Seriously? The media decides to compare the rollout of Obamacare to Dubya’s handling of Hurricane Katrina? But if that isn’t insane enough, the media had to take it one step beyond that and try to make it sound unfair to Bush to compare Obamacare to Katrina. Naturally, the Daily Show makes quick work of that: […]
Republicans seemed positively gleeful that “only” 40,000 people signed up on healthcare.gov in its first month. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement saying “Above all, this report is a symbol of the failure of the president’s health care law. It is a rolling calamity that must be scrapped.” Senator Marco Rubio called the numbers […]
If you have only been hearing about the problems with the website, read this article about people who have already been helped by the ACA. Why would anyone want to go back to what we had before? If there are problems with the site, fix them. If people are being cancelled by their insurance company […]
© Tom Tomorrow And in this case, there is plenty of blame to go around. I remember Obama saying several times that the “majority” of people would be able to keep their current health insurance plans. Why in the world would he change that to claim that everyone would be able to keep their current […]
© Tom Tomorrow I have a new rule. If someone complains about something wrong with Obamacare, I officially don’t care unless they suggest how to fix the problem (other than repealing Obamacare). Problems with the web site? Fix them. Employers reducing the number of full time employees? Change the rule. As long as people are […]
Who better to fix the problems with the healthcare.gov website? © Ruben Bolling It has often been noted that people seem more than happy to throw their private information at websites like Facebook and Twitter, if they get back something in return. Maybe the NSA should change their tactics?
Several surveys have shown that more Americans have an unfavorable view of Obamacare (44%) than a favorable view (38%). Republicans have taken this statistic and twisted it to claim that Americans want them to get rid of Obama’s signature health care reform. Heck, the GOP believes this so strongly they even shut down the government […]
In the beginning there were “death panels“, followed by a long string of other “Pants on Fire” lies. So it is no surprise at all that there are still new lies going around the media about Obamacare. For example, the media is reporting that Obama lied (and knew he was lying) when he said that […]
© Stuart Carlson This is one I’ve been wondering about. Why are Republicans suddenly so concerned about problems with the healthcare.gov website? A few weeks ago they were willing to shutdown the government in order to delay Obamacare. If Obamacare is having problems that are delaying the rollout, shouldn’t they be happy?
In two separate comics, Adam Zyglis captures the irony of the rollout of the healthcare.gov website. © Adam Zyglis On one hand, the creation of a website as complicated as this will always have problems. It is silly to claim that this is some kind of inherent defect in Obamacare. I work with the web […]
Krystal Ball tells it like it is: Why can’t the rest of the media explain it as simply and straightforwardly as this? UPDATE: Apparently the American people agree. In a new poll, 54% think it is a bad thing that the GOP controls the House (compared to 38% who think it is a good thing). […]
Eric Stern wondered if the accusations by Fox News that Obamacare is a “train wreck” have any basis in reality. So he was very interested when Sean Hannity last week had three couples on his show, each of which had an Obamacare “horror story” to tell. But their stories often didn’t make sense, so he […]
© Matt Wuerker I guess the GOP figured that Obamacare isn’t going to be repealed, so now they have changed their tune back to one of their greatest hits — the deficit. Is it any wonder that the Republican party has now broken the record for the most despised political party since Gallup started polling […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yesterday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner gave his first and only interview since the shutdown began. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions, and Boehner got angry and almost lost it: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. If you think killer robots is an unfair analogy, one of the departments […]
USA Today has done a review of the new HealthCare.gov website and how it helps people sign up for health insurance in the new Obamacare marketplaces, and have declared it a winner. Look past its start-up glitches — they’ll get fixed — HealthCare.gov is an out-of-the-box success for consumers shopping for health insurance. As for […]
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