Consumer Reports on Obamacare

What marvelous entertainment ObamaCare is providing!

Here are a few quotes from an article on-line in the WSJ on Friday.

First benefit - Vocabulary expansion.

The problems run much deeper than even critics expected, and whatever federal officials, White House aides and outside contractors are doing to fix them isn't working. But who knows? Omerta is the word of the day   ...

Omerta?  Here's a link to an on-line dictionary.

The article continues:

The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle. Ducking an investigation with spin is one thing. Responding with a wall of silence to the invitation of a duly elected congressional body probing the use of more than half a billion taxpayer dollars is another. This Obama crowd is something else.

But wait.  Weren't we promised "open honest and transparent government?"

Well, there are on-line systems that do work.  In the old days, a Friday article like that would be lucky to prompt a Monday response in the Letters to the Editor.  Now, from the comments, we can instantly enjoy creative writing like this:

Physician: "What have you done to your knee?"
Sebelius: "I was running really fast from the American people... they had pitchforks and torches!"
Physician: "Well you blew out your knee... you'll need a replacement."
Sebelius: "Oh my, when can you schedule me in?"
Physician: "Well, I'm afraid that Kenyan Kare declines knee replacements for anyone over 65."
Sebelius: "Do you know who I am???"
Physiciann: "I can offer you some Ibuprophen... that will be $800.00" "Next..."

I see now that "The Best and the Brightest" techies are being brought in to resolve the problems.  Will we discover that after almost forty years, Brooks Law has been repealed?  Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, there is lots of advice that the penalty for not having health insurance by January 1 is $95.  Oops!  It's actually 1% of income with a minimum of $95.  For a $50,000 income, that's $500.  Better news.  Next year it goes to 2%!
And here's the official advice from Consumer Reports after telling you that you might have to clear your cookies or switch browsers to complete your sign-on to HealthCare.gov:

If all this is too much for you to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can. Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they’ve made.