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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Collapse of the Leviathan

Erick Erickson (Diary) |
106,000 Americans have put an Obamacare plan in their shopping cart on one of the state or federal Affordable Care Act websites. It is not that 106,000 people have paid for a healthcare plan. The federal government has decided to tabulate those who have paid for an account and those who have merely selected an account without checking out from the website as having gotten a healthcare plan.
Less than 27,000 have actually checked out from the federal government’s own healthcare exchange website. Meanwhile, 5 million Americans have lost healthcare coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act. It will, we now know, take longer to get the website fixed than it took to win World War II — and even then the Obama Administration intends to consider it a success if only 80% of Americans can log on. Imagine if Amazon.com considered it a success if only 80% of its customers could check out.
Many of those who have not lost healthcare coverage are seeing rates escalate rapidly. Some young men are finding out that Obamacare now affords them one trip per year to a gynecologist and will cover their maternity needs. Complicating matters, Obamacare lets adults stay on their parents’ insurance to age 26. But, Obamacare needs these same young adults to sign up for their own plans to prop up the system.....To Read More....

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