But Americans liked them... The plans fit their needs and their budgets...

You assert that Obama "broke the law". How did he do that?

Uh... By saying that Insurance Companies could offer the cheaper plans that violated obamacare without penalty..

Basically, it's the Dream Act all over again..

Your leaders have no credible alternative to offer; they are all rich and none of them are at risk if they were to succeed in overturning the law. They and their families will be fine.

For the record, they aren't "my leaders"..

I have no leaders, as I don't buy into the idea that ANY political critter, Repub OR Dem, has an ounce of integrity or care one iota about me and my family...

That's where we are different, Paula.

You actually think that YOUR leaders (Obama and the Democrats) care about you and your family...

They don't.. They care only about their own, just as you accuse Republicans...

So it does look like they're cognizant of the possibility of traffic surges overloading servers...

Want to lay down bets as to whether or not it will do any good??

The CODE is the problem...

You can have 20,000 servers but if they are all running bad code, then it will simply make matters worse, rather than better...

obamacare pukes at 20K-30K users, even though the code needs to handle twice that...

You watch.. The first week or two of Dec is going to make the first week or two of October look like a picnic by comparison...

Amer,

On a personal note,despite my revolutionary fervor,I too like cute baby pictures and hope that the addition to Michale's family grows into a better World than it is now.

Amem to that..

My only beef is that ya'all think that Democrats are the ones to bring about that "better world"...

Despite ALL the evidence to the contrary...

Michale

"Officials are also expecting traffic to spike at the end of the month and onward. So this weekend, the administration is adding more servers and data storage to help handle any additional load."

So it does look like they're cognizant of the possibility of traffic surges overloading servers...

On a personal note,despite my revolutionary fervor,I too like cute baby pictures and hope that the addition to Michale's family grows into a better World than it is now.

Wrong. They were substandard. And some of them were created after ACA passed with the intention of being cancelled.

You assert that Obama "broke the law". How did he do that? You assert that plans were "adequate but cheaper". The reality is that they were the best people could afford and were likely to really screw them over if they actually got seriously ill.

You are defending the previous system wherein Insurance Companies had absolutely no pushback and were able to screw people over with total impunity. Keep in mind that people had no alternatives to this system -- people were literally held captive. They had to pay, often quite a bit, for very dodgy coverage, or they were refused coverage entirely due to pre-existing conditions.

The mistake Obama and Dems made was in believing (apparently) that if he kept the Public Option out of the mix, the insurance companies would not continue to be the stunningly despicable operators they had gotten away with being before the ACA. But many simply turned around and started producing policies they had every intention of canceling, and some went on to actually, actively, deliberately misinform policyholders by either automatically pushing them into higher cost policies and implying they had no other choices, and/or by canceling them and claiming mean ol' Obamacare was canceling them for no good reason and not because they were crap.

You have a new grandchild. Do you think the repubs that are busily trying to destroy the protections the ACA mandates give a shit about your grandchild? If that child gets hurt or is seriously ill, would your sanctimonious repubs give a damn if your daughter was financially ruined? Or was unable to afford care that was needed? Do you think the insurance companies care? Unless forced, they would happily take your daughter's money and stop paying for care the second she met a limit. They did that over and over to people.

Every time you applaud the problems with the website or the law you are applauding a system that was sociopathic and merciless. Your leaders have no credible alternative to offer; they are all rich and none of them are at risk if they were to succeed in overturning the law. They and their families will be fine. But yours?

:D

Thanx. Gods help the poor kid if he has my hairline.. :D or lack thereof...

Michale

Cheers!

This is the inherent danger to Democrats in the here and now....

Michale

I was very interested in your last segment regarding the refocus and I have a feeling that THAT is going to be Obama's biggest problem.

But first, let me address the will it help question.

No, it will not help. Because all Obama did was break the law.. As he is wont to do, Obama simply told insurance companies that they won't be arrested (so to speak) if they continue to offer the policies that people were happy with, even if they don't measure up to obamacare quality.

Do you see and understand the mess Obama has created??

The millions of Americans who lost their insurance will want those policies back. And there is absolutely NO REASON why the insurance companies can raise the rates on those policies..

But the key is that those policies were eliminated by obamacare because they didn't bring in enough revenue.

NOT because they were substandard. Because they were cheap plans.. And the insurance companies are going to lose boo-koo bucks if they continue offering the cheap plans..

Another facet of the mess Obama has created is that he has created 2 classes of Americans. Those who have the adequate cheaper plans and those who are forced to take the more expensive Chock Full Of Nothing They Need obamacare plans..

This will create real problems and headaches for the insurance companies who will simply point the finger at Obama and the Democrats and say, "Blame Them!!"

And, at the polls, the American voters will do exactly that..

Finally, let's look at the refocus... You postulated that it might be a positive refocus or a negative..

Give the history, it's likely to be negative..

When obamacare first rolled out, the problem was the website. The problem IS still the website, but a new focus have been the cancellations.. It's likely that a new focus will emerge will ALSO be negative, given the downward trend and the momentum it has to date...

To sum it, things are going to get much MUCH worse for Obama and the Democrats before it gets better..

And, like CW's prediction of the next big spike, you read it here first..

Michale

I am driving my daughter crazy by always referring to the little tyke as "Michale"... It's just has a nice ring, rolling off the tongue sound..

MMMmiiiiiiiiiccchhhhaaaaalllllleeeeee

:D

Although, since I am a big HIGHLANDER fan, Conner does have it's appeal as well.. :D

Anyways, thanks again to you and to all of the well-wishers.. :D I am always said and it's still true, when the chips are down, Weigantians are the greatest people on the planet, politics be damned...

Michale

Woo hoo! It worked!

:-)

-CW

Because I'm a sucker for sentimentality, here is the newest addition to Michale's family:

Congratulations!

:-)

-CW