About those 6 million jobs created by or during the Trump Administration. What would be this number if we did an Obama count . . . . "created and saved."

Of the 6 million jobs created during the Trump Administration,  1 million are black jobs and 2 million are Hispanics  . . . . .   part of the reason for a 40% Hispanic/Trump approval rating.

If we were still in the Obama B.S. years,  the job count would be around 20 million "created or saved" jobs.  Understand that the Recovery began during Obama who did nothing to generate jobs except cross his fingers.  The Expansion began 24 hours after Trump's Inauguration Ceremony.  The steep incline in the Market and the Economy literally began during that first 24 hours after an 800 pt. drop in the Market (during the first 12 hours)  . . . . .  a fall completely reversed by the end of the first 24 (hours). 

Krugman predicted a Market collapse should Trump win the election.  Asked when the Market would recover,  he said,  "Never."   Again,  with the first 12 hours, it looked as though Krugman was right.  The following two and half years (after the first 12 hours) have proven Krugman to be as partisan and unprofessional as one could imagine.  

 Obama's "recovery" was the slowest in modern history,  averaging 1.8% GDP.  By contrast,  the first two years of Trump,  the "expanision" years,  have averaged 3% GDP.  In fact,  the Obama recovery was so slow,  that Barack invented the "created or saved" category,  a desgination never before used by prognostricators.  Turns out that "created or saved" was solid B.S.  in the same vein as his claims for ObamaCare.  

Since its signing in March of 2010,  30 million folks remain uninsured (ASA was never "universal"), costs have increased by as much as 30% instead of decreasing by $2,500 for a family of four,  millions of folks have been forced off their existing policies and into ObamaCare, and deductibles have grown so high ($12,000 for a family of five  -  my son's policy) that few can afford to use their ObamaCare policies for coverage.  And so,  after nine years,  we are still talking about the health care crisis,  a crisis that was supposedly solved by Barack and his genius for dealing with economic/fiscal problems.

ObamaCare was approved by the High Court because it was considered a tax, and Central Planning is allowed control of our taxes via the IRS.

Abby Goodnough / New York Times: Appeals Court Seems Skeptical About Constitutionality of Obamacare Mandate

Editor:  Now that the individual mandate is gone,   ObamaCare cannot be a fairly applied tax.  Instead,  it is now only a product and cannot be forced upon the population by Central Planning  . . . . .  at least,  that appears to be the current and most pressing problem for this nothing-burger federal program.  

After nearly 10 year,  ObamCare has proven itself to be an abject failure.  Time to let it go  . . . .  and thank you Barack,  for not having enough business sense to write a health care program that actually works.  BTW,  roll into this criticism Elizabeth Warren.  She played a central roll in this monstrosity of a federal invention.   

Let's not forget that it was Donald Trump who struck down the individual mandate.  If ObamaCare is defeated in the High Court,  the victory will go to the President alone.  In the meantime,  Medicare has been expanded to include millions not previously covered,  and the individual states certainly have the right if not the obligation,  to "fix" the healthcare problem for their individual populations   . . . .  so,  agian,  what is the problem?

They said it couldn't be done after all these years, but ObamaCare may have come to an end, all because the individual mandate is gone.

Paul Demko / Politico:

Appeals court skeptical Obamacare can survive  —  NEW ORLEANS — A panel of federal appeals judges aggressively questioned whether Obamacare can survive during Tuesday afternoon oral arguments in a case that could upend the 2010 health care law.  —  Two Republican appointees … 

 

Editor:  "They" can cry about the loss of ObamaCare,  but,  seriously,  what is the problem?  30 million folks are still without health  . . . .   the same number as before Obama "solved" the problem back in 2010  . . . .  proving that ObamaCare was never universal.  A family with three kids has an annual deductible of $12,000 which means that they will never use their ObamaCare protection.  They,  in affect,  have no health care and there are several million of these examples.  180 million folks have healthcare via their employer(s).  All of the population has emergency care via our E.R. hospital system.  And those illegals who need ongoing care can always return to their home countries where,  for most,  they have a healthcare system that will accept them.  

So, exactly how good is Obama Care?

Gallup took a poll during the second week of 2019 about insurance coverage in 2017 -2018.

Those answering the poll said that they borrowed 88 billion dollars in 2018 to cover help care cost,  that 15 million folks deferred purchasing RX drugs and 45% said that a major health event could lead to bankruptcy.  

Need I remind the readership that ObamaCare is still the law of the land and this Gallup poll reflects on the current state of the Obama plan.  Time to fix our broken health care system.

Even health insurance companies are cutting back on available jobs. Kind of humorous in a sad sort of way.

From Breitbart to you: 

Mercy Health announced Thursday it will fire 347 workers due to “increasing challenges to our reimbursement structure as we adjust to reductions mandated by the Affordable Care Act,” the company said in a statement.

President and CEO of the Mercy system, Lynn Britton, said the Obamacare-induced layoffs are taking a toll on workers and their families.

“Changes such as these are difficult and distressing for everyone involved,” said Britton. “While our decisions support Mercy’s ability to stay strong and relevant in the face of challenges impacting all health care providers, today our thoughts and prayers are with those co-workers who are affected.”
Mercy Health’s firings will take place across the four states in which the health system operates, which includes Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Nationally, Obamacare remains deeply unpopular. The RealClearPolitics average of polls finds that just 43% of Americans support Obama’s signature legislative achievement.

Obamacare will cost U.S. taxpayers $2.6 trillion over its first 10 years.

Tax increases are on their way, for the 20% of this nation who actually are forced to pay the bills for the rest fo the nation.

<<<<  Just to be clear:  20% of this nations wage earners  (individuals and corporations) pay 85% of the total tax bill.  30% pay the remaining tax bill,  and the remaining 50% of this nation pay nothing in federal and state taxes.  Progressives love to call our tax system,  "progressive" but "regressive" is the actual defining concept   . . . . . .    take it to the bank  (as you pull your annual savings out of the bank to pay your regressive tax bill,  and be sure to keep voting for these morons.  Thanks). 

The law is more than a fundamental change to the country’s health care system. It also is a massive tax hike. As The Heritage Foundation’s Federal Budget in Pictures shows, according to the most recent scores, Obamacare will increase taxes by nearly $800 billion for the period of 2013-2022. So says Heritage.  For what it is worth,  this 1 trillion dollar (wanna bet that is what it will be,  before the Big Government types get finished?) will not begin to pay for the unfunded liabilities this law will incur.   I mean,  if Medicare has an unfunded liability of 38 trillion dollars  (see the article, here)  and Social Security has an unfunded liability of nearly 9 trillion dollars  (see the article,  here),  you know,  without a doubt,  that 10 years from now,  we will begin to see estimates as to massive unfunded liabilities with regard to ObamaCare.  

Understand that Progressive Utopians,  believe that China,  Japan and internal domestic borrowing  (we borrow from our selves,  if you can believe that nonsense),  will last forever.  That's what this bunch believes.  So they oppose a "balanced budget" amendment or any talk of austerity.  And when austerity becomes the irresistible demand of the day,  contrary to popular Utopian,  Flower Power theory,  the consequences will be severe   . . . .    to include radical civil unrest.  

Here are a couple of charts documenting the tax increases of ObaamCare,  despite Obama' lie,  "Your taxes will not increase one dime":  

 

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(source for the following:  Heritage, here)

Understand that these taxes will be paid by your children and grandchildren  (Xer's  and Millennials).  

ObamaCare: In a speech today, Barack is now admitting that something over 10 million (not 11 million plus) are signed up. The goal was 13 million for last year

Updated for this commentary:  The penalty for not signing up in early 2014 was $95.  The penalty for this second year (2015) is $305.  The penalty for 2016 will be $695.  If you enroll to avoid the penalty in 2016 of $695,  you will pay $1,700 for your coverage for one year,  money out of your pocket,  and the Feds will pay the remaining $4000 (an estimate)  cost for your policy. 

Obama will tout the penalty as a reason for buying insurance,  hoping that you will forget that your out of pocket expense will be three or four or five times the amount of the penalty.  It is just a matter of time,  before folks realize what a scam,  this ObamaCare,  truly is.  This is not healthcare reform.  Rather,  it is insurance reform and nothing more.  

What is a joy to me,  is the fact that because of the ignorance of those thinking they had fooled the people,  the Utopian Dream of "single payer" is dead,  dead, dead.  Maybe 60 years from now,  Single Payer will be revisited,  but,  for the immediate future,  Single Payer will be tied to Government Ineptitude,  and is dead in the water,  for that reason .  Thanks to Pelosi/Obama,  and the moron we know as Harry Reid. 

ObamaCare's woes are beginning to flourish, once again. By the 2016 election cycle, it will be big news, and for the same reasons as before. But instead of 16 million folks screaming, it will be 160 million.

Out of Bloomberg, we have this report:  

President Obama trumpeted the success of his signature healthcare law on Tuesday, releasing a video on Facebook that boasted that 11.4 million people who have signed up or re-enrolled in Obamacare in 2015. Sunday marked the latest deadline for Americans to sign up in an open enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. 

Editor's note:  Understand the original and stated goal, was 13 million.  The target population, is 19 million folks,  with 160 policies about to come under the ObamaCare umbrella,  this year per the much delayed "employ/union mandate."  

 

"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is working. It's working better than we anticipated, certainly working a lot better than many of the critics talked about early on," Obama said in the video shot in the Oval Office featuring the president and Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell.  

Editor's notes:  " . . .    working better than we anticipated . . ."  is an outright ly.  Again,  the goal was 13 million by this time in the sign-up process,  and 78% of all who have signed up,  get subsidies.  THAT does not pay the bill.  

While the number of people signed up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act has given the White House reason to celebrate, the administration has reason to worry about whether the news will remain positive for Obamacare. With the April 15 tax deadline approaching, an estimated 6 million Americans are expected to to face a penalty for not enrolling in a healthcare plan. While the 2014 penalty starts at $95, it will rise in 2015 to $325. 

Editor's notes:  And the following year,  2016.  just in time for the presidential election season,  the fine will be $695.  Like I implied, "Just in time for the 2016 election cycle."  

Even more troubling for the healthcare law, the Supreme Court will soon begin hearing arguments in the King v. Burwell case, which will decide the ultimate fate of the program's federal subsidies. If the court rules the subsidies unconstitutional, millions of Americans will lose their insurance and costs are expected to skyrocket

Editor's notes:  The number varies with each article I read,  but the total number of states not in ObamaCare is around 30.  The High Court is being asked to decide if subsidies can be paid to the folks living in those states.  The law is written to exclude them.  Now that the Administration sees this as a huge mistake,  it is hoping for mercy from the Court.  The Supreme Court can decide that subsidies should not be paid out in the state in question,  per the written law.  If the Court makes that ruling,  ObamaCare is dead in the water.  Oh,  it will flay around,  but sooner,  than later,  it will sink to the bottom of the cesspool we can call "academia," and go the way of the river bottom.  

ObamaCare is already dead. We are just waiting, graveside, for the eulogy. Here is why:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.   Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly urge the administration to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year.  

Editor’s notes:  Here is the Democrat nightmare when it comes to fines and ObamaCare.  The fines are cheaper than the annualized premiums,  so,  “fines” or not,  folks with no money will choose the fine.  The first year,  2013,  the fine was $95 .  This year,  the second year,  on April 15,  the fine for not having insurance will jump to $325 per person,  per year,  which is cheaper than the annualized premium of $1,200+ ,  an out of pocket cost with for the working poor.  Next  year,  in April of 2016,  an election year,  the fine will be a whopping $695 . 

What the three Democrat House members fear,  is something that will happen year in and year out.  They want a solution for this year,  but,  next year,  the fines double and,  again,  in 2016.   What is their plan,  then?  Did no one in the Utopian Party look further than nose(s) as to project cost to the consumer?   Apparently,  these Utopian Dems simply do not get just how much of a disaster ObamaCare is becoming to  the future of the Democrat Party.  

I have a friend,  working in Denver.  Last year his monthly,  out of pocket, premium was $80 per month.  This year,  it is $189.  If it more than doubles,  next year, and then the next,    he will not be able to afford the insurance and will be forced to pay the fine   . . . . .   if, in fact, the Leaches in our government, will allow him to opt out.  Give this thing until 2020,  and no one in the working Middle Class will be able to afford this “safety net,”  and ObamaCare will be done.  

Without "repeal and replace,"  ObamaCare is already dead.  We are just gathering at the cemetery,  waiting for someone to give its eulogy.  

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Payment schedules for the cheapest of fines,  is found here:  https://www.healthcare.gov/fees-exemptions/fee-for-not-being-covered/

Remember that lie, "Health care for a family of four will decrease by $2500 per year?" That didn't happen, of course, but, worse yet, your deductibles will soon be so high, you won't be able to afford to go to the doctor -- for some Americans, that time is NOW. Stop voting for these clowns !!!

Thanks to the scam that is ObamaCare,  and its pretense of lowering healthcare costs,  the deductibles are not so higher,  and growing, that folks are deciding against treatment for serious illnesses,  in record numbers.  The chart is telling us that this increase represents the most Americans putting off medical attention,  since Gallup has been keeping records (2001).  

If your premiums are relatively low,  it is because your deductibles are $4,000 to $12,000 and more.  Meaning?   Your out of pocket expenses are higher as a result of our know-nothing Whatever, H.  Obama, can't afford to use your insurance.  Ditto for the poor,  who qualify for subsidies on their monthly payments.  It is just a matter of time before their deductibles will render their insurance, "null and void."   What happens then?  Obama will start bragging about how he cut medical coverage costs for all Americans when the truth is,  no one will be able to afford ObamaCare.  It's like PG & E,  here in California,  running ads on how to cut utility costs.  Their solution?  "Stop using your freaking appliances !!" or words to that effect.  

How poorly run is the ObamaCare system? After 10 months, there [still] is no operational accounting and as to "wildly popular," 87% of enrollees are paid to sign up (it is called "sbusidies").

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Understand that the "back end" of the ObamaCare website is where all enrollment information is collected and transferred to the several insurance companies.  It is, also,  where enrollment information is used to give an accounting for such things as enrollment numbers, profitability (libs would prefer the term "sustainability'), insured demographics,  and the like.  Sadly,  this "back half" is not, yet,  "up and running."  

You may not know this,  but most,  if not all,  bonafide enrollment information is being transferred by hand because of the systemic issues involving the final stages of the website.   

In this video,  we have a spokesman for Aetna admitting that the company does not know the demographics of its newly insured population (whether young or old,  healthy or sick).  He does know that the 600,000+  enrollees are more old and sick,  than otherwise.  He also knows that 87% of those enrolled are subsidized.  And,  if you listen carefully,  you will realize that Aetna hopes for a 3 to 5 percent profit margin,  but,  currently,  it is not earning any money from ObamaCare.  

Medicare owes itself 47 trillion dollars and Social Security owes itself (they call it "unfunded liabilities") 17 trillion at last count  --  neither program would be viable in the private market or in a government circumstance that does not invent money.  But,  because we, the United States of  America and its "dollar,"   are the world's currency and can print money because of that fact,  we think we don't need our do-gooder, welfare programs to be sustainable.  The profit-hating Marxists among us,  see no need to balance budgets or protect profit margins at some level.    

Most Americans do not realize that Medicare is the heart and soul of ObamaCare and is broken beyond repair,  as a financial system.  There is no reason to believe that ObamaCare will not add another 50 trillion to Medicare debt,  in the coming four decades, just as Medicare has done in its first four decades.  The problem?  Too large a population demand on the system.  The fact of the matter is this:  Big Government does not work  . . . . .   period.  Such is not even debatable.  The evidence is "in,"  and the conclusions have been clear for a generation or more. 

Update:  A failure of management by the Obama administration led to the disastrous rollout of the ObamaCare website and caused the government to incur tens of millions in additional costs, according to a congressional watchdog report released Wednesday.

In a recent report,  the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has concluded after a months-long investigation into the rocky rollout of ObamaCare – the website, that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ failure to establish “effective planning or oversight practices” was to blame for website’s myriad problems after it was launched.  Mismanagement and stupidity has added “tens of millions in additional costs”  totally  $840 million and counting. 

The back end of the site remains broken,  and – perhaps – beyond repair. 

The “cost increases” include those for the glitchy computerized sign-up system for consumers, which ballooned from $56 million to more than $209 million from Sept. 2011 to Feb. 2014. The cost of the electronic backroom for verifying applicants' information jumped from $30 million to almost $85 million.  This is the “back end” of the web site,  and,  as mentioned above,  it remains broken in spite of a $175 million dollar bill for fixes to the website.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, one of the lawmakers who requested the investigation, said in a statement Wednesday that the report “confirms our worst fears.    Millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted to build a website that didn't work, all because of bureaucratic incompetence,” he said.

Over the months,  a reported 8 million American’s have signed up for coverage,  but as many as 4 million people may not have coverage,  at all,  due to lost application information and the a failure in the subsidies program. 

The Associated Press, Fox News and Midknight Review all  contributed to this report

The individual mandate, its forced compliance and penalties are all on hold. Off course, the current Occupy DC crowd that is the Obama Regime plans on ignoring the decision . . . . for now.

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Below,  states effected and their insured populations under ObamaCare.

Go to Forbes.com, here for a great review of this decision's potential

implications,  written on July 2 of this year.  

Good news for those of us who are sick and tired of the Clintons.

Despite news releases that placed Hillary's new book,  Hard Choices,  near the top of the NY Times Best Sellers list,  sales came in at just 60,000 books sold.  According to most reviews,  Hallary's book tour has been a disaster on many levels.  Clearly,  she has little charismatic appeal,  is looking old, and is boring in her staid defenses on Benghazi and her lack-luster time served as Secretary of State.   

The book,  itself,  is more a campaign document,  and, the tour,  an excuse to politic her candidacy for president.  In press interviews,  she is combative and,  often,  irritated with the questioning.  

And the Right is not impressed.  There is a mountain of information on this woman,  documenting her past abuses,  her failed Hillary Care effort  -  the real forerunner to ObamaCare, her support of this failed health care reform**  and,  her involvement in the Benghazi cover-up.  Her sense of candidacy entitlement is a subtle but critical issue and her inability to inspire,  my prove to be the death of her bid for the top office.  

**  Understand that before ObamaCare,  the US ranked 12th in the industrialized world as to cost and benefit.  Today,  four years after signing this bill into the tax code,  the US remains at #12,  while 43 million Americans remain uncovered,  and health care costs continue to skyrocket.   Individual premiums rose a the rate of 9.9% in 2008.  Obama claimed this rate had markedly decreased,  even before ObamaCare kicked into high gear.  The facts of the matter,  are considerably different.  The truth finds 2010 rates rising at at a 11.7% clip,  compared (again) to pre-Obama rate increases of 9.9%.  See the Common Wealth Fund for more information.  

News Alert: The fraudulent "ObamaCare" reform law, is so poorly written, that fiscal sustainability is impossible without a bailout (an oxymoron) - and the Obamanites are working, feverishly, for that end. There should be a law against THAT.

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Under the Chicago Tribune's headline, Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses,    we have this:  

The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money  . . . . .   The move was buried in hundreds of pages of new regulations issued late last week. It comes as part of an intensive administration effort to hold down premium increases for next year, a top priority for the White House as the rates will be announced ahead of this fall's congressional elections.

They continue to argue that most insurers shouldn't need to substantially increase premiums because safeguards in the healthcare law will protect them over the next several years.   But the change in regulations essentially provides insurers with another backup: If they keep rate increases modest over the next couple of years but lose money, the administration will tap federal funds as needed to cover shortfalls.

Editor's notes:  Of course the article goes on and on,  but this excerpt is enough to make my point(s).  

First,  clearly,  those who wrote the bill into law,  new full well, that this piece of legislation was never going to be sustainable on its own merits.  We know this,  because,  written into the bill are provisions for an industry wide,  ObamaCare bailout.  To put it differently,  "We know this,  because,  written into the bill are provisions designed to gloss over and hide,  the systemic fiscal failings of this legislation,  failings that will never be 'fixed.' "  

I say, "never,"  because the fiscal failings of Social Security  and Medicare have never been addressed,  and they amount to more than 60 trillion (with a "t") in unfunded liabilities.  

Secondly,  we now know that the writing of this bill is not complete - and may never be - after four years of being "law."  The Tribune speaks of "new regulations,"  and,  "change in regulations,"  and in those phrases,  makes it clear that the phrase "established law,"  as applied to ObamaCare,  is little more than laughable.  Of course,  we have known this, without debate,  for some months,  now,  what with illegal postponement after postponement.  But,  with this latest news,  we now know that the "law" is a systemic failure,  if judged on the basis of sustainability and promises of debt reduction.  Let's not forget that,  besides the current regulatory bailouts,  the bill stole $700 bill from the already-broke, Medicare program.  

Third,  you should know that the unmentionable fact in the Tribune's article,  Obama's hometown newspaper, btw,  is this:  funding the insurance companies will not work against the "bottom line" of this Idiot's Bill.  With the "change to regulations,"  the Administration can claim tout a "successful bill,"  because the expenditures to the insurance companies are, now,  a part of the law.  They will tell us,  "This is the how the law was designed to work,"  that the "initial sign-up period" really is not over,"  that it will be years before the "success" of this law is finally known.  That is where the Progressives are going with this moronic program.   The postponements,  and these "regulatory changes,"  prove the bill's failure.  

Turns out,  the Dems are no more efficient at waging war,  maintaining peace, and, job creation,  than they are at writing legislation.    

Sadly,  like the man in the scam commercial says,  "But wait !!!!  There is more."  

One wonders,  just how many election cycles will be used to cover the Progressives' failures as to the workings of this bill?  Certainly 2012, 2014 and 2016 are not the end of the matter.  It is a shame and a sham,  that the Democrats are only waiting for this bill's failures to become accepted by the voting public

What most people do not know is this:  Harry Reid canceled five scheduled Senate votes on the law,  due to lack of support.  Had he asked for a vote at anytime before that last vote,  the bill would have been defeated (on five different occasions).  And now,  these same Marxist Misfits,  are forced to hide the truth of this laws malfeasance,  for the voters in 2012,   2014,  and,  to be sure,  2016.  

Here are the latest talking points coming from the WH versus the truth.

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Editor's notes:  before reading the following,  understand this,  Obama has decided that, since he controls all of the information about ObamaCare,  his lies will work as he attempts to avoid the disaster that the midterms promise to be.  More than 80% of this nation believes Obama will intentionally lie,  at least "on occasion."  So far,  however,  he does not see a price for playing this word game.    

Further,  since no one can actually challenge his claims with established and inescapable facts, at the moment,   he has decided to "double down" on the lies,  hence "more than 8 million" have signed up for ObamaCare.  

Ask yourself this:  if ObamaCare has exceeded all its major goals,  why are the postponements still in force?  Why did he postpone cuts to Medicare Advantage this past week?  Why is the two year delay to the union mandate still in force?  I believe there is more,  but the very existence of the postponements prove his claims to nothing but [more] lies.  

Now,  here is my take on the ObamaCare talking points.  

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Actual Obamacare results are in. And in most cases they are exceeding expectations.

8 Million+ citizens are now enrolled in Obamacare. 

Editor:  Understand that 6 million Americans  were kicked off their existing insurance policies and “re-enlisted”  into ObamaCare.    These  are not newly insured.  Insurance companies tell us that only 15% of the nations previously uninsured have signed up.  In other words,  ObamaCare was created to provide insurance to the 48 million "previously uninsured."  To date,  somewhere between 600,000 and 1.5 million of the "uninsured" have enrolled,  a terrible failure rate.  

35% of citizens enrolled in Obamacare are under 35 years old.

Editor:  7% of these “enrollees” are under age 18 and are automatically included when their parents enroll.  Only 28% of young  adults are paying (maybe,  someday) “customers.” the fact that this man has to lie about this number,  means "things are not going well for ObamaCare"  . . . . . . . .  period. 

Obamacare has brought economic security to all consumers of health insurance.

Editor:  I have no idea why this was written.  No one on Medicare has benefited from ObamaCare,  not in the slightest. 

Over 14 million have received insurance over the exchanges and via the Medicaid expansion to Obamacare.

Editor:  Medicaid expansion is not ObamaCare.  They are different.  Medicaid is a state run insurance   “safety net”  and is not extended to single,  unmarried,  Americans.   

Medical cost is now growing at less than 1/2 the previous rates.

Editor:  this is a preposterous lie for those who actually pay for their coverage.  Premiums have gone up at record rates; deductibles have skyrocketed;  and  healthcare accessibility has been sharply limited.  These are the facts. 

Obamacare is shrinking the deficits.

Editor:  another outrageous lie.  ObamaCare now enlists Medicare and Medicaid.  Medicare,  alone,  is 42 TRILLION dollars in arrears and ObamaCare’s first ten year cost (ending in 2020) is around a (minus) trillion dollars with the 2^nd 10 year projection being a minus 4 trillion dollars. 

Understand that ObamaCare has been collecting taxes since 2010 without having to pay for insurance claims.  Ten years of tax collections versus 6 years of outlays.  That is the first 10 “bait and switch” program.  The second ten year period,  will be 10 years of tax collections and 10 years of payouts.  Very bad news for all us taxpayers.  You “takers”  have nothing to worry about.  

Did you know that no one in the Obama Administration continues to tell us, "Your premiums will go down by $2,500 per year, for a family of four?" Here is why:

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My oldest grandson,  we have 19 grandkids, was asking about ObamaCare premiums and the claim that the rise in premium costs has slowed because of this legislation.  Besides the fact that no one in this Administration of Lies is [still] telling us,  “The cost for a family of four will decrease by $2,500 per year,”  we have the truth as seen in the following chart.  Here is my facebook answer to Hugo,  and that chart: 

Hugo, here is a chart from Morgan Stanley showing the real [increase] costs coming our way. All the reports I have read in the last week, say the increases will be the most extreme in two decades. Apparently the Census folks are no less Obama supporters than is the IRS, the DOJ, the EPA, OSHA, the ATF or the WTF. Think about: if the individual fine is going up from $95 this years to $695, two stinking years from now, just how much will premiums [increase?]

More From the Editor:  Remember the BS claim that "the rate of premium increases" has slowed to a 10 year low?"  Besides the scary increases charted for the end of 2013 and 2014,  we now know that the July, 2012 rates,  the slowest growing-rates in years,  have been completely reversed,  per the chart,  even before 2012 came to a close.  The fact is this,  rates have been on the increase, and historically so,  since the end of 2012.   We should expect to see a total rate increase of more than 50% by the end of 2015.  

Me?  I think this is funny.  Reality is the conservatives' best friend, here.  the war of words and lies will continue,  until those who work for a living and pay for those who don't, get the freaking bill.  ObamaCare is a millstone around the necks of the Democrats,  and it will be that way for the foreseeable future. 

Chuckles.  

Kathleen Sebelius, one of the worst administrators in modern times, has resigned her post as head of HHS.

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<<< Sebelius,  one of the unhappiest looking women of all time,  announces her "retirement."

Many are not surprised,  after the "announcement" was made,  in the morning of Tuesday, April 1 (April Fools Day).  Obama had assembled his team of cheerleaders for his staged press conference.  For some reason,  Reid, Pelosi and,  most notably,  Kathleen Sebelius were not there, and this "victory" was as much theirs as Obama's.

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Update and correction:  Turns out Kathleen Sebelius WAS in the staged audience on April Fool's Day,  which makes matters worse for the retiring HHS secretary.  Obama makes the announcement, refuses to have Sebelius at his side AND does not bother to acknowledge her presence in the audience  . . . . .   as clear an example of just how self-serving and disloyal this man can be.

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And the rumors began.

Today,  nine days later, Sebelius is gone and the Administration is busy defending its numbers against the truth and its stated goals.

Of the "7.1" million "signed up and into "the private market" (as Obama calls it),  no numbers were available, from the Administration,  relating to the breakdown of that total.  Rand Institute tells us that the number of folks who are first time insured is less that one million people.  Of the remainder,  3 to 4 million are folks  replacing the insurance ObamaCare took from them,  and the other 2 to 3 million are enrollees into Medicare (which is NOT ObamaCare).

Before ObamaCare,  there were 48 million uninsured, or so we have been told.  After ObamaCare,  there are 47 million uninsured.

The Administration believed that the uninsured would come flocking to the Exchanges,  but that did not happen.  They believed America's youth would come flocking to the Exchanges,  but,  again, that did not happen.  They believed the healthy would come flocking,  for some ungawdly reason,  but THAT did not happen,  either.  So the roles are full of retired folks and those needing various decrees of subsidies (80% of the enrollees).  And the law is headed for more difficult times than before.

Understand the law is perpetually feckless,  as a piece of legislation,  not because of how it was/or has been administered,  but,  rather,  how it was written.

You know there is something systemically wrong,  when it takes a political party with no opposition,  a full year to write a "rough draft," and,  four years later,  open a website that is the laughing stock of anyone with commonsense.    And all this  is on Obama,  Reid and Pelosi; Sebelius is only a scapegoat.

Maybe she will start smiling again.  She has been through "administrative hell,"  and, now,  that period in her life is over.

Decide for yourselves but ask this question: Don't the American people and their businesses need protection while we fight the fight over ObamaCare?

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Megyn Kelly: This weekend you got in a weird online argument with Matt Drudge, of the Drudge Report this weekend. Where he suggested the House Republicans expanded Obamacare with a voice vote last week. And a voice vote is controversial because it doesn’t really require the vote to go on record. You came out and said, “We didn’t expand Obamacare.” Here’s the bottom line. I trust Chris Firewall on FOX News. What he says is, “Conservatives are mad over this House passed fix because it mitigates some of Obamacare’s damages to small businesses and in essence what you’ve done is to allow Democrats to crow that they have finally broken the GOP blockade. Did you give on something you shouldn’t have given on?

Speaker John Boehner: Our goals all the way through this is to protect the American people from the awful effects of this law and to continue to work to try to repeal it. And, so over the last three years there’s probably been eight or nine changes to Obamacare that the president’s actually signed into law. This being one of them…

Megyn Kelly: You think it’s good. But the critics are saying good or not you broke the blockade of standing firm against any change.

Speaker Boehner: They’re have already been eight or nine changes over the last three years.

Megyn Kelly: So it’s not the end of the blockade?

Speaker Boehner: No.

Somehow, the timing is perfect: 'The debate over repealing this law is over' . . . . and a happy April Fools Day to You, too.

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'The debate over repealing this law is over': Obama boasts 7.1 MILLION have signed up to Obamacare - but study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid up!

• [Going for the "Here today,  gone tomorrow," headline for the next two or three days]  President took a major victory lap and took political shots at Republicans, but ignored shortcomings in his administration's official numbers
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• [Coming up with, yet, another stall,  after nearly five years of preparation],   Press secretary Jay Carney will only say 'we're aggregating a lot of data' when asked how many enrollees have paid for coverage
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• [Relying on a test tactic known as the 'bob and weave'],  Carney dodged questions about damning study that showed very few Obamacare customers were uninsured before the law took effect
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• [Ignoring the fact 80% of all enrollees are either getting coverage free or are being paid a subsidy to sign-up for the law].   Percentages from a hush-hush RAND Corporation study suggest barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans have enrolled and paid premiums
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Remember, most of the indigent poor will be placed in Medicaid. Of those actually buying insurance on the government controlled "private" insurance "market," 3 out of 4 will see their premiums increase over and against what they were paying for the insurance they were told they could keep "period."

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<<< The downward trend in the rate of increase,  is coming to a screeching halt,  thanks to ObamaCare.  

The current downward trend in the rate of insurance cost increases,  over the past two years  --  well before ObamaCare kicked in  -- is due to the efforts of the private market.  The Lying Administration (I can now say that,  right?) wants you to believe that the "threat" of coming insurance reforms,  is the reason for the trend.  Nonsense,  but,  for the sake of argument,  let the Administration have its claim.  The fact of the matter is this:  that downward trend is coming to a screeching halt, and,  without question,  the reversal is or will be due to the existence of ObamaCare,  since there is nothing else to blame.

Let's not forget that the promise was for cheaper insurance,  $2,500 cheaper, per year,  for a family of four.  That ain't the talk today.  "They" want you to forget that promise and concentrate on the argued "fact" that the rate of increase was the promise,  all along.  Not true,  and now,  you have no choice but to pay for insurance whether you can afford it or not.  Stop paying for three months out of 12,  and you get fined PLUS, you have to make up those payments or be transferred into a more expensive policy.  THAT is your future.