Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Thousands Who Enrolled In ObamaCare Still Without Coverage

by JASmius

The clusterbleep that will never go away - or the gift that keeps on giving:

Thousands of Americans who signed up for ObamaCare by the March deadline continue to be without health insurance coverage due to backlogs and technical problems with enrollment systems, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In some states with state-run [cartels], such as Massachusetts, California, and Nevada, consumers enrolled and paid for insurance plans but have since discovered they are not insured. 

Others have waited for changes to their coverage after giving notice of "life events," such as marriage, pregnancy, and child birth, but have been unable to get the necessary changes processed to reflect their new status, effectively leaving them without coverage for their new circumstances.

The situation has caused some to delay seeking medical treatment, while others have been forced to pay out of pocket for medical needs that should have been covered under their insurance, the Journal reported.

Call it a useful reminder of what Barack Obama has done to American healthcare, an inoculation against resignation and complacency.  Or, if you're more of my realistic psychological bent, call it rubbing salt in the proverbial terminal wound.

What interests me about this story is how it is but one brick in a Pink Floyd-esque wall of reasons why no Democrat candidate in the entire country should get so much as a single vote on November 4th.  America's collapsing global position, the forfeiture of hard-won victories in Iraq and Afghanistan, the resurrection of the old Evil Empire, ISIS on the rise to resume al Qaeda's North American offensive, the Bowe Bergdahl trade, the permanent economic depression, the Central American invasion of the Southwest, and now back around comes the ObamaCare cataclysm once again, lurching toward ballot boxes to be reborn.  An American electorate with three brain cells to rub together and/or the slightest capacity to rise above the crass corruption culture carefully cultivated by the White House for the past six years ought to act with extreme prejudice (pun intended) to severely punish the party that perpetrated this comprehensive national calamity.

But then, that's what I thought in 2012, and look how that election turned out.

"Physician, heal thyself?"  If only, my friends, if only.

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