Couldn't possibly read and counter all the erroneous misinformation but I got part of it. There seems to be no way to keep up with all the GOP/TEA/BS. Some days you'd swear this was a feed lot.  Ron-1861300 ... It really boggles my mind that we have already spent over half a billion and multiple years - and the site is still far from being fully functional. I think Obama is really tone-deaf on how much this undermines his attempt at making Americans believe in the benefits of government.  Your figures on what has been spent are incorrect as is your "far from being fully functional". About $600M has been projected to be spent on the entire healthcare IT, not the Healthcare.gov website for ACA. It's projected to be about $300M.  The tobacco subsidies that Cruz voted to keep are $333M. No GOP outrage over that one for some reason. Funding something that causes health problems but wanting to repeal health care? Very odd until you find that Cruz is backed by tobacco.  At present only about $170M has been spent. Most of the figures being thrown around are distortions and misrepresentations. Some are outright lies, or misinformation if you prefer. One person yesterday was saying $750 billion. That's how crazy the anti-Obama propaganda has gotten. Wonder why they are willing to blatantly lie and inflate figures and yet frame Obama as "a liar" over his "you can keep it" statements?  Apparently it's ok for them to lie about everything ACA while holding Obama's feet to the fire over policies that don't meet ACA standards.  "One study by the liberal Center for American Progress, for instance, found that an average individual premium for a plan with relatively high out-of-pocket expenses in the insurance marketplaces is $3,900, about 16 percent lower than the $4,700 expected. If those savings were to stick, the Affordable Care Act would cost about $190 billion less than expected over the course of a decade, the center estimated."  Steven B Obama cannot be taken for his word ...  And you think we can trust the GOP? Cruz? The number of GOP lies about the ACA/Obamacare is mindboggling. Almost nothing they have said has been found to be true.  1. Claim: The law is a job-killer. FactCheck.org says: Overblown.  2. Claim: Premiums are going up because of the law. Premiums are going down because of the law. FactCheck.org says: It depends.  3. Claim: 8.2 million Americans can’t find full-time work partly due to Obamacare. FactCheck.org says: False.  4. Claim: You won’t be able to choose your own doctor. FactCheck.org says: False.  5. Claim: The government will be between you and your doctor. FactCheck.org says: False.  6. Claim: Those applying for federal subsidies can lie about their income without facing verification. FactCheck.org says: False.  7. Claim: Congress is exempt from the law. FactCheck.org says: False.  8. Cruz falsely claimed that the spouses of 15,000 UPS employees will be “left without health insurance” and forced into “an exchange with no employer subsidy.”  9. Cruz said the “IRS employees union has asked to be exempted from Obamacare.” Not so.  10. Cruz said the unemployment rate for black teens “is over 10 times higher than it is for college graduates (arguing ACA hurts minorities). False.  11. Cruz cited an outdated quote from Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, to back up his claim that Obamacare is slowing job growth.  12. Sen. Rand Paul wrongly argued that “everybody is going to pay more” for health insurance under the law.  13. Cruz said Obama promised three-and-a-half years ago — in 2010, when the Affordable Care Act was passed — that premiums “would drop $2,500″ for the average family by the end of his first term. False.  14. Cruz repeated the false claim that members of Congress are exempt from the health care law. The law actually prevents them from getting insurance through the FEHBP, like other federal employees.  15. The majority of Americans want to see the law repealed. False. When the majority of Americans are asked about the provisions in the law, they are for them. And most either support the ACA or believe it needs to be even more progressive.  16. Obamacare is government insurance. False. It only requires health insurance. Policies can be through the private sector.  17. Obama lied about "You can keep your plan". Grandfathered plans and plans meeting the ACA rules could be kept , just as he stated. Plans not meeting the ACA rules or grandfather exemptions were no longer "legal", so no, those could not be kept. He didn't promise people could keep illegal policies. Despite that the president is working to renew and reinstate many of those plans until 2015. The GOP plan? Repeal everything. Defund everything. Kick millions of Americans out of the plans to get them medical insurance coverage.  18. Obamacare is a "liberal" initiative. False. It is the accumulated result of efforts of all parties and insurance companies to come up with comprehensive health care reform. It is based on "Romneycare", a GOP plan proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation. It didn't get opposed until it was supported by Obama(obstruct and oppose all things Obama).  19. It will cause premiums to increase. False. Premiums have been increasing at a rate higher than income growth for over a decade. Obamacare will not stop increases but it will put limits on them they didn't have before.  20. Obamacare rations health care. False. It actually protects consumers from health care rationing by insurance companies.  21. The cheapest plans for families will be $20,000. False. Now that the ACA is going active the average cost before asistance is $249 a month.  22. Obamacare hurts Seniors and Medicare. False. It actually adds protections and improves coverage, like eliminating the "donut-hole".  23. Obamacare will require people to have an RFID chip inplanted. False and ridiculous, but hey, it's the extremist mindset so pretty much anything goes. And there are many, many more lies spread about Obamacare, too many to list and not have it be a masters' thesis.  When you stack up the falsehoods of the GOP, like Palin's "death-panels" to "lies" attributed to President Obama, there is no comparison. By far the GOP has been spreading outright lies, compared to Obama's misleading assurances.  CuriousinNC ... Bob Shlora of Alpharetta, Ga., was supposed to be a belated http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/12/white-house-declares-obamacare-website-fixed-but-problems-persist/">Obamacare success story. After weeks of trying, the 61-year-old told ABC News he fully enrolled in a new http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/12/online-obamacare-enrollment-for-november-surges-but-still-lagging/">health insurance plan through the federal marketplace over the weekend, and received a Humana policy ID number to prove it. But two days later, his insurer has no record of the transaction, Shlora said, even though his account on the government website indicates that he has a plan ...  Note that this transaction was done this weekend, not in the opening days of the troubled site.  I noticed you left out this part:  "Federal health insurance helpers told Shlora to wait several days for a specialist from the website to get back to him, he said, while Humana has told him that his application may pop up by the end of the week."  In other words he applied over the weekend which was November 30th - December 1st and on December 2nd(Monday, the day of the news report) he does not have confirmation from the insurance company.  Wow! Applied Saturday and no confirmation on Monday! So one work day after he applied the insurer doesn't have a record of the transaction! OMG! TRANWRECK! COMPLETE FAILURE!  Or maybe it just hasn't qued through yet? Ever heard of "backlogs"? How many insurers process applications in one day? Sure you can sign up. But how long does it take to get the policy written up, confirmed and sent? One day? This is just more arm waving that is ridiculous once you take a close look.  But the liberal paradise of California has most of the uninsured...  That would be the conservative paradise of Texas: 24% (Perry for President?)  Followed by the conservative paradise of Nevada: 23%  Followed by the liberal paradise of New Mexico: 21%  Equaled by the conservative paradise of Florida: 21%  Followed by the conservative paradise of Louisiana: 20%  Followed by the conservative paradise of Georgia: 19%  Equalled by the conservative paradise of Alaska (Palin's state?): 19%  Ah and finally, tied at number 6, we get the liberal paradise of California at 19%. Same as the great Palin state of conservative Alaska.  Then there is Montana(18%), Arkansas(18%), Arizona (McCain)(18%), Oklahoma(17%), North Carolina(17%), South Carolina(17%), Wyoming(17%), Idaho(16%), Mississippi(16%), Kentucky(15%), West Virginia(15%) ...  Congrats, GOP! Leading the way in uninsured!  In fact the average for the United States is 15%.  So what is our population? (313.9 million)  So what is the GOP plan to help cover 47,985,000 uninsured American citizens? --- Repeal the ACA/Obamacare and replace it with what we had before: 47,985,000 uninsured American citzens going without coverage. Replace including pre-existing conditions with excluding people with pre-existing conditions. Replace insurance companies not being able to cancel policies of people who become sick with policies that can cancel people who become sick.  What a great plan the GOP has! Keep the sick and uninsured .... sick and uninsured.  So, a video of Obama telling everyone over and over again that premiums will drop by $2,500.00 is a lie?  Yes. Exactly. See "Factcheck.org". He said  "Coupled with comprehensive reform, this could result in our nation saving over $2 trillion over the next 10 years, and that could save families $2,500 in the coming years — $2,500 per family."  There is a difference between "saving" on medical expenses and the cost of premiums.  But the myth makers aren't known for their comprehension skills. Exaggerations, yes, but accurate information? Actually I think they do understand because they can't be that stupid. But they know their followers aren't exactly known as "fact checkers".  Cobol man, my mom is dead. Does that make you happy son of a bitch?  Don't take people like Cobol Man too seriously. They don't really put a lot of thought into their posts as you can see by all the misinformation they continue to get wrong no matter how many times they are disproven. He's better than most but being considerate is a casualty of extremism.  Oh and sorry about your loss. Mine is getting up in age so I'll probably be going through that soon as well.
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