The Media No Longer Cares For ObamaCare

Now The Media no longer care for ObamaCare, either. Wolf Blitzer of CNN announced that perhaps President Obama should listen to his Republicans (and a growing number of Democratic) critics and delay ObamaCare's individual mandate for one year.

Only a handful compared the hundreds of millions of Americans have been able to register. The local paper based in the South Bay, Los Angeles, The Daily Breeze, suggested that ObamaCare enrollment in California was "phenomenal", yet only about tens of thousands in the entire state had managed to sign on. There are thirty-eight million people in California, and there are Californians who have shared with friends and neighbors, as well as publishing in the same paper, that the Medicare exchanges will end up offering them health coverage more expensive with higher premiums and less coverage. At least the paper admitted the following:

"Indeed, the number of people who completed applications to buy insurance in the first five days represent just a tiny fraction of the 1.4 million legal residents Covered California hopes to enroll by December 2014."

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The President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association could not agree more. Yet why does a taxpayer advocacy group have a comment on ObamaCare? Because it's a tax, even when President Obama claimed that the mandate was not a tax, and even when ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos pulled out a dictionary to define the term and contradict the President. Yes, indeed. In California, the Medicare exchanges have been hardly "phenomenal", and readers and shakers in the South Bay and throughout California are not drinking this media-koolaid. Not phenomenal, but nominal, or incidental, with more accidents prone to happen along the way. Unlike the California press, national media affiliates were blunt and affronted. CBS This Morning released a more telling, and terrible, indictment of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have tried to sign onto ObamaCare through the federal website healthcare.org, but the site was unsuited not just for the volume of potential visitors, which was not great at all, but also for the numerous glitches and slow-downs, followed by shut-downs which faced visitors. The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California) David Letterman and Jay Leno took pot-shots at the bankrupt and bereft Medicare Exchange launch. Jon Stewart even called out the Secretary of Health and Human Services as a liar. The Obama Administration refuses to release on data on how many people actually signed on the first day, or subsequently. "The website's launch has been nothing short of disastrous." Ouch! And this indictment from the Main of Mainstream Media, CBS! National newspapers like USA Today and the Washington Post have also issued their searing series of headlines, admitting that they can find no one who has enrolled successfully on ObamaCare. "Inexcusable Mess!" "Nightmare!" sum up USA Today's take on ObamaCare. Even supporters of the law acknowledge that the website's poor design and untested record support the argument that healthcare.gov needs to go back to surgery. Perhaps for another year, per the Republicans' suggestion. ObamaCare has not rolled out, but stumbled about, and the nationwide reports bear this out. On the Iowa exchanges, only five people signed up. Homeless and low-income North Dakotans will suffer because of ObamaCare New York's site claimed that coverage would not be available to 3013. (Better than one year delay, at least!) Only 40,000 signed up so far in the Empire state. In Connecticut, residents are learning that they will be losing their health insurance, and those who have kept their coverage now pay the fourth highest premiums in the country. In Tennessee, smart phone give-aways did not shore up the numbers for enrollees. Local media affiliates could not find anyone who had signed up successfully. The New Jersey press reports that more residents like ObamaCare, yet they have far less of an understanding of the law than residents in other states. Direct reports have informed me that New Jerseyans are losing their insurance plans. Even in blue states like Hawaii, ObamaCare is caring for no one. The Aloha state said "Aloha" as in good-bye for a day, then relaunched the website, which has turned out to be worse than the federal Medicare exchange. In Oklahoma, the state attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed another lawsuit, one that attacks the key provisions and language of the law rather than undoing the constitutionality of the statute. While the IRS has affirmed that they can offer subsidies for those who enroll through state exchanges, not federal exchanges. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does not protect patients, has proven unaffordable, and demonstrates the outright false advertising of the current administration, which claimed that Americans would be able to keep their doctors, keep their plans, have more access to more affordable health care, and not have to pay any taxes. President Obama owns this signature failure of domestic policy, one which is harming every American. The legal and technical challenges printed in full display in national and local media should provide enough evidence to bring ObamaCare to a timely end, one which the majority of Americans support.