[logdog]

A couple of days ago, Fox News’ Bret Baier read this letter on the air:

“Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage. Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin – all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!! And in that amount of time – this administration can’t build a working webpage.”

Amazing, isn’t it?

[billethkid]

when there is an open checkbook to the many, many who are supposed to make this work....and the longer it doesn't work the more money they collect from the government, why would they hurry to make it work?

And like all other government projects who is the boss? The leader? The person who was charged with making it work? No accountability....no responsibility plus a basket full of excuses make it OK for the current administration.

There was no understanding in the beginning...let's pass the bill to see what is in it.
There was no cost analysis after it was passed.
There was no plan to make certain things happen before the implementation.
There was/is no leadership!
Why is anybody surprised? ANYBODY?

I can't wait till a couple of more shoes drop. How about the new health care plan reducing Medicare costs by half a billion $$$?

Unlike the other disastors of recent reporting this one will affect too many of we the people for it to go the normal route of...ignore....start a fire some where else you know the old red herring game.....
but this one is not going to get better....it can't....no more than building the house without a foundation and then trying to go back and make it work before it falls in.

No plan....no leadership....no results....no surprise.....
And how many millions will be hurt in the process....it is a shame!

btk

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by gomoho

You are aware medicare is fraught with fi ancial woes and fraud. Just because it is up and running doesn't .mean it's successful

So is the private insurance industry fraught with financial woes and fraud. Except they pass their financial woes on to their customers, whom they've got backed into a corner. I have never been so stress-free over my medical care since qualifying for Medicare. Just think... a government healthcare plan that is WORKING. I pay a couple hundred dollars a month for Medicare and a supplemental plan that covers me anywhere and allows me to choose any doctor I want, and I have no copays on anything.

As opposed to paying $450/month for a miserly plan with a 7K deductible because I have a pre-existing condition.

It's government healthcare, and I LOVE Medicare.

[janmcn]

Originally Posted by CFrance

So is the private insurance industry fraught with financial woes and fraud. Except they pass their financial woes on to their customers, whom they've got backed into a corner. I have never been so stress-free over my medical care since qualifying for Medicare. Just think... a government healthcare plan that is WORKING. I pay a couple hundred dollars a month for Medicare and a supplemental plan that covers me anywhere and allows me to choose any doctor I want, and I have no copays on anything.

As opposed to paying $450/month for a miserly plan with a 7K deductible because I have a pre-existing condition.

It's government healthcare, and I LOVE Medicare.

And were there problems with Medicare when it started? You bet there were. Half of the states refused to participate. Ronald Reagan said in 1981, paraphrasing here "Medicare will be the end of freedom for our children and grandchildren".

Medicare has had almost 50 years to work out the bugs. The Affordable Care Act sign-up period is six weeks old and doesn't even go into effect for another six weeks.

Every tactic to repeal this law has been tried and failed. The one big chance was a year ago, and we all know how that turned out.