Most Open and Transparent Lies Ever
Here is something I knew but didn’t remember: last year, the exchange prices were all out on October 1. This year the administration has chosen specifically to delay listing them, over a month, until after the election.
There are multiple meanings of transparent. And open, for that matter. When we were promised the most open and transparent administration ever, what we were promised were open disregard and transparent lies.
In response to If you like your health insurance, you can go screw yourself: The fix is in. Last year, on December 15, I signed up for non-ACA health insurance after moving to a new state; I’ve just been notified it will end in December. The transitional policy fix appears to only apply to policies in effect as of October 1, 2013.
- Obamacare Website Won't Reveal New, Higher Premiums—Until After the Election, Of Course: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Information is leaking out, though, and we know we're due for some hefty increases. In three states with highly-contested Senate races (I'll send you to the link to find them out) they're expecting double-digit rate increases.”
More Barack Obama
- Obama to lead domestic violence shelter
- Former President Barack Obama promises to tear down the barriers of hate, and end the divisions that plague shelters. “We will restore the Sanctuary’s image as the last, best hope for acceptance for all those touched by domestic violence.”
- Trump vs. the Media: authenticity and humility
- A meme running around comparing what President Trump wrote in the Holocaust memorial guestbook to what Senator Obama wrote shows a surprising humility in President Trump.
- The Last Defense against Donald Trump?
- When you’ve dismantled every other defense, what’s left except the whining? The fact is, Democrats can easily defend against Trump over-using the power of the presidency. They don’t want to, because they want that power intact when they get someone in.
- Election lessons: be careful what you wish for
- Republicans should learn from the Democrats’ mistake of the primary season: be careful what you wish for, you might just get… half of it. They wanted Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
- Lessons for new Presidents: Entangling long-term alliances
- How will our foreign policy change after President Obama’s Fortress America?
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More ObamaCare
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare
- Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.
- Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is “the end of health care”
- From the mouths of hypocrites, comes wisdom. It’s almost biblical.
- Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?
- The Truth About Republicans: they don’t want to repeal Obamacare.
- Economies of scale and government-run health care
- Economies of scale only produce lower prices when people are allowed a choice of service providers—including the choice to forego the service. Government-run programs do not benefit from economies of scale—in fact, scaling up will cause increased prices when the industry is run by the government.
- A tale of two negotiators
- If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
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