J. Jay's Jabberwocky / WWJD (What Would Jay Do): Oct. 21, 2013 - PPM

This week’s PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is rollout of Obamacare. I had previously blogged about delay of the ”Employer Mandate” as a PPM earlier this year.

It has been well-documented that the October 1 roll-out of Obamacare has been a disaster. On Monday, Obama held a Rose Garden photo-op with 13 people that had “successfully” enrolled. The only problem was only 2 of his speech props have actually registered.

Obama says he’s “frustrated” with the Obamacare website. It’s as if someone else has been in charge of Obamacare the last 3 years. Obamacare website doesn’t work. Obama says “use the phone!” Obamacare call center is instructing people to go to the website. President Obama says the Obamacare call centers "up and running" 24/7 in 150 languages. 1-800-318-2596. Wait times under a minute, he says.

Why have 150 languages? Press #1 for English, #2 for Spanish, #131 for Cherokee?

It used to be “we must pass Obamacare to see what is in it.” Now, it’s “we must use a non-functioning website to hide what is in it.”

Obama stated: "We are going to hire the best and brightest to fix Healthcare.gov" Did they hire idiots before?

The contract to build the Obamacare website was awarded after reviewing one bid. It went to CGI, a CANADIAN company for $55,744,081. It has now bloated to over $680 Million by some estimates. Guess who is going to pay for the overtime to fix it?

I bet Mitt Romney has “Binders full of JavaScript developers” that could fix the problem. Then again, had America had the foresight, Romney would have been elected and KILLED OBAMACARE and saved us all the time and money.

To add to the failures, the Obama team will not provide information on how many people have enrolled. By their own admission, Obamacare needs 7 million enrollees by March. 2014 to remain “solvent.” The administration’s estimates are that 500K will enroll each month. Even at that rate, that would get you only 3M by the deadline. Why is math so hard for Obama?

In FL and CA, 460,000 folks lost coverage due to Obamacare. Would you say that millions of Americans having their desired insurance policies canceled is a feature, or a bug?

I would suggest we have a Tote Board to count how many people have signed up for Obamacare vs. the number that have lost coverage due to Obamacare.

We could legitimately end up with less people insured in 1 year than before Obamacare was passed, despite spending billions of dollars and hurting our economy.

The main goals of Obamacare were to reduce Healthcare costs, reduce premiums and expand coverage. As of now, it is accomplishing none of those things.

The truth is, the web-site debacle is only the front door that leads to the horror house of fully implemented Obamacare.

My recommendation is that Republicans should stop with the defunding and criticism. Let Obamacare fall under its own weight. Obamacare is situated at the intersection of “Incompetence” and “Ignorance.”

Let Obamacare implode as full-time jobs disappear, health care premiums soar, and administration and registration for the plan is unattainable.

I actually do get joy from saying, “I TOLD YOU SO.”