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Just 22 percent of uninsured Americans plan on getting health insurance through the government exchanges -- the websites that help you sign up for coverage -- or have already done so, a Gallup poll released Friday found. What’s more, less than one-quarter of uninsured Americans who say they plan on buying coverage through the exchanges have visited one so far, according to Gallup.

The poll's results are troubling, suggesting that uninsured Americans aren’t responding to a part of Obamacare that’s critical to its success. In order to keep health insurance prices at a reasonable level healthy young adults need to sign up for coverage. If the only uninsured Americans that end up using the exchanges are those that are desperate for coverage, like the sick and elderly, it could push up premiums for everyone, threatening the exchanges’ success.

Pointedstick wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/0 ... 39446.html

Just 22 percent of uninsured Americans plan on getting health insurance through the government exchanges -- the websites that help you sign up for coverage -- or have already done so, a Gallup poll released Friday found. What’s more, less than one-quarter of uninsured Americans who say they plan on buying coverage through the exchanges have visited one so far, according to Gallup.

The poll's results are troubling, suggesting that uninsured Americans aren’t responding to a part of Obamacare that’s critical to its success. In order to keep health insurance prices at a reasonable level healthy young adults need to sign up for coverage. If the only uninsured Americans that end up using the exchanges are those that are desperate for coverage, like the sick and elderly, it could push up premiums for everyone, threatening the exchanges’ success.

Benko wrote: ...

Lets say the earth totally stops getting warmer i.e. over the next 10 years it does not get any warmer.  Where will the political will to continue defending global warming (as you know they will) come from?

...

How many legislators care about what their constitutents want?

Pointedstick wrote: Obamacare is collapsing, and Democratic senators, fleeing the carnage, are rushing to associate themselves with bills designed to delay or nullify portions of it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/1 ... 67718.html

Libertarian666 wrote: This may actually be the end of the line for the "progressive agenda".
Probably not, because delusion is a powerful force, but just maybe...

jacob_h wrote: Global Warming ended 16 years ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ve-it.html

However, this claim is simply incorrect.  Nuccitelli et al. (2012) considered the warming of the oceans (both shallow and deep), land, atmosphere, and ice, and showed that global warming has not slowed in recent years (Figure 3).

Benko wrote:

Libertarian666 wrote: This may actually be the end of the line for the "progressive agenda".
Probably not, because delusion is a powerful force, but just maybe...

Which do you think is stronger:

--The psychological drive to get everyone to do what you think is best, because you know better than they do what is good for them**

--The desire to have gov't do what it must and leave us alone otherwise


**you can currently read  examples of this on many web sites explaining why it is a good thing that people lost their insurance policies.

Benko wrote:

Libertarian666 wrote: This may actually be the end of the line for the "progressive agenda".
Probably not, because delusion is a powerful force, but just maybe...

Which do you think is stronger:

--The psychological drive to get everyone to do what you think is best, because you know better than they do what is good for them**

--The desire to have gov't do what it must and leave us alone otherwise


**you can currently read  examples of this on many web sites explaining why it is a good thing that people lost their insurance policies.

flyingpylon wrote: Unfortunately, the desire for "free sh*t" is even stronger than either of those.

clacy wrote: I think the big loser in all of this will be the middle class. ... The middle class will get their benefits reduced and pay more.

Libertarian666 wrote: He just announced a 1 year delay in the requirements that caused all the cancellations.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/obama-giv ... 2D11591250

Sounds great, but I have three questions:
1. How does this actually fix anything?
2. Wasn't that what the Rs were asking for, that Obama had to shut the government down because he wouldn't allow it?
3. What gives him the power to change laws by fiat?

Pointedstick wrote:

Libertarian666 wrote: He just announced a 1 year delay in the requirements that caused all the cancellations.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/obama-giv ... 2D11591250

Sounds great, but I have three questions:
1. How does this actually fix anything?
2. Wasn't that what the Rs were asking for, that Obama had to shut the government down because he wouldn't allow it?
3. What gives him the power to change laws by fiat?

Answers:

1. Shut up.
2. Shut up. Shut up! Shut up!!
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6woIRLnbmE

President Obama closed his health care press conference on Thursday by taking one last shot at the reporters he was speaking to.

“The things that go right, you guys aren’t going to write about," he said.

To say that might not have been the best thing to do on a day when Obama was apologizing for the botched rollout of his health care law, but, if Obama was looking for some stray validation, he would have been wise to look away from Twitter.

The reviews for his press conference were negative, to say the least. These are just some of the things people were saying:


I give up.
— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) November 14, 2013

Obama presser resembling first debate v. Romney in tone and dynamism.
— Jonathan Wald (@jonathanwald) November 14, 2013

Obama really not making the greatest case for federal programs...
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) November 14, 2013

Shorter Obama: "I don't know what's going on in the executive branch. I'm just the president."
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 14, 2013

Pointedstick wrote:If Obama can't manage to turn this around quickly and the Republicans can avoid distractingly making asses of themselves,