The Bad News, The Really Bad News, And The Really Really Bad News About The ObamaCare Failure To Launch...

The folks at CNBC aren't known for being wild-eyed crazy Teeeeee-Party, 'baccy-chewin', cousin-marryin', mouth-breathin', Newt-lovin', Neanderthals: i.e., in the eyes of Obama, anyone who thinks this whole ObamaCare thing is not a great idea.

So, when they have this to report, it may be worth reading:

First, the bad news:

As few as 1 in 100 applications on the federal exchange contains enough information to enroll the applicant in a plan, several insurance industry sources told CNBC on Friday. Some of the problems involve how the exchange's software collects and verifies an applicant's data.


"It is extraordinary that these systems weren't ready," said Sumit Nijhawan, CEO of Infogix, which handles data integrity issues for major insurers including WellPoint and Cigna, as well as multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates.


Experts said that if Healthcare.gov's success rate doesn't improve within the next month or so, federal officials could face a situation in January in which relatively large numbers of people believe they have coverage starting that month, but whose enrollment applications are have not been processed. 

This, folks, is a formula for chaos, with thousands of patients hitting the door of the doctor's office needing care, claiming to be covered, because after all, they signed up, or were signed up they think, for ObamaCare. Think about it. How many people do you encounter at the local fast-food joint, the convenience store, pass by on the road as they man the traffic flag at a construction zone, etc. A lot of these folks struggled to get through high school, or didn't manage to. Now, they are adults, struggling to survive, and they need medical care! They are just as human, just as deserving to not live in chronic pain, or with untreated diabetes or cancer, as any university president. They go through the struggles to attempt to sign up, think they've done it, but information is missing, or the miserably designed system malfunctions, or their application is lost by an insurer, or, or, or....

The Really Bad News:

One insurer reported a better, but still stunningly low, rate of enrollment applications containing enough data to process for coverage. 

"It's about half of what we've received," a source at that insurer said.

"We're getting incomplete data—about half of the applications we haven't been able to process," said the source, who used the term "corrupted" to describe the batch of applications received. 

Which means, in real terms, that applicants will have to be contacted individually to complete applications (how many employees, how many hours, who pays for them?), sending them back to the starting gate in many cases. And, remember, the system has already proven it cannot handle traffic...

The Really Really Bad News:

Experts said that if the lag in processing enrollments continues on a large scale, insurers expect the federal government to tell them that they must provide benefits to people even as applications are still being processed. 

"In talking to some of the insurers, they pretty much assume that even if there are issues, the feds will say, 'You know what, it's your problem, they've signed up,' " said Koritala. 

In other words--insurers will be compelled to pay claims on patients that may or may not actually be included in their coverage! Hmmm....at what point will they be able to say 'No' to patients who never complete their applications, or imaginary patients created by dishonest providers, or patients created by identity theft, or patients who never pay premiums because they don't know their coverage status, or....

And, who pays for this? Where does the cash flow come from to actually issue paychecks to all those employees hired to complete those enrollments, and claim checks to all those providers?

Now, let's contrast these facts with Massah Obama's comments last week that Republicans don't want Americans to have health care, heartless souls that they are.

If someone were to devise a system designed to bring health care to a halt for everyone in the country, it would look like the Byzantine disaster that Duh Prez insisted be launched last week.

Yes, the US could really use an efficient, sane, cost-effective way of making sure as many people as possible have health care that doesn't bankrupt their families.

And no, ObamaCare is not the means to accomplish this. That's what we wild-eyed crazy Teeeeee-Party, 'baccy-chewin', cousin-marryin', mouth-breathin', Newt-lovin' Neanderthals have been saying all along.

The Best Explanation To Date About The Gubb'mint Quasi-Shutdown...

HT: Doug Ross

OS Calls 1-800-318-2596, Just Like Mr. Obama Urged The Country To Do

It was, well, an interesting half-hour, calling ObamaCare Central.

OS decided to celebrate this great day in American history by calling that number that Massah Obama told us all to call.

He was, naturally, routed into a phone answering tree service. Not surprising. After asking for a representative and telling the computer which state he was calling from, he was put on hold.
Again, no surprise, no offense taken.

In a few minutes, the line opened up to a representative's desk, only OS found himself not speaking to a representative. He kept repeating, 'Hello, anyone there?' Never an answer....

Only the line was open, and OS realized he was overhearing conversations between the customer service reps. No one was doing any customer servicing. OS overheard laughter, references to schedules (work schedules? fee schedules? No way to tell...) and he heard references to training manuals. The voices sounded young. They sounded like young employees who had reached some sort of impasse, didn't have any guidance on what to do next, and were standing around chatting with one another.

It was eerie. OS stayed on the line for 33 minutes, and then moved on.

Again, nothing incriminating or offensive was overheard--just the sound of a bunch of kids waiting for the boss to tell them what to do next.

Welcome to our new health care system.

One would think, with so much money on the table, so much blood spilled to arrive to this day, the reputation and legacy of a presidency on the line, and a White House and Senate demanding no delay in launching this initiative...that they would make certain they had checked the system out before a general launch. Or that they would roll it out in phases, region by region perhaps. Beta test it, test-drive the model with some initial units like a car company does, before putting them in the showrooms.

But not this President. Not this administration. They're waaaaay toooooo clever for that.

This battle is not over, folks. It may just now be getting underway, given that the administration has demonstrated its arrogance, incompetence, and willfulness to the world.

Abdul Haji, The Hero Of The Kenyan Mall Massacre: The Case For An Armed And Responsible Citizenry

Contrasts are stark, tragic. On the one hand, we have a paranoid schizophrenic with a shotgun and a security pass into one of America's most vital defense bases, where he goes on a rampage, murdering people who WERE NOT ALLOWED the means to defend themselves. Thank you Bill Clinton, for ordering that employees in these sensitive posts be sitting ducks.

On the other hand, we have some El Shabab homeboyz who decide to kill as many as they can inside a shopping mall. Horrific, inexcusable, words fail. (By the way, what did our Homeboy-In-Chief have to say about these young Kenyans, who could have been one of his sons? Anything?)

There was someone on the ground, Mr Haji, who knew what to do. He was armed. He was trained, He was responsible. He entered the mall to help defend his brother, and ended up fighting alongside the police to rescue the victims. That fabulous picture showing the tiny girl running toward the outstretched arms of that African gent? That African gent is Mr. Haji, a Muslim, a decent compassionate man who was equipped for the task.

The Telegraph features a wonderful story about him. Comes the time, comes the man....

Mr Haji said his father taught him to use a gun to protect their cattle from bandits when he was growing up. 

Last Saturday, he used his skills to provide fire cover for the Kenyan Red Cross workers and, over a period of three hours, help to evacuate some of the 1,000 people who escaped the mall in the initial stages of a siege that would last three days and leave at least 72 people dead. As he stood with a fellow rescuer crouched outside the Nakumatt supermarket, Mr Haji said he noticed the women hiding under the table.

"Just a few minutes ago we were exchanging fire with the terrorists and these people were right in the middle of it, in the crossfire. We regrouped and we started to strategise on how to get them out of there," he said.


Let's think about this. President Trayvon, if he had his way, would make certain that the Mr. Haji's of America would be disarmed. All of the little Trayvons, of course, would be armed to the hilt, ready to fire into playgrounds (as occurred in Chicago last week) or shopping malls (which may occur next week, who knows?).

What if the decent and compassionate, the sober and responsible, were equipped for the task of responding immediately to the little Trayvons?

Thank You, Senator Cruz

You stood up and insisted that the RestOfUs need to be heard. For twenty hours or so, you stood up and insisted that what is about to happen to this nation will be detrimental to this nation.

Most of your erstwhile colleagues left you hung out to dry. Except for John McCain, who didn't have the stones to actually show up and ask questions while you had the floor. He waited until you departed to vilify you for something you didn't say.

Country First, my hindquarters.

Dick The Turban Durbin showed up in the final hour or so, knowing the press would finally be covering the marathon, to waste time and spew accusations at you. He shut up after learning that you never signed your family up to the ultra-Cadillac health insurance plan offered to Members of Congress--the one he helped fashion and in which he and his family are enrolled.

Massah Harry showed up to distract and delay, knowing you would be weary after twenty hours or so. Then, after you departed, he vilified you.

Ahhhh, Leadership.

Senator Cruz, you drew blood from them in that twenty hours. That's why they squealed, and vilified, and attempted to interfere, and did everything they could to silence you.

As a Tennesseean, OS is ashamed of Senators Alexander and Corker for not showing up to support you. Lamar Alexander's primary opponent now has the platform to challenge from: When it was the hour to stand up, to be counted, to risk unpopularity with Mitch McConnell and John McCain and Harry Reid and Chuckie Shumer, Lamar stayed away. As for Corker...this clown voted to allow himself to start a war against Syria over the Labor Day weekend. 'Nuff said.

So, Senator Cruz, thank you. At least you stood up, and more of us than you suspect will remember you for it.

Ooooops! Hey, Mr. President, If You Spy On Other Heads Of State, They Will Publicly Slam-Dunk You

Like Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff just did today.

That pesky Snowden carried away and then released information proving that the eager beavers at the NSA had been intercepting her emails.

Massah Obama promised an investigation, which will go like this:

Phone call (ring-ring) 'National Security Agency'

Duh Prez: Hey, you know your way 'round there. Anybody spying on the Brazilians?

NSA receptionist: Why, no, I haven't heard of anything like that.

Duh Prez: OK, thanks! Bye-bye!

In case Himself hasn't gotten the memo, Brazil is a huge country rapidly developing into a huge wealthy country. He might wish to pay attention.

And not go out of his way to piss them off.

Radical Islam Harvests One More Victim...

This young man from Alabama listened to the siren song of Islamic fundamentalism, and ended up dying in a shoot-out with estranged members of his sect.

Multi-lingual, obviously bright and ambitious--what might have become of his life had he not made those tragic choices.

Some will crow 'good riddance', etc. etc. etc.

OS, as the parent of children about this young man's age, finds himself grieving the loss of a life that might have been.

US Consulate in Afghanistan Attacked, At Least Until the White House Gets The Spin Right

It is comforting to know that White House staffers have been up all night, scouring YouTube for a video to blame for this 'incident'.

From ABC News:

The American Consulate in the western Afghanistan city of Herat, came under attack early this morning, the U.S. State Department confirms. 

The attack began around 6 a.m. local time when militants drove to the front of the consulate's gate. Once they reached the check point, the militants began attacking the consulate's perimeter security officers, possibly firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. Shortly after, the entire truck exploded, damaging the front gate of the consulate, according to State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. 

Non-security staff at the consulate immediately took shelter while American and contractor security personnel fought with the militants, who had breached the compound, Harf said in a statement. Some of the attackers, according to Harf, appeared to be wearing suicide bombs.

"Full details are not known of the extent of the attack at this point, but the attack is currently over," Harf said. 

If that fails, they always have a backup plan: blame it on George Bush.

Peter Van Buren Shares 'A Child's Treasury Of Tweets' On Syria And Obama

They're here--a parade of grim humor, funny in its grim way because it is true.

A few notables to share here:

The question no journalist will ask Obama: Mr. President, if you use the military again, tell me how this ends?

Iran warned the U.S. twice in 2012 that Syrian rebels the U.S. supports have chemical weapons of their own.

Russia proposes Syria turn over chem weapons to avoid war. Predicting U.S. will claim Syria can’t be trusted in 5, 4, 3, 2…

When Obama said “There is no NSA spying on Americans,” he lied. But it’s cooool if you trust him on #Syria …

When Obama talks about the dead children in Syria, do ask him why Syria is a crisis but North Korean labor camps are not even mentioned.

And...perhaps the best...

日本の歴史の本で発見：”パールハーバー：。ただ空爆、地上の歩兵を持つ” (Found in the Japanese archives: “Pearl Harbor: Just an airstrike, with no boots on the ground.”)

The Winner Of The Nobel Peace Prize And The Nation That Has Finally Had Enough Of Him

Duh Prez is beginning to understand what his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright--you know, the one in whose church Obama participated for years, whom Obama claimed he didn't know--was talking about in his expression 'Chickens Come Home To Roost'.

A year ago today, Al Qaeda forces (the organization Himself claimed he had on the run) overran the consulate in Benghazi, in a carefully planned attack. They killed four of our people. Obama and company let them die rather than admit the attack was happening.

Then Himself lied about it. To us. On the White House lawn, which We The People own. In front of the UN. He made certain Susan Rice lied about it on all the Sunday talk shows--same script, every show. It was, to quote his hero Teddy Kennedy, 'Lie after lie after lie after lie.' Then he made sure the full truth was buried as completely as possible. It's now just beginning to leak out, finally, a year later.

We witnessed Miz Hillary Clinton shouting at the Senate Committee 'What, in the end, does it MATTER?!!' Pounding the table in frustration as she realized the BS she was peddling on behalf of Himself simply was not being believed.

After all, we won the The Election? Isn't that all that really matters?

Well, Mizz Hillary, it does matter, far more than anyone's election.

Subsequently, we have learned that Himself employed the IRS as the enforcement and harassment arm of the 2012 campaign.

We learned that journalists were targeted for criminal investigation, for simply doing their jobs.

We learned that journalists who defied the Official Version of Events About The Sequester, such as Bob Woodard, were targeted for public attack by His pack of journalistic hounds.

We learned that Himself's NSA had basically destroyed the idea of private communications in this country. OS understands that he now writes these words at a real risk.

We learned that Himself feels free to blatantly disregard any law that Himself finds inconvenient to his purposes, even if it's a law Himself demanded be passed, like ObamaCare.

We learned that when he finds it politically inconvenient to carry out his role as head of Executive branch, to see that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully defended and enforced, he simply does as he wishes. Thus, the DOJ's refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court.

We learned that Himself believes he holds the power to wage war upon other nations without any need to refer to the Constitution under which he was elected and sworn in. If he doesn't like what's going on in (fill in the blank), Himself can bomb the bejeezus out of the place, and We The People are entitle to no voice in the matter. We're simply here to provide the money and children for His military ambitions.

We have all, on left and right, learned that this man considers Himself to be king, and that any lie will do as long as Himself gets his way.

Himself seem shocked to find that the nation has finally had enough of Himself. The blowback on his plans to take us into yet another war in the Middle East was huge. There is no telling how many times the phone melted down in his hand when even his most loyal syncophants in Congress called the White House.

Finally, it obvious the Emporer is stark raving nekkid.

This interview of Gregory Hicks conducted by ABC's George Stephanopoulus was aired Sunday morning, directly after the usual roundtable discussion by the usual talking heads, all of whom expressed great reservations, even if they supported the idea of bombing the bejeezus out of Syria.

It tells the world that from the very beginning, the State Department, and one can easily conclude the White House, knew that this had nothing/zilch/zero to do with anyone's YouTube video.

George doesn't dare look at the camera and say, 'Obama is a serial liar'. He'll lose too many invitations to AllTheRightParties. So, he does something even better. He lets Greg Hicks tell the truth, and lets us compare Obama's and Hillary's version of events with the truth.

Even George, the most craven of Obama worshippers, has had enough, it appears.

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