Nebraska Woman Dropped from Three Different Obamacare Health Insurance Plans.

by Robert Janicki

Pamela Weldin's story is just one anecdote of what could be a tsunami of such results in the coming days and months of Obamacare across America in 2015.  Her third and latest Obamacare non-profit health insurance carrier has been taken over by the state insurance agency.  58 year old Pamela Weldin is now forced to once again seek out an Obamacare approved health insurance plan.  

I cannot imagine the magnitude of the emotional frustration, turmoil and personal disruption to Ms. Weldin's life and medical experiences as she tries to make sense of who, among her current medical providers, will take Obamacare insurance and which institutions and specialists in her local area will also take whatever Obamacare insurance she can obtain.

One medical specialty group that I see twice a year for a checkup simply does not accept CaliforniaCare (the state version of Obamacare).  Another provider, my dermatologist, has limited the number of CaliforniaCare patients he will add to his patient load, because of the poor reimbursement rates of CaliforniaCare.  I don't know if either of these two medical specialty groups even take MediCal (the California version of federal Medicaid) since they reimburse at a lower rate than even most Obamacare or CaliforniaCare insurance plans.

Moving on, lets look to Obamacare Co-ops around the country and where they stand and their financial condition.

Co-ops are no stranger to the insurance market, and lawmakers hoped the nonprofit insurance companies would help infuse competition and choice into markets where there were limited options.

However, the co-ops created under the law would be slightly different from those already in existence—to help the new insurers get off the ground and meet state reserve requirements, the federal government provided $2 billion in startup and solvency loans. 

One Year After Obamacare’s Implementation, Taxpayer-Funded Co-Ops Struggle to Survive

Twenty-three co-ops serving 26 states were ultimately licensed and received federal loans including CoOportunity.

According to the latest quarterly filings, more than 520,000 people enrolled in insurance coverage through the co-ops through September.

An analysis conducted by The Daily Signal earlier this month, though, found that all but one of the co-ops experienced operating losses through September.  

It becomes obvious that many of these co-ops will either go bankrupt, thus seriously  jeopardizing Obamacare or taxpayers will, once again, be on the hook to subsidize these co-ops.  That's the story of liberal programs, which can't stand on their own abilities.  Government must step in and subsidize these failures with taxpayers funds to avoid collapse.

If a government program, such as Obamacare, cannot survive on its own financing without a taxpayer subsidy, it should be abolished.  Of course this is political heresy, since so many other federal programs would have to be canceled with this concept. 

Attaboy Barry....

via RightWing News

I did it again, contrary to good sense....

by Robert Janicki

On Wednesday, I watched and listened to President Obama once again publicly support Islam in a rambling nonsensical rant, as if he were lecturing the rest of us for not embracing Islam as the religion of peace. I'm sorry, but I will never embrace Islam as a religion, let alone a religion of peace. The historical facts speak to the contrary. Islam is far more a paramilitary political ideology than a religion. What religion in world history was founded by a brutal and savage murderer of his opponents?

The historical record is undeniable. It's Islam. 

I'm tired of Obama's haughty elitist demeanor in talking down to those who have legitimate disagreements with Islam. It's so typical of liberals to look down at those who oppose them, as if we are ignorant or stupid low life cretins or Neanderthals. Obama's comments were a sickening and rambling nonsensical lecture. He stumbled, mumbled and tried to place the blame for radical Islam, in part, on the victims of radical Islamist Jihadists. His solution was more a sociological treatise than facing the reality of radical Islamist Jihadists and their responsibility for their own actions. 

Of course Obama went on to blame ISIS for hijacking Islam. I take exception to that thought. ISIS has not perverted Islam. Every thing that ISIS does is clearly stated in the Quran, especially the later and much more strident and virulent verses, which supersede similar earlier verses. The fact that ISIS has dwelled upon the most fundamental views expressed in the Quran does not mean ISIS has hijacked Islam. They have simply taken a different approach to the ultimate objective of Islam. ISIS is certainly a death cult that is interested in bringing the end times of the Apocalypse to fruition.

Creating economic opportunities for ISIS members is nonsense. ISIS fighters are making much more money than the opposing military force aligned against them. That fact alone destroys the Obama administration's thought that we should be doing more economically for these poor misguided souls, giving them alternatives to joining ISIS. 

I'm sorry, but that thought simply doesn't take into account the greater psychological drive of ISIS fighters that have bought into the end times of the Apocalypse and their supposed ascension to meet Allah and their 72 virgins.

That's like saying John Hinckley would not have tried to assassinate President Reagan, if he only had better economic opportunities in his life.

Inaugural Inductees into The DMF "Snark Hall of Fame"

After much drinking, debate, discussion and pocketing of bribes  counting and recounting of votes, the soon to be highly coveted DMF/MFNS Inaugural 'Snark Hall of Fame' Awards are today announced.   Honored are 3, for their wit, insight, writing and photoshop talents, as well as their amazing ability to avoid being scooped up by the secret Service.....

MOTUS

All The Right Snark

Earl of Taint

Is Hillary Starting Her Courtship with the Left Wing Fringe?

Democrat Party’s Far Left Cheers Clinton-Warren Meeting

McClatchy

The left wing of the Democratic party cheered news Tuesday that presumed presidential nominee Hillary Clinton recently met with progressive hero, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Clinton and Warren, who has has focused on the issue of income equality, held a private, one-on-one meeting at Clinton’s Washington home, the New York Times reported. The meeting came at Clinton’s invitation.

Warren, a Massachusetts freshman who was appointed to Senate leadership this year, is being lobbied to run for president next year. But she has repeatedly said she is not interested.

“It is positive news that Hillary Clinton is meeting with Elizabeth Warren and other progressives -- and it will be even more positive news if economic populist thinkers are appointed to her inner circle,”said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “The way for Democrats to win the general election in 2016 is by actively campaigning on an Elizabeth Warren-style economic message -- big ideas like expanding Social Security benefits, a national goal of debt-free college, and stopping Wall Street banks from wrecking our economy again.

One must remember this:  Elizabeth Warren-style economics is Barack Obama Economics repackaged.

Socialist Lawmakers Sojourn to Castro's Utopian Cuba

Nancy Pelosi Leads a Democrat House Delegation 

Pelosi Arrives Ready to Make Deals

Politico - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi traveled with a congressional congregation to Cuba on Tuesday.

The trip is the first official House delegation to travel to the island nation since President Barack Obama announced late last year an easing of trade restrictions with the Castro regime.

“This delegation travels to Cuba in friendship and to build upon the announcement of U.S. normalization of relations and other initiatives announced by President Obama,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. “This delegation will work to advance the U.S.-Cuba relationship and build on the work done by many in the Congress over the years, especially with respect to agriculture and trade.”

The delegation includes Democratic Reps. Eliot Engel of New York, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Collin Peterson of Minnesota, Anna Eshoo of California, Nydia Velázquez of New York, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Steve Israel of New York and David Cicilline of Rhode Island. Engel is the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Rumor Has It Hillary Loved The Fifty Shades of Gray Movie

Top Presidential Experts call Obama 'Overrated' and One of the Worst By 3-1

Word is He's a Pretty Crappy Golfer Too....

Just weeks after Foreign Policy magazine announced the results of its 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges naming John Kerry the Least effective U.S. Secretary of State of the past 50 years, the Liberal think tank The Brookings Institution  issues a survey naming Barack Obama as one of the non-great Presidents.

This should not come as news except to your typical mouth breathing progtard....  

Washington Examiner

He’s still viewed as a nice guy, but less than two years before he wraps up two terms in the Oval Office presidential scholars don’t believe President Obama ranks anywhere near history’s greats, making him a mediocre 18th in the line of best to worst.

According to a Brookings Institution survey of American Political Science Association scholars, they put Obama on the worst, not best, list by a margin of nearly three-to-one. Here's how Brookings wrote it: “Those who view Obama as one of the worst American presidents outnumber those who view him as one of the best by nearly a 3-1 margin.”

And, the friendly think tank added, “nearly twice as many respondents view Obama as over-rated than do those who consider him under-rated.”

Overall, Brookings said, “Few think of Obama as an excellent president, while many more rate his presidency quite low, with the bulk of experts appearing to give him a passing grade but not one that would get him on the Dean’s list.”

The survey was sent to 391 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents & Executive Politics section, the premier organization of experts of the American presidency, and 162 participated online.

Brookings noted that the polls on Obama’s greatness have never been high, and their survey of presidential experts helps to explain why.

First, they find Obama polarizing. “One area where there is significant expert consensus about the president, however, concerns how polarizing he is viewed as being — only George W. Bush was viewed as more a more polarizing president,” said the blog post.

They also have a muddled view of his military, legislative and diplomatic skills, a far fall from the praise he received early in his first term when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

“It could be worse for Obama,” adds Brookings. “Barring unforeseen scandal, he’s unlikely to become significantly less popular, and as he enters his post-presidency, he is likely to experience the same slow rise up the greatness polls George W. Bush has had. Whether that is a sluggish climb or more noteworthy, as the case has been with Truman and George H.W. Bush, remains to be seen, but there is still plenty of time left in his presidency to lay the foundation for future claims on the empty spot to the right of Lincoln on Mount Rushmore’s granite façade.”

I know I'm not alone by saying I'm not holding my breath on the Mt. Rushmore thing.....