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In a move worthy of a Third World banana chandelier shades republic, President Obama used his extraconstitutional lawmaking wand and secretly extended the Dec. 23 Obamacare enrollment cutoff by 24 hours, usurping the authority of Congress.
This is only the latest in a long series chandelier shades of capricious, imperial, impeachable, chandelier shades ad hoc adjustments that the 44th president has made to his creation. Each and every unilateral abridgment or abrogation of the Affordable Care Act, as monstrous as the statute may be, is an affront to the rule of law that is supposed to prevail in our constitutional republic. This rule by presidential decree chandelier shades creates legal and business uncertainty for insurers and the insured, as well as for employers and all health care market participants.
Not surprisingly, chandelier shades public support for Obamacare chandelier shades continues to fall, dropping five whole percentage points in a month to a new record low, according to a CNN/ORC poll. Barely a third of the public — 35 percent – now supports the law, down from 40 percent late last month, and just 16 percent of respondents said they expect their families will be better off when most of the law takes effect in 2014.
The completely unnecessary, mandated chaos of the Obamacare rollout is business as usual for embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who continues struggling to put out fire after fire in what seems destined chandelier shades to be a futile effort to make an unworkable program somehow work.
“Over the weekend, government chandelier shades officials and outside IT contractors chandelier shades working on the online marketplace s computer system made a software change that automatically gives people chandelier shades a Jan. 1 start date for their new coverage as long as they enroll by 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve.”
The chandelier shades Obama administration apparently rationalized the one-day extension away, claiming it was needed in case the perpetually malfunctioning website strains under the weight of a sudden traffic boost from last-minute enrollees.
Anticipating high demand and the fact that consumers may be enrolling from multiple time zones, chandelier shades we have taken steps to make sure that those who select a plan through tomorrow will get coverage for Jan. 1, an HHS spokeswoman said yesterday.
In the nightmarish swirl of Kafkaesque arbitrariness that surrounds President Obama’s much touted signature legislative achievement, insurance companies reportedly won’t chandelier shades be able to refuse late registrants. Last week the administration decreed that individuals whose insurance plans were canceled may receive an exemption from the individual mandate imposed by the Affordable Care Act.
It’s abundantly clear that President Obama is making this up from finely manicured golf courses and vacation spots as he goes along. Obama reportedly was briefed on HHS’s chandelier shades latest efforts to keep the Obamacare website operational.
A spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) said approximately 850,000 people had visited the website as of 2 p.m. on Monday and that the alleged crush of web traffic was expected to continue the rest of the day. “About 60,000 people were instructed through the system to provide an email address so they could be notified to return chandelier shades at a later time,” The Hill newspaper reports.
Is the visitors figure true? The administration has been caught lying over and over and over again about Obamacare’s so-called successes so there is no way to know if the figures are accurate without conducting a forensic cyber-audit or issuing chandelier shades congressional subpoenas (which the administration would probably ignore anyway).
And when the administration hasn’t been lying outright, it has been known to carefully parse, calculating its statements to mislead the public. That nearly a million visits to the website were reportedly recorded doesn’t provide any indication of how many individuals actually applied for or succeeded in obtaining health insurance coverage. chandelier shades
President Obama claimed on Friday that more than a half million people had signed up at HealthCare.gov in the first three weeks of this month. According to The Hill ‘s reckoning, this would bring the total number of individuals enrolled in Obamacare to a bit over 1 million, far short of the 3.3 million people the administration hoped would jump aboard the sinking ship by year’s end.
“The administration also needs consumers who have enrolled for coverage chandelier shades to make their first premium payments to finalize the process,” chandelier shades according to the newspaper. “Those payments were due by Jan. 1, but many insurers, at the request of the administration, are now accepting payments as late as Jan. 10.”
Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of the recently published book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpa
