If PINO Obama Were a Republican, ObamaCare Would've Been Repealed By Now

Obamacare ‘success story’ says she can’t afford new health plan

Washington State Wire reports that Jessica Sanford, 48, discovered that she is no longer eligible for a large subsidy that would have lowered her monthly premium to $169 per month. Instead, Sanford would now be forced to pay nearly four times as much, $621, for coverage...That's a complete 180 from what Sanford thought she was signing up for last month when Obama touted her as an Affordable Care Act success story.
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CNN reports that in the days following Obama's Rose Garden ceremony Sanford received a letter telling her that her tax credit had been taken away, meaning she won’t be able to afford coverage. Officials reportedly told her that they made a mistake in calculating her benefits. Sanford is reportedly one of 8,000 people in Washington State who have received letters informing them that their promised subsidies have been reduced or removed.

"Obama was briefed earlier in year on health website problems"

IN MARCH 2013, PEOPLE. So was he "stupid" after all when he went around telling us all it was going to be great and working as it "is supposed to"? No, I think what happened then is what's still happening now: denial of the truth of the whole matter, plus a great deal of fear-inducing. No one wanted to be the messenger bearing any bad news to Obama, who doesn't cotton to criticism or bad news one iota, especially if it's of his own doing.

Even as the administration fended off criticism of the so-called "front end" of the system, officials revealed Tuesday that they had not completed development of the "back end," the financial management component needed to finalize federal subsidies for consumers who buy health plans.

[That's like Detroit putting out a car without an engine.]

A spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the lead agency for the website, said it would not be completed until mid-January, weeks after the first enrollees are scheduled to begin receiving benefits under the Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 as Obama's signature domestic policy.

From the Daily Beast, "Why Youth Is Revolting Against Obama (Hint: It’s Not Just Obamacare)":

While there’s no question that the launch of Obamacare has been a major disaster, the fact is that the youth revolt against Obama started almost immediately after he moved into the White House...The abysmal and pathetic launch of healthcare.gov is simply the cherry on top of a shit sundae Obama’s been whipping up for the kids. You can protest that the stimulus should have been bigger, but when you judge its success against what the Obama administration claimed it would do, it was an epic fail. While masquerading as the peace and freedom candidate – easy to do against such hawkish characters as Hillary Clinton in the primaries and John McCain in the general election – Obama prided himself on tripling troop strength in Afghanistan and tried to extend our stays there and in Iraq. But for the vocal pushback from Rand Paul, Justin Amash, and a bunch of younger, non-interventionist Republicans, there’s every reason that the U.S. would have started an unsanctioned war in Syria, just as it did in Libya (where things are working out...how, again?).

And it isn't just the Millennials upset with Obama: Quinnipiac Poll, Nov. 12,2013:

American voters disapprove 54 - 39 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his lowest approval rating in any Quinnipiac University national poll since he became president, as even women disapprove 51 - 40 percent, according to a national poll released today... For the first time today, American voters say 52 - 44 percent that Obama is not honest and trustworthy...Voters in every income and age group disapprove of the job Obama is doing, with the biggest disapproval, 59 - 36 percent, among voters over 65 years old.

CBS News polled Obama's approval rating "sinks to 37%."

The uber-liberal CNN can't even hide its own worsening polls of Obama:

Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll.

And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning also indicates that 53% of Americans now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, the first time that a clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way.
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Fifty-six percent say he is not a person they admire, and an equal number say he does not agree with them on important issues. Fifty-six percent also say he does not inspire confidence, and 53% don't view him as a strong and decisive leader. All of those figures are all-time records for Obama in CNN polling.

And Gallup finds that "Americans' Belief That Gov't Is Too Powerful at Record Level". SIXTY PERCENT OF US believe this now. Imagine that? More Americans think that the federal government under Obama is more dangerously powerful than it was when the reviled George W. Bush was in "power." What does that tell you about P.I.N.O. (President In Name Only) Obama?

And now Quinnipiac's Ohio poll today shows "the president's approval rating hitting a record low of 34 percent in Ohio. Obama's disapproval rating has jumped to an all-time high of 61 percent."

Maybe Americans are finally able to see through political ploys like oh, um, lying, and "faking" good jobs reports which helped Obama get re-elected in 2012   (if he were a Republican, investigations would have already begun, like they should), and willy-nilly just changing what is already supposed to be "The Law Of The Land" (again) to cut unions a break from all the bad stuff, and only letting us see the good parts of ObamaCare before his re-election and and not telling us the whole truth about the bad parts till after, and oh, illegally pushing out the deadline for 2015 open enrollment till AFTER the 2014 elections so we can't see what our even-more-jacked-up premiums/deductibles/co-pays will be for that year until after the Democrats make the most of their re-election bids:

This is beyond arrogant. This maneuver shows utter contempt and disdain for the intellect and capacity of voters to see this move for what it is: a blatantly political calculation on the part of President Obama. What the Democrats see on the political horizon must be absolutely horrific if they think this can be done without infuriating voters more than they already have been...Democrats must think this delay is to their net political advantage. Apparently, they have decided that enough voters will be mollified, caught napping and be outright deceived by their actions that it will make a difference in the November election.

Maybe Americans really are more and more upset that Obama and race-baiting Democrats like Oprah Winfrey really think we're stupid and can't see what they're doing.

Better late than never.

"Obamacare will kill middle class," as described by The Detroit News:

But Obamacare’s pain is spread much broader. Those with employer-provided insurance are also getting stung. Policies that previously asked for manageable contributions from employees will now carry either much higher monthly premiums or outrageous deductibles and co-pays, or both. Out-of-pocket costs are leaping to an average $5,000 to $6,000 annually for individuals, and $10,000 to $12,000 for families.

From The New York Times:

Of the 13 states that have so far said they will allow consumers to renew canceled plans, all but four are led by Republican governors and have generally been opposed to the new health care law. Of the eight that have said they will not carry out the policy, six are in Democratic-led states...

But the damage done so far by ObamaCare really can't be undone:

Americans are beginning to understand that the essence of the Affordable Care Act is that millions of people are being conscripted to buy overpriced insurance they would never choose for themselves in order to afford Mr. Obama monies to spend on the poor and those who are medically uninsurable due to pre-existing conditions. Both Mr. Obama and Republicans are blowing smoke in claiming that the damage done to the individual market by the forced cancellation of "substandard" plans (i.e., those that don't meet the purposes of ObamaCare) can somehow be reversed at this point. It can't be.

From The Fiscal Times:

Attitudes towards Obamacare are unlikely to improve any time soon. Millions have had their insurance cancelled, and it is dawning on millions more that Obamacare will not make them better off. They are likely to have narrower doctor and hospital choices and higher premiums; they are seeing Obamacare for what it is – a large step towards income redistribution.

Speaking of that, even the liberal New York Times exposes ObamaCare as the economic redistribution scheme it really is, in its sarcastically-titled article, "Don’t Dare Call the Health Law ‘Redistribution’":

These days the word is particularly toxic at the White House, where it has been hidden away to make the Affordable Care Act more palatable to the public and less a target for Republicans, who have long accused Democrats of seeking “socialized medicine.” But the redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of the law and lies at the heart of the insurance market disruptions driving political attacks this fall.
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After he took office, he cast his goal of rolling back President George W. Bush’s tax cuts for higher earners not as economic redistribution, but as the restoration of top-end rates from the Clinton years. The Affordable Care Act was a similar semantic sidestep. The law targeted high earners, too, by raising their Medicare taxes enough to reduce their after-tax incomes by nearly 2 percent, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

What Else To Expect From ObamaCare in 2014 and 2015:

Technology woes beyond Dec. 1...More cancelled health plans...Small business insurance disruption...Companies with 50 employers or fewer...[are] next on the cancellation block when the dispensation runs out...Rate shock round two...The consumers who were forced to buy more expensive ObamaCare-compliant insurance this cycle will be exposed to another big price spike...You can't even keep your ObamaCare plan...or your Medicare Advantage plan. The Affordable Care Act's deep cuts to the popular private insurance alternative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare are starting to burn, and seniors are starting to see higher premiums, reduced benefits and fewer choices. The steepest funding cliff arrives for the 2015 plans that will start to be sold in September...And maybe not your doctor...In the 1990s Americans rebelled against cost containment pressure, such as the "drive through" rules that told women to leave hospitals a day after giving birth. As beneficiaries seek care, they'll find they can't visit their family physicians without huge out-of-network markups, or can't get certain procedures without prior authorization. Such methods are the only way to keep premiums affordable amid ObamaCare's costly benefit mandates...Physician dissatisfaction. U.S. medicine is under major financial strain, but not because the government is paying for quality instead of volume as liberals claim. Exchange insurance with Medicaid-style networks pays Medicaid rates, while ObamaCare's Medicare cuts are also sending that program's price controls to Medicaid levels...These rates are already so low that many doctors won't take new government patients. Look for many doctors to start to conclude they will make a better living—and have more autonomy—by opting out. Providers participating in federal programs are subject to onerous quality-reporting rules, even if the metrics don't accurately measure quality. The Affordable Care Act treats health professionals like robots on a factory line who can be reprogrammed to execute federal work orders...if the disruption spreads, and complaints multiply, don't be surprised if Democrats force the White House to reopen the law.

And a group known for its support of Obama has been paid $1 million to try to find and publicize "success stories" about ObamaCare.

Is it any wonder that "Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare:

“We’re trying to deny what everyone knows is happening,” said one Democratic pollster who is a veteran of competitive congressional races. “Anybody who is halfway intelligent knows this is a big … problem for us. It’s impossible not to see. We can try to hide our heads in the sand and pretend it’s not a problem, but it is.”
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A CBS News poll released Wednesday showed Obama with a 37 percent approval rating, his lowest figure ever in that survey. A ">nother all-time low in the poll: approval of Obamacare, which stood at 31 percent.

And you know the Emperor Really Has No Clothes when even Saturday Night Live is reminding everyone of all Obama's debacles, again and again.