From Gary Bauer, End of Day Report, Campaign for Working Families
The bad news about Obamacare just keeps coming. Here is the latest batch of headlines:
- PreferredOne Health Insurance, the largest insurer with the cheapest rates in Minnesota’s state-run Obamacare exchange, announced this week that it was pulling out. Company executives said it was “purely a business decision” because continued participation in the exchange “was not sustainable.”
- If you have health insurance through Obamacare, you’d better consider identity theft protection too. The Government Accountability Office warned this week that Healthcare.gov is “exposing … data and its supporting systems to significant risks of unauthorized access, use, [disclosure], modification and disruption.”
- Security experts warned last year that the site was so bad it should be taken down. But the Obama Administration ignored its own security procedures then and it is still ignoring them now.
- Doctors don’t like Obamacare. According to a survey of 20,000 doctors, 46% gave Obamacare a “D” or an “F,” while just 25% gave it an “A” or “B.” In fact, 39% of doctors dislike it so much that they are going to “accelerate their retirement plans due to changes in the healthcare system.”
- Taxpayers are getting ripped off. The billion-dollar website was bad enough. But adding insult to injury, it was reported this week that a company awarded a $1.2 billion contract by the Obama Administration to process paper applications has in fact processed less than 5% of the expected number of applications. At that rate, the company is billing taxpayers more than $4,400 per application. Remember in November!
