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But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a briefing with reporters, pleaded for patience, acknowledging there would probably be some glitches in the coming days and weeks as the administration moves forward on the sweeping program known as Obamacare. She likened the inevitable fixes to software updates on Apple products such as the iPhone or iPad.
“No one is calling on Apple to not sell devices for a year or to get out of the business because the whole thing is a failure,” she said. “Everyone just assumes there’s a problem, they’ll fix it, let’s move on. . . . Hopefully, they’ll give us the same slack as they give Apple.”
Sebelius has a way of coming across as arrogant, with a hint of insecurity that she isn't qualified to do the job she was hired to do. She somehow finds a way to work around laws and industry standards and ethics that most mere mortal citizens are expected to follow, like signing a law in Kansas allowing illegal immigrants a benefit of in-state tuition fees for Kansas state colleges and universities.
Sebelius, like a lot of successful women her generation, such as Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Rodham Clinton, followed in their father's footsteps.
She is a woman on a mission, so good luck getting in her way. She was the insurance commissioner in Kansas before she became Governor. Does that frighten you at all?
I am sorry, but Millennials who voted for Obama and who are actually buying into the Sebelius-Obama media hype about free and low cost healthcare, you are in for a rude awakening.
If you are between the ages of 18 and 34 (if you are not lucky enough to have your parents still paying your insurance until the age of 26), then you are the ones who will be subsidizing this "affordable" healthcare, especially if you are not low income or if you are single with no children.
You are the least likely to need health insurance (according to the Kaiser Family Foundation only 1 in 4 insured people require medical services), and you are the group least likely to be insured (probably because you don't use it.)
You are the group targeted for sign up on healthcare.gov, and you are the ones who will be paying more. And no, you won't be paying more for better coverage or better services.
No one is forced to buy health insurance. You can not buy it and pay higher taxes.
While I agree with Sebelius that there will be some early bugs and people should have some patience, trying to white-wash the forced implementation of the gov. is disingenuous.
If younger people DONT sign up for health insurance, they WILL keep ratcheting up the penalties until they get sufficient compliance.
I mean, look at social security? Paying your taxes? Why try to hide the fact that the govt. will make (and have to do it) certain programs compulsory under various levels of financial force and even imprisonment. It's kinda neccessary, otherwise you don't have a compulsory program.
hint: Non-compulsory healthcare WILL fail due to adverse selection. They are just starting out with a smaller stick.
No one is forced to buy health insurance. You can not buy it and pay higher taxes.
In fact, this is the very situation that already exists and has existed for years.
If you don't get employee provided health insurance your taxable income is increased which means you paid higher taxes.
This reality has been the tax law of the land for decades.
Also, the people who are going to the website or calling to enroll are probably doing so because they want health insurance. SMH.
You paid higher taxes because your INCOME was higher. If you fail to purchase health insurance you are penalized and are taxed because you failed to buy something, not because your income was higher.
What did you expect from a gaggle of Saul Ailinsky,Marx,Mao lovers?
Enjoy sheeple....
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