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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/27/2013 7:08:25 PM
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/27/2013 7:59:11 PM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Recommended By TideGlider zoltaneering Respond to of 224748

Does your post have any purpose other than fill space so that you can get paid for pimping , or are you just diverting the thread again?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/28/2013 10:23:07 AM
From: locogringo	3 Recommendations Recommended By John lorne TideGlider Respond to of 224748

Does Obama know if he's president, or was that kept from him too?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/28/2013 11:08:39 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bill TideGlider Woody_Nickels Respond to of 224748

CBS This Morning: Florida Woman will pay 10x more thanks to Obamacare… 8 scoop

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/28/2013 11:10:25 AM
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Joe Wilson was right Obama did LIE

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10/28/2013 11:49:19 AM

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Tales from the Virtual Waiting Room

By Mark Steyn
October 28, 2013 6:51 AM

In my weekend column on Obamacare, I mentioned CGI’s involvement with the Canadian Government’s most notorious flop of recent years – the national firearms registry. The database simply could not be fixed, to the point where CGI were commissioned to build a new, parallel database, which never worked, either. John Fund’s column this morning suggests that IT guys take a similar view of Obamacare’s database (it’s not a “website” problem, in that whether you apply by phone, fax, USPS, Western Union or pigeon post, in the end someone has to process it using the same system that online users can’t make work). John includes this story:

Ben Simo, a former president of the Association for Software Testing, says he now has “zero trust” in Healthcare.gov. He had started an by Lhite Network">application on the site for a family member but abandoned the application, he wrote on his blog. The status screen showed that the application was left “in progress,” but then he received a notification that his application had been processed and his eligibility results were available. “How is it that my application was processed when I did not submit the application?”

When you don’t complete your Amazon purchase, that’s usually the end of it. But not with government:

Not only did they process an by Lhite Network">application I did not submit, the letter says they referred my application to a state agency — a state agency with which I did not authorize them to share any information.

And, unlike buying a book at Amazon, when a government website goes awry, it has potentially life-changing consequences:

“The decision letter I received says that I have ten days to appeal any decisions or I will be ineligible for coverage in the future,” Simo says. “Now, they’ve put me in a position that I have to get Healthcare.gov and a state agency to collaborate to withdraw the by Lhite Network">applicationI never submitted.”

Good luck with that.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (161454)	10/28/2013 1:37:05 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

8,000 Washington State Obamacare applicants about to get a nasty surprise - See more at: conservativeintel.com Another issue of questionable data was disclosed Friday afternoon by Washington State, which revealed that 8,000 enrollees and applicants on its state-run Obamacare marketplace were told they were eligible for higher tax credits to offset the cost of their insurance than they actually qualified for. Washington said that in some cases its exchanges was transmitting those applicants’ monthly incomes to the federal data hub — which verifies subsidy eligibility — as opposed to annual incomes, which resulted in the erroneously high subsidy calculations. The problem has since been fixed, and Washington is in the process of notifying all of the affected people to give them the correct tax credit amounts. According to the state government, this doesn’t affect people who were enrolled in Medicaid. So in short, a lot of people mistakenly thought they were getting free health care because of a computer error, when in fact they are probably going to have to pay the full Obamacare price, or at least a good chunk of it. - See more at: conservativeintel.com