Reprising in starring role in ‘The Gasbag Chronicles" we once again have none other than Steny Hoyer, everyone’s favorite gasbag, as well as being a Democrat from the People’s Republic of Maryland. It was during Hoyer’s most recent appearance that he was heard to suggest that the best possible way for Congress to chip in and help fix the problem-plagued Obamacare website would be to, of course, give the administration "a little money."
The location of this most recent episode of The Gasbag Chronicles just happened to coincide with one of the many Capitol Hill press conferences that are always taking place. It was during the one was on Tuesday that a reporter said "the website is not working," and then asked Steny, "Are you confident, though, the White House is taking the steps necessary? Is there anything you in Congress can do to help the White House take the steps?"
And, of course, the very first thing out of old Steny’s mouth, without even pausing to think about it, was, "Give them a little money. We've been pretty much focused in the House of Representatives on undermining the implementation and the Affordable Care Act in every which way they [Republicans] possibly could. Now, I don’t think that’s the reason, however. I don’t know that. If it is, it is. But I don’t know that to be the case."
You see, according to Democrats, money fixes everything, more money fixes it better. Of course, that’s only if it’s someone else’s money and never actually their own. But the persistent little reporter, in reference to the debacle of a website, then asked, "You don’t blame lack of money for this?" Hoyer said, "I don’t know. It’s not that I don’t blame, it’s – if I know that, I’ll blame it. I don’t know it at this point in time, Dave, so I’m not going to attribute it to that."
And when asked if that moron Sebelius should be fired over the website disaster or if "heads have to roll," Steny said, "Well, I certainly believe it is a bad performance. I don’t know about heads rolling. I do know that we have to get this right. Obviously, this was not done the way it should have been done, period, Dave, and I’m sure that if I were a Republican, I would yell and scream about it as well. They don’t like Obamacare." Well gee, I can’t imagine why!
I think that it has already become pretty much common knowledge that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, has been riddled with what have been termed as being "glitches" since it first came online. And this despite the fact that it cost roughly $400 Million just to build. Because, apparently, that $400 Million just so happens not to "include CMS salaries and other administrative costs" associated with the Obamacare exchanges.
"In other words, the actual cost for the development and implementation of the total Obamacare exchange system is far higher," said Andrew Couts at Digital Trends. "We, the taxpayers, have seemed to have forked up more than $500 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock," said Couts. Now while do have every right to be pissed off about such a waste of money, should we really be all that surprised?
And so, this wonderful little exercise in socializing American medicine not so slowly proves itself to be even more of a train wreck as it proceeds to roll down the tracks into operation. And as people are now finding out it is nothing like it what was, or continues to be, promised to be. Costs are skyrocketing, and millions will still be left without insurance. But at least it’s folks like Steny who will be in charge of who is able to get what. Isn’t that great?
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