Bad Jokes
An excerpt from the latest on straightlinelogic:
Studies by the McKinsey Group and Rand Corporation have estimated that only 30 percent were previously uninsured, and of that group, 53 percent had paid. By those estimates about 1.1 million previously uninsured signed up and paid, out of an uninsured pool of 46 million. That’s a rousing 2.3913 percent. “Feel good” Common Core math says that’s a really big number—it feels good to insure the uninsured! Estimates of how much the program will add to the deficit have gone from Obama’s original not-a-dime assurance to $2.6 trillion over the next ten years, 26 trillion dimes (non-Common Core math). Common Core math says that’s a really small number—it feels good to insure the uninsured! Of course, Democrats were going to declare their program a success if one person got insurance at a cost of ten trillion dollars. You can’t put a price on good intentions.
The ACA has made them complete laughingstocks. The predictable failure of legislation that few of them had read; that reordered a huge, complicated sector of the economy none of them understood; that they knowingly lied about to win public support; that required a dubious procedural maneuver to pass; that secured no votes from the opposition party; that relied on a flawed website that nobody bothered to test; that became the Supreme Court blessed, inviolable, absolutely-cannot-be-revised law of the land, now revised by Obama at least twenty times; that will require a court to decide that the plain wording of the law—subsidies can only go to those who sign up on state, not federal exchanges—does not mean what it says; should get this gaggle of idiots hooted off the political stage for years, if not decades, if not forever. Should, but won’t, because in Washington nothing succeeds like failure. This one paves the way for another bad joke: socialized medicine, their ultimate dream.
Studies by the McKinsey Group and Rand Corporation have estimated that only 30 percent were previously uninsured, and of that group, 53 percent had paid. By those estimates about 1.1 million previously uninsured signed up and paid, out of an uninsured pool of 46 million. That’s a rousing 2.3913 percent. “Feel good” Common Core math says that’s a really big number—it feels good to insure the uninsured! Estimates of how much the program will add to the deficit have gone from Obama’s original not-a-dime assurance to $2.6 trillion over the next ten years, 26 trillion dimes (non-Common Core math). Common Core math says that’s a really small number—it feels good to insure the uninsured! Of course, Democrats were going to declare their program a success if one person got insurance at a cost of ten trillion dollars. You can’t put a price on good intentions.
The ACA has made them complete laughingstocks. The predictable failure of legislation that few of them had read; that reordered a huge, complicated sector of the economy none of them understood; that they knowingly lied about to win public support; that required a dubious procedural maneuver to pass; that secured no votes from the opposition party; that relied on a flawed website that nobody bothered to test; that became the Supreme Court blessed, inviolable, absolutely-cannot-be-revised law of the land, now revised by Obama at least twenty times; that will require a court to decide that the plain wording of the law—subsidies can only go to those who sign up on state, not federal exchanges—does not mean what it says; should get this gaggle of idiots hooted off the political stage for years, if not decades, if not forever. Should, but won’t, because in Washington nothing succeeds like failure. This one paves the way for another bad joke: socialized medicine, their ultimate dream.
