Obamacare cost...

[Color Me Badd Fan]

300k people in Florida get a cancellation notice from their insurance. Mine is also forthcoming. The net effect of this law in its first year will be less people on insurance.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stor...insurance.aspx

[Moliere]

[Uncle Ted]

Obamacare ads... Featuring the young, clueless generation:




doyouGOTinsurance.com (DH is about to cry.)

[Uncle Ted]

It is not like the Obamacare website wasn't tested to see if it could handle a high number of users...

[...]
The secretary attributed some of the problems to "extremely high" volume, claiming nearly 20 million people came to the Obamacare website in the first three weeks after its launched. Yet only a fraction of those have signed up for new health care policies; Sebelius said Tuesday that 500,000 accounts had been created, but that doesn't mean all those people enrolled in a plan.

It's not like no one saw this coming. A number of insurance companies complained of problems ahead of the October 1 launch, and the website crashed during a test run although just a few hundred users were on it.


Despite the issues, the Obama administration went forward with the website.
[...]

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/22/po...html?hpt=hp_t1

so as long as no more than a few hundred users are on it then it should be good.

[Donuthole]

doyouGOTinsurance.com (DH is about to cry.)

Poor grammar is permissible, if not encouraged, when being used for parody. Those ads are not particularly funny, however.

[byu71]

Poor grammar is permissible, if not encouraged, when being used for parody. Those ads are not particularly funny, however.

They aren't really serious ads are they? I thought they were some spoof done by college students.

Of course on the other hand the Obama team is more tuned into college students than I am, maybe it does appeal to them. See now why I don't think they should be allowed to vote.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Aside from the fact the ads will be totally ineffective, I'm going to point out a couple other things:

1. "Good thing Mom made me get insurance. Now you can too." Before Obamacare, nothing stopped healthy douchebags in their late 20s, like those featured in these ads, from getting insurance. There's nothing "now you can too" about it. In fact, now it's become more expensive for gainfully employed men in their late 20s.

2. "Don't tap into that beer money to pay medical bills." No, tap into that beer money to pay for insurance that subsidizes sick, injured and older people. This line also perpetuates the idea that health insurance isn't insurance at all, it's prepaid healthcare, but I would say this ad and the one I saw on TV is worse -- it gives this idea that you're going to get something more out of health insurance than what you're putting in. Additionally, why shouldn't someone's most disposable part of their budget -- beer money -- go to paying for healthcare?

"Bros for life" lol.

[Uncle Ted]

Poor grammar is permissible, if not encouraged, when being used for parody. Those ads are not particularly funny, however.

They are not a parody but tax dollars at work.

[Donuthole]

They are not a parody but tax dollars at work.

Think about it. Try again.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Just when you thought the pinnacle of ineptitude was reached with Obama's handling of the Syria matter, the healthcare.gov website is launched with 1994 web capabilities. Then the Obama administration takes it to yet another level with these ads.

[Uncle Ted]

Think about it. Try again.

Oops... It's not a parody but someone's tax dollars at work.

[Lost Student]

Oops... It's not a parody but someone's tax dollars at work.

I believe this is what DH is alluding to:
rebecca-romijn-got-milk.jpg

[Jacob]

The latest is unbelievable. So the healthcare.gov website is now substantially underestimating premium costs because it is treating everybody like they are either 50 or 27. Nothing in between.

I have been shopping for myself and posting updates here. I mentioned that the rate for my family will increase by over $300 per month based on my current employer plan (where I am lumped in with less healthy people) and will double over what I could have purchased on the open market. Well, it's even worse that I thought.

healthcare.gov estimates that my premium would cost about $1,646. Go to the Blue Cross website, where they actually ask your birthdate, and the correct premium for the exact same plan is $1,993. Unreal. Now we are up to $24,000 per year to insure my young family. Or I can pay a $1,000 fine (1/2 of a month's premium) and sign up later if something catastrophic occurs. Gee, wonder which one I should do?

[smokymountainrain]

and sign up later if something catastrophic occurs. Gee, wonder which one I should do?

Explain this. So you have the catastrophic event, then you go sign up for insurance? In what world? I must be missing something.

[woot]

So what's the issue here? I mean other than Obama being the great Satan, obviously. Are we to assume that the website design company is owned by some staffer's cousin or something?