Post Super Bowl Obamacare Schadenfreude Letdown

Even the sky weeps for the the Broncos.  Winter storm "Maximus", using the Weather Channels new naming system may be bringing snow to much of the east coast today, but we're safely on the wet side of the storm.  It's been raining hard here since early this morning, and we're expecting maybe an inch by the time it's all over.

Just because I didn't get to use them last night

Because of the run-up to the letdown Super Bowl, not much Obamacare Schadenfreude happened. Even Fox News Sunday was totally dominated by the sub Super Bowl.

Further evidence of the unworkability of the government roll out made the Washington Post this morning. We now find that once a mistake is into the system, it's impossible to correct; they haven't "built that part" yet:

HealthCare.gov can’t handle appeals of enrollment errors

Roughly 22,000 Americans have filed appeals with the government to try to get mistakes corrected, according to internal government data obtained by The Washington Post. They contend that the computer system for the new federal online marketplace charged them too much for health insurance, steered them into the wrong insurance program or denied them coverage entirely.

For now, the appeals are sitting, untouched, inside a government computer. And an unknown number of consumers who are trying to get help through less formal means — by calling the health-care marketplace directly — are told that HealthCare.gov’s computer system is not yet allowing federal workers to go into enrollment records and change them, according to individuals inside and outside the government who are familiar with the situation.

and it's my last excuse.

Rumors that Peyton Manning was quarterbacking the Obamacare rollout are being furiously pursued at this time.

Jazz Shaw at HotAir cites NROs Andrew McCarthy as demonstrating the insanity of Republicans allowing the conversation to be switch from Obamacare to immigration "reform."

I know… let’s forget about Obamacare and start a big immigration reform fight!

Now, with the Obamacare debacle getting worse by the day and teeing up as the defining issue of the 2014 midterm elections, Republican leadership has decided this is the perfect time to roll out an immigration-reform proposal (i) that has nothing to do with Obamacare and is certain to detract attention from its failure; (ii) that fraudulently proclaims “enforcement first” while actually prioritizing legal status for law-breakers, thereby encouraging more law-breaking and ensuring that enforcement never happens; (iii) that depends for enforcement on a president who has demonstrated that he will not enforce the immigration laws; and (iv) that will be deeply offensive to the GOP’s already disgruntled conservative base, ensuring that droves of them will sit out the 2014 midterms.

McCarthy describes this as sheer genius with tongue planted firmly in cheek. I really don’t understand what Boehner is even debating. (Unless, of course, he actually has no intention of moving on any immigration bills and is just paying lip service to keep the media interested.) There’s not going to be comprehensive immigration Big Bill on the floor without his approval, so the solution in this case should be to simply do nothing. And isn’t that supposed to be the one thing Congress is good at anyway? For face saving purposes, a series of small bills which toughen border security (though that still looks like a finger in the leaking dike scenario), give employers the tools to verify the immigration status of applicants and significantly toughen penalties for those who hire illegals could pass the House. Then, when Harry Reid or Barack Obama try the you won’t work on immigration reform line, you just remind them that you’ve already sent three bills over awaiting their signature, followed by, so… how’s that Obamacare thing working out?

You got a hammer?  Keep pounding that  nail.

Support for Obamacare suddenly plummets among the uninsured 

Today’s Kaiser tracking poll shows support for Obamacare plummeting — not with just anyone, but within the 15 percent of the population that is uninsured, the very people the law was supposed to help. The eight-point rise in disapproval of the law from November is pretty big, but the 12-point drop in approval is even bigger. People who thought they liked it seem to have changed their minds or at least or become undecided for some reason.

The result is a two-to one unfavorable ratio among the uninsured, whereas the gap among the public at large is just 50 percent unfavorable to 34 percent favorable.

Now why would you let them shift the focus to immigration?