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Human Events
Obamacare
Exchanges on Life Support
Michelle Malkin
Friday May 15, 2015
At a recent White House science fair celebrating inventors, a Girl
Scout who helped design a Lego-powered page-turning device asked
President Obama what he had ever thought up or prototyped. Stumbling
for an answer, he replied:
“I came up with things like, you know, health care.”
Ah, yes. “Health care.” Remember when the president’s signature
Obamacare health insurance exchanges were going to be the greatest
thing since sliced bread, the remote control, jogger strollers, Siri,
the Keurig coffee maker, driverless cars and Legos all rolled into one?
The miraculous, efficient, cost-saving, innovative 21st-century
government-run “marketplaces” were supposed to put the “affordable” in
Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Know-it-all bureaucrats were going to show
private companies how to set up better websites (gigglesnort),
implement better marketing and outreach (guffaw), provide superior
customer service (belly laugh), and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse
(LOLOLOL).
You will be shocked beyond belief, I’m sure, to learn that Obamacare
exchanges across the country are instead bleeding money, seeking more
taxpayer bailouts and turning everything they touch to chicken poop.
Wait, that’s not fair to chicken poop, which can at least be composted.
“Almost half of Obamacare exchanges face financial struggles in the
future,” The Washington Post reported last week. The news comes despite
$5 billion in federal taxpayer subsidies for IT vendors, call centers
and all the infrastructure and manpower needed to prop up the showcase
government health insurance entities. Initially, the feds ran 34 state
exchanges; 16 states and the District of Columbia set up their own.
While private health insurance exchanges have operated smoothly and
satisfied customers for decades, the Obamacare models are on life
support. Oregon’s exchange is six feet under — shuttered last year
after government overseers squandered $300 million on their failed
website and shady consultants who allegedly set up a phony website to
trick the feds. The FBI and the U.S. HHS inspector general’s office
reportedly have been investigating the racket for more than a year
now...
Read the rest of the article at Human Events
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