Sebelius Admits Trainwreck

So, Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius was on Capitol Hill today for her grilling session with House members who wanted answers on Obamacare. And the result? It's already a train wreck. No need to wait until they don't pay your claims...no need to wait and find out your deductible is only slightly larger than the federal debt. It's already here.

To date, Sebelius has noted, there have been 330,000 people that have signed up for Obamacare. Of that, 200,000 plus have come from the 14 states that are running their own websites, leaving about 130,000 to sign up at healthcare.gov (the federal government's website). The number they were looking for by the end of November? 1.2 Million. The number they want by January 1st? 3.3 Million. So, they are going to be some three million enrollees short. But want to know that bad news? It's going to be a LOT worse than that!

What Sebelius has conveniently forgotten to mention is that those 330,000 people actually don't have healthcare coverage until the make their first premium payment. How many have done that? Well, since the "backend system" that is supposed to get the money to the insurance companies hasn't been built yet (they're hoping to have it done by mid January), there's no way to know. Or is there? Insurance companies have released data that shows between 5 and 15% of the people that have signed up have actually made their first payment. You don't have to be a math whiz to know that figures out to be 16,500 to 49,500 people have actually become insured by Obamacare. Put it another way...a town the size of Tecumseh, Michigan to a town the size of maybe Glendale, Arizona has signed up and paid. The rest? Bupkiss.

Of course, if this were anything but the federal government, we wouldn't be looking at stupid, meaningless numbers like how many "intend" to sign up. We'd be looking at actual paid enrollees. But, this administration is hell-bent on trying to get the largest numbers available out there. It's so bad, however, even Sebelius has said she's going to have an investigation as to why the healthcare.gov website was such a disaster. She mentioned that HHS has spent to date $319 Million on the website. But we've all heard that it's more like triple that. Stupid thing is, I've checked with several friends of mine that have written websites for years, and they all have said, they could have a "Amazon like website" up and running for less than a million bucks.

So, it's not been a very good opening salvo for Kathleen Sebelius. According to today's Wall Street Journal, 56% of Americans surveyed want to dump the healthcare law. Only 38% was in favor of keeping it. That's an all-time low. Meanwhile, Obama's approval rating, which has always been high, has slipped to 38%...an all time low attributable to two things: 1) the debacle that is his legacy and 2) the fact he lied to the American people over 30 times (no parsing words or phrases here...in America, when you say something that isn't true, it's a lie. He lied).

Here's the best part. Since there is no way for the insurance companies to "match up" who has paid to who has signed up, they have to do it by hand. Ever try sorting through 300,000 entries and check to see if they've paid by hand? That alone is going to take a year. And Obama still insists, the train wreck isn't a train wreck and that the train will arrive in the station on time and in one piece. I don't know what drugs he's doing, but they've got to be pretty good! Even his own HHS Secretary is saying it's a debacle and it isn't going to be fixed anytime soon.

So what does this mean? It means, you better not have to sign up for insurance anytime soon, because you're not going to be getting it. This White House has done an admirable job of screwing up the entire healthcare industry because of trying to get 15 million people insured that were currently not. Instead, they've thrown an additional 5 million people on the uninsured rolls through cancellations, and have replaced them with a total of 300,000 people who have requested insurance....but really they've replaced them with under 50,000 people that have purchased it.

What a friggin' embarrassment! And we wonder why the GOP said this thing would flop five years ago?