Why do people place so much trust in government in the first place? Almost without exception everything they touch, they wreck.
Yep, those highways, clean water and clean air really sucks doesn't it.
Breaking up Ma' Bell really sucked too.
Yes, they mess things up, but the same can be said for big business.
$500 million for a website that doesn't even work. Now Obama is calling in "experts". Well, hell, why not call them in the first place?
Government contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder.
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it? " - Rockhound - Armageddon
Also bear in mind, no website has ever had to go live from day one with this kind of traffic. Ever. Websites can be designed with it in mind, but until it gets tress tested, which normally happens as traffic ramps up, you don't know where the faults lie. Lastly, a website... Really a website fails and clearly the entire thing is a joke. And of course let's blame Obama for it, because obviously he has nothing better to do than micro manage the development of a website.
Like him or not, it's BS to blame him for the failure of this website or claim the entire rollout was a failure because of a website.
It passed without a single Republican vote, not one. And it was passed with so many backroom deals, and then passed using a technique called "reconciliation" that heretofore had never been used to pass legislation of this scope (one seventh of the U.S. economy is health-related). Yes, ObamaCare is a steaming pile of ****, and it should be repealed.
It wasn't for lack of trying.
They made concession after concession and DID have teh agreement of many Republicans, after all, it was a Republican idea it was based on. Had Dems got what they really wanted, we would have single payer. Instead they made compromises with Republicans who turned on them when it came to a vote, making all those compromises worthless.
Why did none of them vote for it?
Because they agreed after the election to not let him pass ANYTHING if they can help it. Which they have done the first and second term.
Also, most people like most of what is in it. Minus the mandates (which are ridiculous anyhow and going to be hard to enforce) and the impression that it has caused rates to go through the roof (complete BS). The insurance companies have been raising rates like crazy over the years, but many people were shielded from it by their employers (this is why you weren't getting any raises). Now the employers see a way to get the extra burden off their backs and blame someone else, and insurance companies saw a way to crank up rates even faster and place the blame elsewhere as well.
As for the exchange...
My mom's insurance dropped $900 per month, BEFORE government incentives.
Mine went low enough that I can afford to get some and not have to rely on the V.A. and this is all in a state that isn't even participating.
So while YOUR insurance may go up, check and see what you can buy it for through the marketplace, you might find you're getting screwed and lied to. You probably are.
