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supporting links to each point are in the article...
1. Obamacare will cost taxpayers $1.8 to $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years
2. At least 3.5 million Americans have already received health insurance cancellation notices
3. The now-infamous Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion to build
4. The New York Times says Obamacare "will leave out two-thirds of poor blacks and single mothers."
5. Tens of thousands of worker hours and jobs have already been cut due to Obamacare
6. Premiums will rise by 99% for young men and between 55% to 62% for young women
7. Obama promised no less than 23 times that "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
xuenchen
3. The now-infamous Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion to build
In testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56 million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”
That adds up to $174 million.
Although the Affordable Care Act has been law for three and a half years, one third of the funds going to the top contractors working on the federal exchanges were awarded in the six months before the new insurance marketplaces opened Oct. 1, a Bloomberg Government Analysis has found.
The torrent of late spending — almost $352 million of $1 billion in awards to the top 10 contractors — indicates the magnitude of the work still to be done as opening day approached, and helps explain the information technology problems that have dogged the exchange system since its launch. In a typical IT project, spending ramps up to a peak, then trails off during the final phase.
xuenchen
reply to post by MichaelPMaccabee
Of course that's only part of it.
Aunt Kathy is a known liar as well.
And, IMO, She could easily win a beauty contest called "Myth America".
Although the Affordable Care Act has been law for three and a half years, one third of the funds going to the top contractors working on the federal exchanges were awarded in the six months before the new insurance marketplaces opened Oct. 1, a Bloomberg Government Analysis has found.
The torrent of late spending — almost $352 million of $1 billion in awards to the top 10 contractors — indicates the magnitude of the work still to be done as opening day approached, and helps explain the information technology problems that have dogged the exchange system since its launch. In a typical IT project, spending ramps up to a peak, then trails off during the final phase.
Late IT Cash Surge Foreshadowed Health-Law Woes
4. The New York Times says Obamacare "will leave out two-thirds of poor blacks and single mothers."
MichaelPMaccabee
xuenchen
reply to post by MichaelPMaccabee
Of course that's only part of it.
Aunt Kathy is a known liar as well.
And, IMO, She could easily win a beauty contest called "Myth America".
Although the Affordable Care Act has been law for three and a half years, one third of the funds going to the top contractors working on the federal exchanges were awarded in the six months before the new insurance marketplaces opened Oct. 1, a Bloomberg Government Analysis has found.
The torrent of late spending — almost $352 million of $1 billion in awards to the top 10 contractors — indicates the magnitude of the work still to be done as opening day approached, and helps explain the information technology problems that have dogged the exchange system since its launch. In a typical IT project, spending ramps up to a peak, then trails off during the final phase.
Late IT Cash Surge Foreshadowed Health-Law Woes
Don't muddy the waters.
Not all IT costs related to the ACA are for the faulty website. Not even your own source says that.
MichaelPMaccabee
xuenchen
3. The now-infamous Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion to build
In testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56 million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”
That adds up to $174 million.
www.cnn.com...
Your list is only as strong as your weakest claim.
A Reuters review of government documents shows that the contract to build the federal Healthcare.gov online insurance website - key to President Obama's signature health care reform - tripled in potential total value to nearly $292 million as new money was assigned to the work beginning in April this year.
ummm....ok? Maybe I missed it, but what does this have to do with anything I said?
marg6043
reply to post by captaintyinknots
Here in my neck of the woods a welfare state in southern GA the majority of welfare recipients within the poor and needy are actually mostly African American and single mothers, they are out of the ACA and they will fall into Medicaid expansion something that GA is still debating how to deal with, because it means more local taxes and people in the productive class are sick and tired of it.
Then comes the issue of the exchanges, we have a monopoly with only one hospital so the rates will be higher in my area due to the fact that is not exchanges due to lack of competition.
captaintyinknots
I do love #4:
Note that the fact they are claiming is not that this statement is true, but that the New York Times said it.
This isnt even strong propaganda....weak, just weak.
4. The New York Times says Obamacare "will leave out two-thirds of poor blacks and single mothers."
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.
Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.
I agree with that 100%.
xuenchen
reply to post by captaintyinknots
I agree about "shady tactics" 100%.
The Administration needs to understand that.
MichaelPMaccabee
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3. The now-infamous Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion to build
In testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56 million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”
That adds up to $174 million.
www.cnn.com...
Your list is only as strong as your weakest claim.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.
Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.
SpaDe_
MichaelPMaccabee
xuenchen
3. The now-infamous Obamacare website cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion to build
In testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56 million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”
That adds up to $174 million.
www.cnn.com...
Your list is only as strong as your weakest claim.
Speaking of weakest links, you quote some text and then link to CNN which has an article that in their own words is an attempt to debunk Obamacare myths and has nothing to do with the quote. Out of context quotes are useless. Counts by Reuters have the costs well over $280 million as of April of this year.
A Reuters review of government documents shows that the contract to build the federal Healthcare.gov online insurance website - key to President Obama's signature health care reform - tripled in potential total value to nearly $292 million as new money was assigned to the work beginning in April this year.
Sourceedit on 11/6/2013 by SpaDe_ because: (no reason given)edit on 11/6/2013 by SpaDe_ because: (no reason given)