Multiple Reports Cite Obamacare Rollout Failure, Thousands of Health Plans Canceled

THE “TRAIN WRECK” PREDICTED BY MANY IS HERE

by Sharon Rondeau

(Oct. 22, 2013) — News sources all over the web, including traditional Obama supporters, are reporting that hundreds of thousands of health plans have been canceled while the same customers cannot obtain coverage through Obamacare, Obama’s “signature” achievement while occupying the Oval Office.

The Huffington Post reported, “Thousands of Americans See Their Health Plans Canceled.”

HotAir reports on a single father whose premiums will “more than double.”  A family in Missouri has lost its health insurance because the plan they were using has been canceled, with a proposed replacement plan costing $800 monthly.

“It’s worse than his team has let on,” reports Ron Fournier of National Journal, of the problems with the Healthcare.gov website.

The Ulsterman Report quoted Associated Press reporter Julie Pace as having reported that the Obama regime is hiding the Obamacare enrollment numbers to “make the system look good.”

White House Dossier was the source of the Ulsterman story in which Pace described the regime as being “selectively transparent.”

The Washington Post, normally Obama-friendly, has reported that the Healthcare.gov site was known to have systemic problems before its October 1 launch which prevented multiple potential customers from even beginning the application process.

Twitter is replete with links to articles detailing the epic failure of the launch of Obamacare.

On Monday, Obama insisted that “The website’s gonna get fixed” and “the law works.”

Obama said that it was “crushing” to families who heretofore had not been covered by insurance.  However, premiums for young, healthy people have increased significantly.

Pundit Dick Morris said that Obama is “choosing the failure he can overcome” by “focusing on the computer glitches” in the website.  Morris said that “the real problem” is that “nobody wants it.”  He also said that Obamacare premiums are “unaffordable.”

On Tuesday, Fox News reported that website traffic on Healthcare.gov is “down 88% since the first day” on October 1.

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin believes that “Obamacare’s colossal rollout bungle” was done purposely.  Newsmax reported that “The built-in flaws, costs and complexities of Obamacare could actually be intended to stampede frustrated Americans to want ‘free’ and supposedly simpler socialized medicine.”

Alleged “success stories” are reported at an apparent Health and Human Services website on Tuesday morning.  At the section titled “We’re listening – and improving every day” at Healthcare.gov, a commenter named Krista20 said of her online experience:

I can finally get through to the application process and now I am getting stuck on the “Are you enrolled full time in school?” and then if yes it asks “Do you have a parent or guardian living in the state you attend school?” I click yes and the green save and submit button does not work. I click it, hit enter, I have tried everything and nothing on the page indicates it is loading anything it just does nothing. I have tried to “chat” about this issue and have been told that it is due to traffic. I beg to differ, because I have successfully gotten through the whole application up until that point at least 10 times and all during different times of the day as directed by the agent. It is a glitch and has not been fixed for at least two weeks now. It would be nice to be able to move on from that question at least. End rant.

CNN, which previously extolled the advantages of Obamacare, now reports that “Many who were uninsured before are feeling forced to buy pricey insurance they don’t want. Others who had bare-bones individual plans are seeing the premium prices soar because the Obamacare plans are more comprehensive.”

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), who helped to write the law, predicted six months ago that its implementation would be a “train wreck.”