"Six million" is the new "zero" and they knew it would be this way, four years ago.

<<<  Can you believe this?  Just 7 days ago,  the number was "5 million."  One million "sign-ups" in record setting time.  Does anyone in this Administration know that "we" are wise to their word games??  

In a video at the Washington Examiner, here, (sorry but I could not capture the video link)  where the AP reviews the issue of enrollment,  for a fast food worker,  and came up with this surprising fact:  Allen Backer,  a fast food employee,  makes TOO LITTLE to qualify for subsidies and, thus,  cannot afford the premiums quoted to him online with the Federal Exchange.  He could have qualified for Medicaid,  hardly a quality substitute for real insurance (but it IS coverage), but Georgia did not participate in the Federal Exchange and did not expand its Medicaid rolls.  It “did not” because the state does not trust the Feds for reimbursements,  and cannot bear the cost of a blotted Medicaid program.  

What does not get mentioned, in all this,  is the fact that the Feds should have seen this problem coming and posited solutions for the folks like the Backers within the text of the ObamaCare bill,  proper.   Instead,  their  "solution"  was this:  “If folks cannot afford our affordable insurance solutions under ObamaCare,  we will pawn them off onto the various states.”  That was their solution  -  to let someone else worry about it  . . . . . . . kind of the same solution used in Obama’s foreign policy program,  his jobs creation program,  his alternative energy program and on and on. 

Before you start blaming the states for the problems the Backers are having,  understand that public opinion opposed this insurance reform,  from the beginning.  This has been, solely, a Democrat debacle from the start,  and no amount of criticism against the “uncooperative states” will change that fact. 

We, as the American people,  have run out of trust and that is proving to be a huge problem.  Understand that Obama did not create this trust deficit,  but he certainly has magnified its importance – and we all know how well he handles issues of “deficits.” 

In the most recent AP/GfK poll,  covered on this blog,  support for ObamaCare has fallen to a new low of 26%.  While the Obama Spin Machine is busy lying its way to a 6 million-plus-enrollment-number for program sign-ups,  the fact of the matter is this:  it is common knowledge that six million folks lost their existing policies, months ago.  A six million enrollment number simply gets us back to zero. 

Four years ago,  the Administration was talking about the “30 million uninsured.”  Somewhere along the line,  that number was raised to 45 million,  so that the Administration could tout its version of “success,”  arguing that,  while ObamaCare is not “universal,”  as promised,  the uninsured rate has come down from 45 mill to 30 mill.  

Really?  “Masterdebating” is all this amounts to.   It is interesting to me,  however,  that “they” saw this problem (poor sing-up numbers) coming,  years ago,  thus, the change from “30 million” to “40 million.”  Another very subtle piece of evidence telling us that they knew,  all along,  that this program was going to be highly problematic.