tax is a massively regressive poll tax on the middle-aged and the middle class.
Apart from those who are subsidized, everyone pays the exact same amount in penalties or insurance premiums for his age group. It doesn't matter if you don't make as much money as Bill Gates. Any 58-year-old male who doesn't qualify for a subsidy will pay the same Obamacare tax as Gates.
When Margaret Thatcher tried to impose the same tax per person, as a "community charge," there were riots in the street.
Our extremely progressive tax system, where nearly half the country pays no income tax at all, and the other half pays about 40 percent of their income, may not be fair. But most people also don't think it's fair to tax a guy making $80,000 a year the identical amount as one making $80 million a year. That's exactly what Obamacare does.  http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-02-19.html#read_more
ObamaCare continues to be a train wreck the Democrats own100%.

Obama/SandovalCare Train Wreck Continues: Nevada's Turn

From Channel 13 Las Vegas: After an emotional meeting last week, the board overseeing Nevada's health insurance exchange has called for another meeting this week to get an update on problems.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board is set to meet on Friday, Feb. 21, in Carson City. The agenda includes an update from developer Xerox on problems with Nevada Health Link and its call center.
For weeks, frustrated customers have turned to Action News for answers after running into problems. The emotions came to a boil at Thursday's meeting of the state board.
"I chose Nevada Health Link just because I thought it would be easy and it's been anything but that," said Dwayne Martinez in an interview with Action News.
Martinez is self employed. He purchased health insurance for him and his wife in December. Nearly two months later, he said the insurance company still doesn't have his information and his wife needs treatment for skin cancer.
"We're dealing with people's lives," Martinez said. "People can't afford to get health care otherwise."
Rather than use the federal government's system, 16 states and the District of Columbia created their own exchanges. Turns out, Nevada isn't the only place having trouble.
http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/you-ask-we-investigate/State-board-calls-for-update-on-problems-with-Nevada-Health-Link-245901641.html
And this story from Channel 13: More than a day after a passionate plea to state officials for help, a Valley man said he is still in limbo over his health insurance.
Lawrence Basich's speech before the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board on Thursday left some in the audience speechless. He shared more of his story with Action News on Friday.
"All of I sudden, I felt a very, very severe pain in my upper chest," Basich recalled.
Basich said he survived one heart attack but is worried stress over health care will lead to another.
"The application process is probably the worst thing I've ever seen in my life," Basich said.
Like many people, he's fed up with Nevada Health Link.
Basich told state board members on Thursday, "I did everything I had to do according to Nevada Health Link. I paid my payment. You accepted my money. But who's going to take these bills off my hands?"
Basich said he paid his premium in November but never got confirmation from the insurance company that he was covered. When he called the insurance company, he said a representative had no information on his enrollment. On Dec. 31, he said he had a heart attack resulting in multiple hospital visits and more than $400,000 in medical bills.
"I'm not going to pay it. I'm just not going to pay it," Basich said.  http://www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/you-ask-we-investigate/Valley-man-explains-passionate-plea-to-health-exchange-board-245628621.html
When ObamaCare was passed, Gov. Brian Sandoval had a choice:
1.  Use the Federal government web site
2. Create a web site for Nevada and by pass the Feds.
Conservatives like myself pleaded with Sandoval not to create a state web site because of the cost and to put the pressure on the Fed's to produce.
Now, it seems like the Nevada web site, run Xerox, is just as much a failure as the Federal web site, and this is the fault of Gov. Sandoval who insisted on it.
Obviously, the Sandoval administration was not providing enough oversight of Xerox and the health care web site and now people are suffering because of it.
I guess this is what you get when you are a full blown RINO. (Republican In Name Only)
And unfortunately for Sandoval, this will cripple any chance he had to become a vice presidential candidate in 2016 and probably hurt his chance to be the Republican to take on Senile/Liar/Coward Harry Reid in 2016.
And the ObamaCare train wreck continues

More ObamaCare Disaster/Train Wreck: Mass.'s Turn

From the Boston Globe:
Bay State hospitals are pushing for a workaround to the state’s disastrous Obamacare website they claim will make it easier for some patients to be assured that they have health insurance.
The Massachusetts Hospital Association wants state officials to institute “hospital presumptive eligibility” — a system that essentially lets the hospitals immediately determine whether a patient in their care is eligible for MassHealth benefits while the state processes their application.
The MHA claims that will assure the patient is covered, as the state scrambles to enroll them.
“MHA strongly believes that if your office works with us to implement such a system, we can collectively provide relief to thousands of vulnerable patients who are, and will be, caught in an unfortunate situation,” the MHA wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz.
Tim Gens of the MHA told the Herald the workaround would apply mainly to patients who are new to MassHealth and come into play in situations where a patient might need outpatient services after hospital discharge — like rehabilitation centers, mental-health facilities or medications....
Simmering frustration over the botched Obama­care website finally erupted last week when Beacon Hill lawmakers blasted state health officials and Gov. Deval Patrick in particular for the vast system failures that have left thousands in a maddening state of health care limbo.
State officials still have to manually process 50,000 paper applications from Bay Staters applying for health insurance at two hours per application.
Patrick announced two weeks ago that he was hiring Blue Cross Blue Shield exec Sarah Iselin as a central point person to oversee the Obamacare rescue efforts and that Minnesota-based Optum would attempt to repair the broken website, which was built by CGI.  http://bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/2014/02/hospitals_seek_obamacare_cure
If there were a State that would be ahead with everybody else, Massachusetts would be the one as they have had mandatory health insurance for many years, compliments of Mitt Romney.
And taking 2 hours per application, that will take 100,000 man hours to catch up.  That is the equivalent of 4167 man hour days, at 24 hours a day, or 11 man hour years to catch up.
ObamaCare continues to be a crash and burn train wreck.

ObamaCare Disaster: Nevada Edition

From the LVRJ: Gov. Brian Sandoval said Wednesday he has run out of patience with the failures of Xerox, the company contracted to run Nevada’s health insurance exchange, to fix the many problems with the system that began operating Oct. 1.
Sandoval said he has been in personal contact with Ursula Burns, chairwoman and chief executive officer of the Xerox Corp., for the past two weeks trying to get the problems with wait times and website errors fixed.
“My biggest concern is the person who can’t get his or her prescription,” he said. “The person who may need access to medical care and not have the medical card and have a delay in that care....
“The No. 1 person who should have known and been in on the ground floor of the issues when they first started is Brian Sandoval. I don’t think he was being given the straight skinny at all. It doesn’t appear that way,” said Las Vegas insurance broker Dwight Mazzone in a Tuesday interview with the Review-Journal.
Mazzone also said Xerox is just as responsible for unresolved issues.
“Strictly from my perspective, no one is held accountable across the board,” he said.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/sandoval-pressures-xerox-fix-nevada-s-ailing-insurance-exchange-now
RINO Sandoval can complain all he wants but he is person most responsible for the problems with ObamaCare- Nevada edition.  He is the one who wanted Nevada to have our own web site and increase the numbers in Medicare.  The increase in Medicare will bite us in the butt when the Feds stop paying for Medicare and put the responsibility on the states.
And here are some problems, from the LVRJ:
There’s no other way to put it.
The website errors, hours-long customer-service waits, confusion about doctor networks, dismal enrollment numbers and missing insurance cards boil down to one simple fact: The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange is broken.
That’s not to say the problems are irreparable, or that the state-run exchange created by the Affordable Care Act fails all who use its Nevada Health Link website. But right now the system hurts more than helps many users. Widespread dissatisfaction could mean trouble if the exchange doesn’t improve.
Just two groups of people will talk openly about the problems: Patients, who can’t sort out whether they’re covered, and insurance brokers, who hear nonstop from panicky customers unable to get answers from either insurance carriers or the exchange. Insurers and doctors are mostly mum, possibly feeling “a little fear of retribution” from some of the exchange’s powerful players, said one industry source.
But those willing to talk say the system contractor, Xerox, has had trouble meeting deadlines, and exchange officials failed to force the company to prove it could produce on schedule.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/frustration-mounts-heartbreaking-state-insurance-exchange
And the train wrecks continues.

And They Are Responsible For ObamaCare?

From Fox News: Have a question on your tax returns? Don't ask the IRS. 

As tax day looms, an annual watchdog report to Congress finds that the agency is falling short when it comes to answering Americans' questions about the convoluted tax code. 

The National Taxpayer Advocate found only 61 percent of people seeking to speak with a customer service representative last year got through to anybody -- leaving nearly 20 million calls unanswered. 
The report largely blamed budget cuts, and lamented the impact the poor customer service is having on taxpayers. 
"At the risk of vast understatement, it is a sad state of affairs when the government writes tax laws as complex as ours -- and then is unable to answer any questions beyond 'basic' ones from baffled citizens who are doing their best to comply," the report from National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson said. 
The study detailed how customer service has steadily declined over the past several years, including at its 400 "walk-in sites." In fiscal 2014, the office said, the IRS will only answer "basic" questions at those sites during filing season. And it will not answer any questions, "even basic ones," after April, even for filers who got extensions. 
"In addition, the IRS will discontinue its longstanding practice of preparing tax returns for low income, elderly and disabled taxpayers who seek help," the report said. 
With the erosion in services, wait times have gone up. In fiscal 2004, callers were left on hold for just 2.6 minutes. Today, the average wait time is nearly 18 minutes. 
Some taxpayers resort to writing letters to the IRS with their questions. The agency received 8.4 million such letters last year, but more than half were not answered by the end of fiscal 2013, the report said. 
The problems stems in large part from budget cuts. The training budget has, according to the report, gone from $172 million a few years ago to $22 million. The workforce itself has fallen from 95,000 full-time workers to 87,000. 
"Thus, the IRS not only has fewer employees than four years ago, but those who remain are less equipped to perform their jobs," the report said. 
As the IRS is reluctant, like other agencies, to simply lay off employees in the face of budget cuts, it has targeted areas like training for cuts.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/30/irs-customer-service-leaves-millions-calls-unanswered/
If the IRS cannot handle it's main job of dealing with taxes, how in the world can they take on the responsibility of ObamaCare?
Will someone please elect an adult as president in 2016 instead of this 1st grade drop out we have in there now?

ObamaCare/Obama Economy Continues To Destroy

From the Las Vegas Sun: For the second time in the past year, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals management is shedding dozens of workers, a union official confirmed today.
Up to 40 nurses from the Las Vegas Valley hospital system are expected to lose their jobs in coming weeks, according to Desi Murray, Catholic Division director at the California Nurses Association, which represents the nurses.
The total includes eight to 10 nurses from St. Rose’s Home Health Services unit, which provides in-home care.
St. Rose, owned by Dignity Health, a San Francisco-based hospital chain, has 1,400 nurses at its three valley hospitals, Murray said. The 40 layoffs would comprise 3 percent of that workforce.
The company said in a release that fewer than 25 nursing positions "will be restructured." It said that those affected by the moves "will be offered the opportunity to transfer to a vacant nursing position within St. Rose." ...
Executives blamed the reductions on, among other reasons, the recession and reduced reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.
http://www.vegasinc.com/business/2014/jan/20/union-confirms-nursing-layoffs-st-rose-dominican-h/?__utma=1.1365956267.1384496354.1390290850.1390290850.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1390290850&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1390290850.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=21131707
And speaking about the disaster named ObamaCare, my wife went to her doctor and he states that because of ObamaCare, his case load of patients has dropped dramatically because people who had to sign up for ObamaCare just found out that this doctor is no longer in their network and the patients have to find a new doctor.
Just more evidence of fraud by Felony Fraudster Obama.

ObamaCare Disaster: More Uninsured Than before ObamaCare

From the Denver Post: About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America.
They make up a coverage gap in President Barack Obama's signature health care law created by the domino effects of last year's Supreme Court ruling and states' subsequent policy decisions.
The court effectively left it up to states to decide whether to open Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor and disabled, to more people, primarily poor working adults without children. Colorado opted to expand Medicaid.
Twenty-five states declined. That leaves 4.8 million people in those states without the health care coverage that their peers elsewhere are getting through the expansion of Medicaid, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation estimate. More than one-fifth of them live in Texas alone, Kaiser's analysis found.
Among those in the gap is Cheryl Jones, a 61-year-old part-time home-care worker from Erie, Pa., who makes do without health insurance by splitting in half pills for high blood pressure, which she gets from a friend, not a pharmacist. She'd also like to fix her broken partial dentures and get a new pair of glasses.
The Medicaid expansion was supposed to work hand-in-hand with tax credits subsidizing private insurance for people with slightly higher incomes, two keys to the law's broader aim of extending health insurance to 30 million more people. As an enticement for states to expand Medicaid, the federal government promises to pay nearly all of the cost.
Without the expansion, the law is unable to help people who are below the income threshold where tax credits start kicking in, about $11,500 for working adults.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_24819401/medicaid-growth-creates-gap-5-million-without-coverage
Just another piece of the ObamaCare puzzle that has been a complete and total disaster.