{"id":11186,"date":"2013-10-09T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-09T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:06:14","slug":"the_obamacare_rollout_disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/09\/the_obamacare_rollout_disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obamacare Rollout Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: From the NBC website, First Read. It is NBC News\u2019 version of an early-morning summary of the news, supposedly the news. NBC\u2019s version of what\u2019s happening, what has happened, what\u2019s important. There are many paragraphed items there, and here is one about four or five into it. <\/p>\n

“Another tough health-care story for the White House: Another day, another story about how the White House was warned for weeks, if not months, that healthcare.gov had flaws. This one comes courtesy of the Washington Post: ‘Major insurers, state health-care officials and Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems, according to people familiar with the conversations. Despite those warnings and intense criticism from Republicans, the White House proceeded with an Oct. 1 launch.\u2019 The White House continues to claim all of its web site problems are simply traffic related but there are clearly plenty of folks who think, it\u00c2\u2019s more than that, that it was designed poorly.”<\/p>\n

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What does this mean? It means that the regime knew that HealthCare.gov wasn\u2019t ready. They knew it couldn\u2019t handle the load. It also knew that its structure was flawed. Even if it could handle the load, it was not right. They went ahead and did it anyway because it doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ve gotten blue in the face, and I know if you\u2019re a 24-year-old frightened woman, this is gonna scare you, but the fact of the matter is Obama himself doesn\u2019t care about details like this. He doesn\u2019t care what it ends up costing people. All that matters is what he will say about it and what will be reported about what he says and therefore what you will be told to believe. <\/p>\n

The reality is he doesn\u2019t care. He really doesn\u2019t, and he hasn\u2019t for a long time. Because Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It\u2019s about statism. It\u2019s about expanding the government. It\u2019s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care. And that purpose has been served. It\u2019s the law. So now it doesn\u2019t matter whether it works. These are little details that we\u2019ll flesh out as it unrolls. It didn\u2019t matter whether it was ready. It didn\u2019t matter whether all the promises made were kept. That is irrelevant. Selling it, getting it passed and signed into law was all that mattered. Ditto the sequester. Ditto anything else. <\/p>\n

The president hasn\u2019t told the truth about much, and yesterday in his press conference he continued. The whoppers yesterday, folks, I can\u2019t let go of this. He talked yesterday in his press conference about the default and how it\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019re not gonna default. We take in sufficiently more money every month via tax revenue than we are required to pay to service the debt. That\u2019s about $18 billion. And we take in $250 billion. We\u2019re nowhere near a default, even if we don\u2019t raise the debt ceiling. He knows it, but it doesn\u2019t matter. The truth is not what matters. What matters is what he can make you think, along with his media friends, of the Republicans. That\u2019s all that matters. <\/p>\n

When it comes to Obamacare, what it is, in reality, is irrelevant. The fact that it doesn\u2019t work doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s the law now. It\u2019s an achievement. It\u2019s an accomplishment the Democrats have sought for 50 years. Doesn\u2019t work. Even the media is on to it. Washington Examiner<\/a>: “Obamacare Still Broken: Website says try back ‘in a few days\u2019 — Over a week after Obamacare kicked in, the HealthCare.gov computer system is still blocking insurance applicants due to major glitches and traffic, prompting a live chat room host on the government\u00c2\u2019s website to suggest that it would be best to ‘wait a few days.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Secrets,” that\u2019s the name of the column here, “attempted again on Wednesday to enter the system but within two minutes a red line crossed the computer screen reading: ‘Important. Your account couldn\u2019t be created at this time. The system is unavailable.'”<\/p>\n

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Another story from something called The Federalist<\/a>: “Obamacare Rollout A Case Study In Government Ineptitude.” Let me just read you three pull quotes from this story. The first one. “The HealthCare.gov snafu illustrates the core incompetency of the federal government: because of how it is structured and who it attracts, it is simply incapable of doing much of anything that the private sector can do. If the private tech sector\u00c2\u2019s motto is ‘Faster, better, cheaper,\u2019 then the federal government\u00c2\u2019s would have to be, ‘Slower, worse, and crazy expensive.'”<\/p>\n

Second pull quote. “So what gives? How is it that the president who gave us an unquestionably brilliant campaign tech team couldn\u00c2\u2019t deliver the goods for a simple government-run website that lists health care plans? ‘It\u00c2\u2019s pretty simple,\u2019 one federal IT contractor told me. ‘The government is not exactly hiring the best of the best to manage and develop these projects. It\u00c2\u2019s not like they\u00c2\u2019re bringing in people from Facebook or Google.\u2019 The private sector gets the best, and the government gets the rest.”<\/p>\n

Another pull quote. “Another major problem goes beyond the tech talent itself to the people who manage the developers. One common complaint I heard was unclear, yet constantly changing contract requirements. ‘I can\u00c2\u2019t tell you how many times I\u00c2\u2019d be 90 percent done with one requested task, only to have it changed at the last minute to something completely different,\u2019 the contractor told me. ‘Most of the time I never had the chance to go back and finish that last 10 percent.'” <\/p>\n

It is an utter disaster. <\/p>\n

The Weekly Standard: “Obamacare Marketplace: Personal Data Can Be Used For ‘Law Enforcement and Audit Activities.'” Obamacare has not-so-hidden provisions that allow them to give all of your health information to the police and to the IRS anytime they want. And all your e-mails to Obamacare about private matters, those will be shared by the government as well. <\/p>\n

Jacksonville, Illinois, Journal-Courier news: “Growing concerns about identity theft and fraud have led the Illinois Department of Insurance to issue a public warning, just as the new health insurance exchanges enter their implementation phase. Concern focuses on those charged with assisting Illinoisans with enrollment to the new health insurance exchanges, the so-called ‘navigators.\u2019 … This will give navigators access to individuals\u00c2\u2019 personally identifiable information: the information necessary for identity theft.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an utter disaster. <\/p>\n

CBS News has piled on now. Washington Post has piled on. NBC, at least they\u2019re reporting it. They\u2019re not condemning it, they\u2019re just reporting, and they\u2019re concerned, they\u2019re worried. See, these are the true believers. The Obama media people actually believe this was designed to work. They actually think it\u2019s gonna be the best thing going. They actually think it\u2019s gonna lower costs. They actually think it\u2019s gonna ensure the 30 million uninsured. They actually believe all the crap that they\u2019re told, because they\u2019re good people. They have big hearts. And they have good intentions. And they have lots of compassion. <\/p>\n

They believe all this tripe. They believe the government does it better than anybody else. They believe the government should. So here comes a smooth talker like Obama promising the moon, they eat it up. Then when it doesn\u2019t happen, they\u2019re genuinely worried. They don\u2019t want their guy to look bad. They don\u2019t want Obama to look bad. They don\u2019t want the Democrat Party to look bad. This is not the way it was supposed to be. And they\u2019re like anybody else, they go to any website, private sector, and it works. Amazon, iTunes, you name it, they go there, it works. This doesn\u2019t. This just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Ashley Dionne is a 26-year-old Michigan University student. She sent a letter to Dennis Prager, my old buddy from Los Angeles. She said, “My name is Ashley Dionne and I\u00c2\u2019m a 26-year-old recent graduate from Michigan. The phony Obamacare signup poster boy made me want to send a message about how Obamacare is really affecting people.<\/p>\n

“I graduated from The University of Michigan in 2009. In my state, this used to mean something, but even with a bachelor\u00c2\u2019s I was told I was too educated and wouldn\u00c2\u2019t stay. I watched as kids with GEDs and high school diploma\u00c2\u2019s took the low-paying jobs for which I applied. I went back to school and got a second degree and finally found work at a gym. I work nights and only get 32 hours a week for eight dollars an hour. I\u00c2\u2019m unable to find a second job at this time. I have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate from $75 a month for full coverage on my ‘Young Adult Plan,\u2019 to $319 a month. After $6,000 in deductibles, of course.”<\/p>\n

What Ashley Dionne is describing here is what happened to her when she left the nest, because all kids eventually become 27 years old, and at that point they\u2019re no longer covered by mom and dad. They are finding that with Obamacare they\u2019re going broke. And this woman wrote Prager a note about it. <\/p>\n

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“‘Liberals claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can\u00c2\u2019t afford to support myself, let alone older generations and people not willing to work at all. This law has raped my future. It will keep me and kids my age from having a future at all. This is the real face of Obamacare and it isn\u00c2\u2019t pretty.\u2019 In a statement to Campus Reform, Dionne clarified her reason for writing the letter. ‘I wanted to get my message about Obamacare out, because I\u2019m being directly and negatively affected by it, but I know it\u2019s not just me. Obamacare will make my life more difficult. It will hurt more people than it will help.\u2019 Ashley Dionne is a 2009 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 2012 graduate of Baker College.”<\/p>\n

She can\u2019t afford it. She can\u2019t find work that pays more than eight bucks an hour and 32 hours a week. The new America. I don\u2019t know if she voted for Obama or not. It doesn\u2019t say. It doesn\u2019t sound like she did. It sounds like she was predisposed to knowing what this was all about but maybe didn\u2019t realize how bad it was, but I\u2019m just guessing. I don\u2019t know who she voted for. I probably shouldn\u2019t speculate.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, do you remember Maxine Waters? She was on I think CNN, Roland Martin still worked there then, and now he\u2019s somewhere else at like Media One or Media One and a half, I don\u2019t know where he is, but he was at CNN, and she was a guest on his show, and she said — and we had the audio — Cookie, you don\u2019t need to go get it. She said (paraphrasing), “The president has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. It\u2019s gonna be very, very powerful. And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it\u2019s never been done before. And whoever runs for president on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They\u2019re going to go down with that database, and the concerns of those people, because they can\u2019t get around it. And he, Obama, he\u2019s been very smart. It\u2019s very powerful, what he\u2019s leaving in place.” <\/p>\n

You remember that? You know, Maxine screws up every now and then and let\u2019s the whole cat out of the bag. She\u2019s talking to the oil executives one day. “We want to take over your companies.” They had to send the mayor of Washington to her apartment, say, “Shut up. We don\u2019t say that in public.” But she did. As I\u2019m listening to Joanne talk about all this, I\u2019m remembering Maxine Waters talking about this massive Obama database that he\u2019s setting up that nobody\u2019s ever had before. The point that she was making, any Democrat that runs against him is gonna just be humiliated and embarrassed if they try to unseat him, \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna know every bit of dirt that there is. And then he\u2019s gonna have this thing in place, he\u2019s gonna leave it to the Democrat Party when he leaves, and they\u2019re gonna have access to it. <\/p>\n

We just learned from The Politico, when you go to HealthCare.gov and you\u2019re just looking around, one of the first things you have to do is set up an account. And once you do that, you can never delete it. Politico is reporting, once you set up your account, and that means your user name and password and all of your vitals, that\u2019s what\u2019s setting up the account is, all the questions, you can never delete your account. And everybody\u2019s signing up at HealthCare.gov. This is the database that Maxine\u2019s talking about. HealthCare.gov, you set up your account, and you can\u2019t delete it. It\u2019s your permanent record, folks. Even if you just go there to play around and see what this thing is, before you can do that, you have to set up your account, and once that\u2019s done, you can\u2019t delete it. It is there forever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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