ObamaCare debacle update...

ObamaCare debacle update...  Because you really wouldn't want a stale debacle, would you?

ObamaCare – as if Apollo 11 took off for the moon, but landed in Newfoundland.  Classic Mark Steyn.  His conclusion:

Instead, we have government by people who read Thomas L. Friedman and use words like "interconnectedness" and give commencement addresses where they rave about how our world is changing so fast — and assume that just being glibly au courant is a substitute for being able to do, make, build. There are lessons here beyond the abysmal failure of one misconceived government program, lessons about what our esteemed (if not terminally self-esteemed) elites value as "smart," and about the perils of rule by a poseur technocracy. As for Obama, he's not Jay-Z, nor even Justin Bieber: He can't sing, or dance, or create a government bureaucracy that functions any more efficiently than a Soviet supermarket. He broke the lifelong rule that had served him so well — "Don't just do something. Stand there" — and for the first time in his life did something, terribly. It will bear his name forever.

Now, this is infuriating: IBM offered to build the ObamaCare site for free – and That One turned down the offer.  Instead, they spent nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money on a disastrous turkey of a web site...

Major Obama “bundler” bets against ObamaCare site.  More precisely, he's short-selling CGI's stock.  That's the company that spent nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money producing WWW (the World's Worst Website)...

Next ObamaCare horror cued up: “doc shock”.  California is the worst affected state.  Oh, joy.

More fiddling the numbers.  Seriously, you're not surprised by this, are you?  We mere citizens apparently can't handle the truth, so the lies are expected to do...

We may have reason to be grateful to this law professor.  He may have discovered the crucial legal vulnerability in ObamaCare; the cases he inspired are progressing toward a nearly inevitable review by the Supreme Court...

Not only is healthcare.gov a turkey, but we overpaid for it!  I agree with the basic premise of the linked piece: paying nearly a billion dollars for that web site is a ludicrously high figure.  The “experts” they cite contend that $5m to $10m would be the most it should cost.  I don't think that estimate is really quite fair – there are many sites on the Internet today that cost a lot more than $10m to build.  Perhaps a more reasonable estimate might be $20m to $30m – for a complete site, secure, fast, and usable.  But that's still a far, far cry from nearly a billion dollars for something so bad it's likely it needs to be pitched out and redone from scratch...

A doctor sues ObamaCare – wants ObamaCare strictly enforced.  He's not happy with the impact That One's regal actions have had on his business...
Pro Publica explains the “834 problem”.  I still shocked when I visit their site and find articles criticizing That One.  It's as if Jay Carney starting working for Paul Ryan...

ObamaCare's worst case scenario?  Maybe – somehow all those millions of people whose policies have been canceled have to get new insurance coverage in place before January 1st.  That date is not very far away.  Being the cynic that I am, somehow I think that a solution will be found – an expensive, taxpayer-funded, single-payer “solution”...

ObamaCare may wipe out volunteer fire departments.  IRS to decide.  ObamaCare: is there anything it can't do?