In President Obama’s world, words and promises are meaningless. He has altered the language, mandates, and parameters of his signature legislation Obamacare, otherwise known as the unaffordable ‘Affordable Care Act’, so many times that one would be left to wonder what exactly does ‘law of the land’ mean. After all, when Texas Senator Ted Cruz attempted to filibuster back in October 2013 in order to stop implementation of a law that he believed to not only be unconstitutional, but not ready for primetime if implemented, Obama proclaimed that the train of Obamacare was going forward and there was no way to stop it.
Since that date, the train of Obamacare has become more of a train wreck as we have heard countless stories of people losing the insurance and doctors that Obama told them they could keep. The train wreck became one that you could not stop looking at, as frightening as it was, as Obama began unconstitutionally changing what he previously deemed as ‘settled law’ in hopes of salvaging what was fast becoming a mangled mess.
As the nation neared Obama’s self-imposed March 31st deadline for enrollment, one thing became clear. The Obama regime was not going to reach its initial goal of 7 million enrolled. In fact, not only did they need 7 million enrolled in order for the government takeover of 1/6 of the American economy to potentially be financially solvent, they needed 40% of those enrolled to be from the key demographic area of 18 – 35 year olds. As of last week, there were only 6 million enrolled in Obamacare and less than 25% were from that key demographic area. Even then, the numbers given by the Obama regime were inflated since they were counting as enrollees individuals who had created a Healthcare.gov profile, perhaps also looked at plans, maybe even placed a potential plan in their shopping cart, but never sealed the deal with a finalized payment.
Critics of Obamacare likened the regime’s counting of such individuals as similar to Amazon.com counting as a sale a book that was left in someone’s shopping cart without the buyer clicking ‘proceed to checkout’ and ‘place your order’. If a private company pulled some of the shenanigans with funny numbers like the Obama regime has, they would likely be hauled before Congress for a hearing.
On Tuesday night, as Obama approached his self-imposed deadline with less than a week left, he quietly came out with a decision in an early evening news dump. Obama has graciously decided to give those who have not yet completed purchase of Obamacare a little more time to finalize their purchase. The real kicker is, similar to people being granted the ability by edict to claim hardship in not being able to afford the so-called ‘Affordable Care Act,’ Obama is going by the honor system with allowing people to check a box that they ‘tried’ to enroll by the 31st, but could not, for whatever reason, complete the purchase.
The newly imposed deadline by Barack Obama isn’t quite a deadline at all. People have until ‘about mid-April’ to finalize their purchase and the government will not try to determine if you’re telling the truth or not.
According to the Washington Post, Obama is graciously offering an extension in preparation for a potential massive surge of individuals onto Healthcare.gov.
Administration officials said the accommodation is an attempt to prepare for a possible surge of people trying to sign up in the final days before the deadline. Such a flood could leave some people unable to get through the system.
“We are . . . making sure that we will be ready to help consumers who may be in line by the deadline to complete enrollment — either online or over the phone,” said Julie Bataille, director of the office of communications for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the federal health-care exchange.
The extra time will not be restricted, though, to people who wait until the last minute to try to sign up. Although no one will be asked why they need an extension, the idea is to help people whose applications have gotten held up because of the Web site’s technical problems — or who haven’t been able to get the system to calculate subsidies to help them pay for coverage.
According to a Health and Human Services official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about decisions that have not been made public, an exact time frame for this extension has not been set, and depends in part on how many people request it. Nor have officials decided precisely how long people will have to select a health plan after they get the extra time.
Perhaps Obama is recognizing the programming shortcomings of his signature legislation’s website with its tendency to be non-functional. Or, it could be that he’s hoping that the two weeks he’s spent targeting millennials with an embarrassing last-minute push for enrollment will all of a sudden produce the enrollment numbers that he has hoped for.
Even if this extension to a non-deadline deadline bolsters his faux enrollment numbers to 7 million people, Obama himself said over and over again that America had 46 million people uninsured. These people, according to the president, were desperate for coverage. By his analysis, Americans should have been clamoring for coverage and flocking to Obamacare as their savior. Instead, the country has witnessed false figures related to enrollment from Obama and an estimated 5 million people, so far, who have lost the very insurance that they were promised they could keep.
One thing is certain, in Obama’s America, the law of the land is open to activist interpretation and supposedly ‘settled law’ is meaningless if it doesn’t work in favor of Obama’s quest to fundamentally transform America or if it could negatively affect the outcome for his party in the 2014 mid-terms.
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