Obamacare 2014 predictions

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Fred Stiening

-Fewer than 5 million people will sign up for Obamacare
– TV will fill with sob stories of hospitals demanding $5k deductible in cash to treat people on free Obamacare if the problem is not life threatening
– BC/BS and others will invoke the “risk corridor” provision to demand payment for the mistakes in the actuarial assumptions – the numbe will be around $100 billion
– the House will refused to provide the money
– Insurers will terminate their individual policy underwriting and/or declare bankruptcy
– HHS will set up an emergency “temporary” government run insurance company based on the existing Medicare infrastructure

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27 Responses to Obamacare 2014 predictions

  1. Nidster says:
    October 22, 2013 at 2:17 am

    As so many have predicted, the collapse of America is unstoppable and it will drag the reluctant nations in Europe, Australia/New Zealand along with it.

    Of course the BRICSA nations will not tread down that road. What about Germany? That is the unknown question.

    If the Regime drags America into the Novus Ordo Seclorum, the Regime will be forced to retaliate against BRICSA in order to remain the world’s reserve currency. What about Germany?

    • Art Stone says:
      October 22, 2013 at 2:57 am

      Bill Wattenburg was sitting in for Jerry Doyle tonight. He was shaking the nuclear sabers that just any day now Iran would be giving terrorists a nuclear bomb that would explode in the United States.

      All the stops are being pulled out to make sure Iran and the US don’t return to being not enemies. The Arab Royal Families and Israel are on the same side. As the US gets less and less dependent on Middle East oil, Iran has some important decisions. If their oil production was suddenly on the market again, OPEC won’t be able to sustain $90 oil prices

      Ukraine is looking to start natural gas fracking to not be dependent on Russian gas. Someone should write a book called “peak natural gas”

  2. HPaws says:
    October 22, 2013 at 6:10 am

    The regime will continue to ‘double down’ on this and other programs, the common wealth be damned. Somewhere between a sin of omission and a sin of commission is the state of our former republic. The terminal denial of fact or reality, cause and effect, personal responsibility and the fabrication bizzaro-oahma-ness. The big question is which side wins or loses (lives or dies) – do to lovers of individual God-given liberties fill the FEMA coffins or do the apparachiks and useful idiots?

    • Art Stone says:
      October 22, 2013 at 2:38 pm

      History suggests first the useful idiots face the firing squads of the people they put in power, then the masses get culled by forced relocation and starvation

      • Nidster says:
        October 23, 2013 at 1:26 am

        Yeah, it has been done before, many examples. Could be different in the future. Ordo Ab Chao, Order from Chaos. If some financial meltdown creates chaos there could be a different scenario, e.g. something akin to Night of the Long Knives, but bigger in scope. First, gotta get rid of us pesky, dirty, low-down, you-know-who’s. Then a strong man can rule, not that wimp in power now.

    • Art Stone says:
      October 26, 2013 at 2:02 am

      Really weak journalism. Yes, Michelle and this woman were “classmates” in Princeton ’85, but the story makes no claim that the two women knew each other at Princeton out of a class of probably 1200 graduates, nor is it provide any evidence that there was any contact or preferential treatment or that the woman is even involved with the Obamacare project.

      It may well be they know each other and that played a role, but there is no evidence stated to back that up – in fact, the story mentions the company got on the approved vendor list under George W Bush. This is classic innuendo based on guilt by association.

      Looking deeper, she joined that company in 2010 – her area of focus is civilian agencies (as opposed to military). Looking for specifics, she has mostly been involved with “ERP” (Enterprise Resource Planning) projects, moving stuff to “the cloud” – for the Railroad Retirement Board, the FTC, State of Colorado, EPA, and the NRC.

      • CC1s121LrBGT says:
        October 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm

        My bigger concern was that for a 1/2 billion dollars, there was no bidding on the contract, it was wired as a sole source.

        • Art Stone says:
          October 28, 2013 at 5:56 pm

          Now we’re getting somewhere. They built the foundation that they knew each other in school (not surprising that two of the earlier black women in Princton’s lily white campus would notice each other), the picture at the white house (although that by itself probably just means they gave money), and the statement that the unit she heads landed the Obamacare contract.

          My guess was they have an insider (or another company on the list) who spilled the beans and it was probably true, but journalism needs more than just innuendo.

          Now it’s time for the major media like Huffington Post to pick up the ball.

          • CC1s121LrBGT says:
            October 28, 2013 at 6:42 pm

            FWIW – The Daily Caller is run by Tucker Carlson, formerly of CNN, PBS, MSNBC and now from Fox News.

          • Nidster says:
            October 28, 2013 at 7:41 pm

            One could wonder if Huffington Post is up to the task of yet another investigation. How is it doing on Ben Ghazie ? Or is that ancient history?

            Anyway, Michelle and Toni McCall (Townes-Whitley’s maiden name) could be as close as 2 peas in a pod. Both worked together in two different radical student groups on campus, one of which invited Hassan Rahman, the PLO’s deputy UN observer, to appear on campus in 1982.

            Rahman “reiterated the PLO’s position that the Palestinians deserve a homeland and that they are entitled to use terrorism to achieve their goal, just as American revolutionaries did against the British.”

            Rahman said of non-PLO supporting Palestinians at the event, “We have the right to kill them if they are traitors and negotiate with the Israelis,” according to a January 25, 1982 Princeton Alumni Weekly (Volume 82) article entitled “War of Words” in the column “On the Campus” by Ted Lempert ’83.

            Here we see the true color of a radical like Rahman, killing their countrymen can easily be justified if they do not conform to a radical’s ideal. What does Bill Ayers think about that, and would he approve?

          • Art Stone says:
            October 28, 2013 at 8:11 pm

            Is that a rhetorical question? Is this?

          • Art Stone says:
            October 28, 2013 at 8:13 pm

            So what you’re saying is Tucker Carlson can’t keep a job?

          • Nidster says:
            October 28, 2013 at 8:55 pm

            Yes and No, or Maybe!

            Tucker Carlson keeps getting better offers?

  4. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    October 30, 2013 at 10:32 am

    Here’s what is really happening: The Democrats wanted to force a redistribution of wealth to those that had been getting free healthcare without buying policies. They envisioned that those that do not need birth control pills, expensive fertility such as IVF, and cancer treatments would pay for those that do, through higher premiums rather than through an income tax hike.

    What they didn’t expect is that there are some smart people running the nation’s large insurance companies. Aetna, Cigna, and United decided (with exceptions in only a few states so they could stay in the loop and influence future regulation changes) to avoid the government’s new healthcare exchanges. Why you may ask? People need to use the exchanges to get taxpayer subsidies for their premiums. The major insurers are offering individual policies (some exceptions) but just not on the exchanges.

    The Democrats wrote the rules so that the insurers must put all their individual policies into the same rate pool. By avoiding the exchanges, they for the most part avoid those with significant expensive pre-existing conditions, especially those that are so sick they can not support themselves very well. They may well be able to offer lower rates than the exchanges can with the subsidies because their pool will be mainly healthy people.

    • Art Stone says:
      November 1, 2013 at 2:28 pm

      Not to worry – President Obama assures me that the web site will be fixed by the end of November, giving me and the 16 million other people with canceled coverage two weeks to get covered.

      Of course, I know there is no reason to go via the bottleneck – Coventry is regularly pinging me about my plans for 2014. As long as I’m not looking for a subsidy, there is no need to stand in the long line.

      Let’s see – 14 days and 14 million people, so that’s 1 million signups a day, which is only 11 signups a second if it’s evenly spread out.

      I mentioned a bit ago, that Google could probably slap this together in a couple weeks – they know how to create massively scalable web servers and have the bandwidth and hardware to make it happen. They seem to be at least at the table, if not yet given the ball to fix this mess.

  6. Art Stone says:
    January 23, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    Aetna is now threatening to pull out of writing health insurance

    http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/01/23/aetna-ceo-obamacare-has-failed-attract-uninsured-we-may-pull-out-program

    Moody’s has downgraded the entire health insurance industry over Obamacare concerns

    • CC1s121LrBGT says:
      January 23, 2014 at 8:07 pm

      Those health insurance firms were gleeful when dancing with the devil last year, thinking the individual mandate would lead to huge executive bonuses. They may not have realized that they were dancing with the devil because Michael Savage has been saying that the devil was named Hugh rather than Sam. Ted Cruz was onto it with Green Eggs, and not the health insurance companies may be toast.

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