(Newswire.net — November 13, 2013) Portland, OR — Under this method, people who have paid for plans aren’t the only ones who will be lumped into the administration’s public tally. In an attempt to inflate its numbers, HHS also plans to count anyone with a policy sitting in their online shopping cart. Nevermind that they haven’t bought the coverage — or even committed to buying it. HHS is too desperate for progress to care about honest accounting.
Even if you accept this “generous” accounting system, the White House is still set to fall ridiculously short of the half-million prediction for October it set before the launch.
Sources for the Wall Street Journal estimate that just 50,000 have enrolled in private health plans since the launch. And the states numbers are just as bad as 12 government-run exchanges have hit a measly 3% of its sign-up targets — including Delaware (four enrollees), D.C. (five enrollees), and Oregon — where not one person wants to chance it with the new rationing policy.
HealthCare.gov has been cleverly repackaging the law’s penalties. The penalty is now the “Individual Shared Responsibility Payment”. HHS isn’t just trying to hide the fines, but insists “market research” has shown that “consumers will be more receptive to soothing messages… than to threats of punishment.”
Duh!
And earlier this week new videos were released exposing the corruption by the “navigators” program by James O’Keefe.
It looks like government-paid workers that were hired to help advise customers on the new health care law are coaching them on how to cheat the system.
To a person who doesn’t qualify for an ObamaCare subsidy, the navigator says, “You lie because your premiums will be higher.” If you smoke, warns another, “don’t report it.”
While the beleaguered HHS struggles, Democrats are throwing the President under the bus.
In a surprising statement, former President Bill Clinton had rather blunt advice for the current administration. “Even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”
Stepping up to plate as well was Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) saying “I think the President was grossly misleading to the American public.”A lot of Americans, a lot of Oregonians, have stayed with the same policy for a number of years and are shocked that their policy got cancelled.”
The line is just starting as Fox news reported that “Democrats are breaking ranks with the White House”.