Im not a Conspiracy Theorist, but I do believe theirs some validity to what this fellow has to say: Obamacare officials were so worried about the reaction should Americans actually see what their health coverages will cost under the president’s signature law that they chose to set up a system that clogs up and crashes while an applicant’s potential eligibility for a subsidy is evaluated rather than a quick display of prices. That’s according to a report in Forbes, where contributor Avik Roy wrote, “Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. “HHS bureaucrats knew that would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.” Whatever the reason, it certainly has had the effect of restricting those who might actually want to sign up for the programs being offered. While most signup figures are not being released, officials in Colorado, running their “Connect for Health” program, said 226 people signed up for the insurance in the first full week of operations. And in that state, according to the Denver Post, “Customers are still being asked to complete their purchases by phone to ensure they get appropriate government subsidies based on their incomes.” Talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh addressed the report on Monday. Sign a petition telling the GOP not to cave in. “In order to keep people at this stage, first days, early days implementation, from learning what it’s actually going to cost them,” he said. “If that’s true, I totally understand it.” “The purpose was to get healthy people with average incomes to sign up and then gouge them, but the IT experts say the regime didn’t want them to see when they signed up they were getting gouged,” he continued. “So they caused the glitches that caused the slowdown so that people would keep trying to sign up, while not being able to, all because at this stage the regime can’t afford for people to learn that there isn’t going to be a $2,500 discount in your premium, there isn’t going to be free healthcare, there isn’t going to be anything Obama’s promised for healthy people with average incomes. They think that they are the chosen group!” Roy’s report said the Wall Street Journal had documented that there was supposed to be an Obamacare option to browse before registering – but that tool was delayed. “An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies,” the report said. Roy reported a Manhattan Institute analysis on which he worked found that Obamacare policies for men will be 99 percent more expensive – and for women 62 percent more expensive – “Than the cheapest plan offered under the old system.” “That raises an obvious questions. If 50 million people are uninsured today, mainly because insurance is too expensive, why is it better to make coverage even costlier? “The answer is that Obamcare wasn’t designed to help healthy people with average incomes get health insurance. It was designed to force those people to pay more for coverage, in order to subsidize insurance for people with incomes near the poverty line, and those with chronic or costly medical conditions,” Roy wrote. “But the laws’ supporters and enforcers don’t want you to know that, because it would violate the president’s incessantly repeated promise that nothing would change for the people that Obamcare doesn’t directly help. If you shop for Obamacare-based coverage without knowing if you qualify for subsidies, you might be discouraged by the law’s steep costs.” He said the site now can advertise plans for “$0″ or “$30″ instead of explaining the cost is $200, but there’s a subsidy. “This political objective – masking the true underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans – far outweighed the operational objective of making the federal website work properly,” Roy wrote. “Think about it. It’s quite possible that much of this disaster could have been avoided if the Obama administration had been willing to be open with the public about the degree to which Obamacare escalates the cost of health insurance.” Added Limbaugh, “These people that vote for Obama, healthy Democrats, they think they’re in it and Obamacare is to get this for them free or much cheaper than what it would cost them if they had to use their employer. And, of course, the dirty little secret – and it always has been, I mean by design – is that healthy people who are not going to access the system for treatment because they’re healthy are going to be gouged and their higher premiums are going to cover the cost for those who do need treatment and the people that can’t afford it.” He continued, “The regime can’t let that get out. … So here comes Obamacare, and Obama sold it. ‘You get to keep your doctor, you get to keep your insurance plan if you like it, and your premiums going to come down $2,500.’ Except none of that’s true. … The truth starting to trickle out that it isn’t affordable, it isn’t going to be cheaper, and it’s actually designed to screw young, healthy people who are going to be paying more and eventually their fines are going to be higher than what the cost of a policy would be.” Read more at mobile.wnd/2013/10/obama-crashing-health-care-site-on-purpose/#sDgD7O1ds3G0sE4D.99
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