Crappy Health Care Plans because the gop made the loss of said crappy Health Care Plans a National Emergency doesnt exactly fit the description of longterm strategy. But these days all bets are off. The Washington Post reports this morning that the white house is increasing its reliance on insurers by accepting their technical help in efforts to repair the problem. The problem online insurance marketplace and prioritizing consumers ability to buy plans directly from the carriers. The administrations broader cooperation with insurers is a tacit acknowledgement that the federal Insurance Exchange might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th. Might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th would seem to be as terrifying a phrase for democrats as the phrase sarah palin has returned is for republicans. Speaking in iowa on saturday, Sarah Barracuda fired a warning shot to anyone seeking to challenge the tea partys power and the Republican Party. Some of
Are far enough into the process to find out how big of a subsidy theyll receive. A good indicator of how many people are signing up. But the site faced another glitch. Data system that verifies Applicant Information crashed. 36 states using federal exchanges and the 14 states that run their own. Friend of the show josh barrow is back, editor of business insider, he is a boston guy. Perhaps the answer came from what the healthcare. Gov website needs is a pep talk from david ortiz, referring to nice pep talk that big papi was giving the guys in the dugout in the game that led to that winning the game. Part of the problem is theres a big project giving the pep talk, part of the problem is we have folks in the Democratic Party that say we need to push the deadline back. But the problem with that the Way Insurance act wearies work, they start in the spring of 2014 to look at the pool and see what kinds of claims have been lodged and figure out what the rates will be. That will mean 2015 rat
Of the bullying saga. First look begins right now. Good morning. Devastation in the philippines. Right now, there is a humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportions, with thousands feared dead. Nbcs ian Williams Joins us live from manila with the latest. Good morning. Reporter were still trying to get together the precise information about what happened down there. We do know that the devastation has been widespread. But rescue workers are still trying to get to some of the more isolated communities, where communication is still down. Where roads are blocked. They have reached a major city on the coast that was battered when the typhoon came ashore. The local authorities estimate that perhaps 10,000 people died. Its hard to say for sure. The official death toll is just over 250. But thats certain to rise, as officials and rescue workers reach some of the outlying areas. The destruction has been massive. Cutting aswath across the philippines. A large area of the coast has almost been wipe
Work, or at least when they work. But if you were a member of congress, you were supposed to go to work today, then also tomorrow, which is a bummer, but dont worry, you can cut out middle of the day on wednesday. You will not be working thursday or friday. You will not be working all of next week. Also, you do not have to work the monday after that. Youre going to work a 2 1 2day week this week, then youre not back until after veterans day. When you come back after veterans day, its a fourday week followed by another fourday week, and then thats it for the whole month nice deal, right . I mean, no matter what else might motivate you to want to be in congress, that kind of a schedule and a sixfigure salary for doing it, that is a combination that is impossible not to love. And we learned at politico. Com late last night this is amazing that even though congress is already basically not working anymore between now and christmas, theyve got just those few days scheduled on the calendar,
Insurance is real important. And today it hangs in the balance of a website or a promise here and there. It doesnt mean any government takeover. What the president said and everybody said all along, there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care act. If the president knew that these letters were coming, that raises some serious questions about the sales job of obama care. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. Why are you cutting these people from their insurance . Well, dave, were not cutting people. Were actually transitioning people. Create minimum standards of coverage. Minimum services that every Insurance Plan has to provide. If he does not succeed with obama care, expansive liberalism, i think it will be set back a full generation. I refuse to see this country in all of us shrink from these struggles, which are our responsibility and our time. Because what we are now talking about in our childrens day will seem to be the ordinary business of government.