Why has ACA enrollment accelerated so much over the past few months? What changes have been made, and are they making enrollment faster and easier?
First of all, if you still need to sign up for health insurance, you should go to Health Insurance Marketplace, Affordable Care Act right now and sign up for coverage. You've got just seven days left until the March 31st deadline. It’s last call for 2014 if you want to be covered this year. Now, it's no secret to anyone that we had some issues with the website at launch. But that was months ago. Thanks to a team of experts who worked around the clock to get the site working back then, response times on Health Insurance Marketplace, Affordable Care Act are faster than ever. Most young people are eligible for financial help to make health insurance more affordable. And more than 5 million people have already signed up for coverage -- with tens of thousands more signing up every day.We’ve also added more call center staffers to help people enroll over the phone, and launched new search tools at localhelp.healthcare.gov where you can find in-person help with filling out your application. Historically, we know that most people buy health insurance close to the enrollment deadline. We’re human. We procrastinate. Massachusetts, which passed a health care law in 2006 that served as a model for the Affordable Care Act, saw similar trends early on in its enrollment period. In the first month people could sign up for plans in Massachusetts, just 123 people enrolled. After the first four months, 15,560 people had enrolled. And more than 20 percent of all those who enrolled in that first year signed up in the last month. But the broader reason that enrollment has improved these past few months is that the Affordable Care Act is working. Folks are recognizing that quality, affordable health care is available to them in the marketplace, very often with a tax credit that lowers monthly premiums and makes coverage even more affordable. For many Americans, it's the first time they've been able to afford care at all.So, one more time: If you still need to sign up for health insurance, go to Health Insurance Marketplace, Affordable Care Act right now and get yourself covered -- this is the last call for 2014.
What is Obamanomics?
Yes, it is a corruption of socialism.In theory, socialism is the economic system where all of the production and consumption factors are managed by the government, ostensibly for the common good. But it ignores the fact that the huge bureaucracy needed to accomplish that goal takes up a very large piece of the GNP, thereby reducing the output by that amount.Obamanomics follows the same meme, except that the government uses the tax system to redistribute the wealth, taking billions for Obamacare and forcing everyone to enroll in their plan (or Obamacare approved plans). But in legislating those imperatives, Obamanomics, in the process, uses the system to enrich Obama's supporters, like the $600 million the government poured into the Canadian company who wrote the failed software for the Obamacare website (a senior officer of that company was a close classmate in Princeton to Michele Obama), or medical and pharma suppliers who were large contributors to the Obama campaigns. The laws also force participants to pay for services they will never use, like birth control and abortion plans for men to promote their ideologies and supporters.This scheme is not only limited to Obamanomics, but is visible in other industries, like the solar power industry, where, tax money was funnelled to Obama supporters like the owners of Solyndra and other 'green energy' endeavors, and to the union bosses in GM.In a wider sense, Obamanomics is a derisive term encompassing not only the use of the tax system to enrich some at the expense of others, but the mentoring of a system that allows the President and his cronies to enrich themselves and their cronies, like the Clinton Foundation, and Obama's brother's 'charity' to store up nuts for the 'winter' when the economy finally collapses from the racial enmity they have fomented, and the wealth that they have drained from the economy.