Cost and Inefficiency

     Karl Rove is about as partisan as a Yankee’s fan in October, so you have to take what he says in that context; however, when he simply quotes indisputable facts, there is no denying the validity.  In a
    This is an illustration of how absurdly wrong the administration was in estimating the cost of this legislative behemoth known as ObamaCare.  What was initially sold as a $940 billion price tag has since been estimated at $2.6 trillion, and some say that estimate will only escalate.  Just imagine if Wal-Mart missed its operating cost estimates by 300 per cent!  I suspect there would be some blue light specials on executive jobs.  This is another example of the law of unintended consequences.  You can quote me here folks...you ain’t seen nothing yet! 
    We are seeing government inefficiency already exploding in the role out of the 15,000 pages of regulations regarding ObamaCare.  And the waste keeps adding up like STDs at a hooker convention. And  these inefficiencies come at a high price tag, try $54 million just to hire new clerks to enroll folks in health exchanges.  If past history is any gauge, that will pay for ten technical school dropouts to be trained in Windows 98.  Most experts agree that we are nowhere close to having the infrastructure in place to do the simplest of tasks, like signing up people for their ObamaCare policies.  In fact,one official from the Medicare and Medicaid Services Department stated he was “pretty nervous” about the implementation of the program, following this with his hope that the enrollment period is “not a third world experience.” 
    Watch the enrollment process over the next year.  I suspect it will be a true harbinger of what is to come.

recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Rove writes, “The Affordable Care Act set aside 45 billion to subsidize, through 2014, coverage for an estimated 270,000 to 350,000 people with pre-existing conditions and no insurance. So far 135,000 have been covered but the $5 billion is nearly exhausted. Because of this HHS stopped signing up people in February”1