A story on Fox News.com this morning, listed three key indicators of the new health care tax’s results so far, as follows: “The IRS on Saturday reported handling more than 330,000 requests from ObamaCare exchanges to calculate whether Americans are eligible for federal tax credits when purchasing insurance through the program.
The IRS also reported that it has received and responded to more than 1.3 million requests from the marketplaces about household income and the size of families, which the agency called “critical” information in determining applicants’ eligibility for “income-based financial assistance
The Obama administration has yet to release information on the number of Americans who have bought insurance through the exchange, perhaps the best indicator of public interest and the success of the program, but has vowed to in the coming months.”
So, as certainly should have been expected, those looking for a free or discounted ride are the one’s having the most interest in the new tax. But for some reason, the numbers aren’t available as yet for those having to pay their own way. Which certainly suggests that there simply aren’t that many of them. Because if there were, the adminitration not only would have made the significant demand headline news, the incumbent would already have delivered twenty or thirty speeches on the subject by now surrounded by gleeful customers waving checks in their hands, eager to pay the new tax.
But aside from the false promises the incumbent made about his new health care tax, there was another story yesterday illustrating how this phony performs.
I remember clearly all the noise that was made about his special visit to New Jersey, to fly over the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy to illustrate in a photo op how concerned the administration was, and that he himself was promising to do all he could to help the unfortunate victims.
And just yesterday, Fox News.com reported that: “New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he understands victims' frustrations a year after Superstorm Sandy but maintains that his administration isn't to blame for delays in aid reaching victims.
In an interview with The Associated Press as the anniversary of the Oct. 29 megastorm approached, Christie blamed Congress, which took three months to approve a $50.7 billion relief package for the region, and a thicket of red tape put in place to prevent the type of fraud that occurred after Hurricane Katrina.”
So, while significant numbers of folks are still without homes and don’t know where to turn anymore for help, where’s the incumbent now? Probably out on the links somewhere warm, thinking about how he can blame “W” for the health care tax fiasco.
And then, in another example of monumental presidential BS, Fox News.com also reports that Jonah Goldberg, at-large editor of National Review Online, said it's "just simply factually untrue," when discussing the President's prior statements on how the Affordable Care Act would allow people to keep their insurance and that premiums wouldn't go up.
From the beginning, President Obama's statements about how you can keep your insurance, your premiums won't go up will go down in history, conceivably at least, it looks like it, as the biggest single domestic policy lie in presidential history. It is just simply factually untrue and there is copious data, copious video of him saying these things."
Which brings me to the best summation I’ve seen regarding the new health care tax so far, by Fred Barnes, executive editor at The Weekly Standard, who wrote: “But ponder this: Had Obamacare been created as a private enterprise with Obama as CEO, it wouldn’t have lasted a week. Not only would the stumbling company have been put out of business, so would its incompetent CEO. And we’d all—well, most of us—be better off.”
That's it for today folks.
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