Post-Fishing Obamacare Schadenfreude

I left earlier this morning to try to find the bite at "Location X."  What I found was 21 boats, including some of the usual suspects all milling around, not catching much.  I put in a little time, and caught two small stripers, doubling yesterday's catch, decided it wasn't worth the trouble and came in by 10 AM. Maybe I'll put a picture in later if find a good one. UPDATE: Here you go!

The big news in Obamacare Schadenfreude is, of course, that with the "final" enrollment period over the administration is doing a victory dance, claiming to have "enrolled" 7.1 million people.

WAPO: Here’s why it doesn’t matter that 7M signed up for Obamacare

Al Jezeera: Don't Pop The Cork for ‘Obamacare’

Ace: Most Obamacare "Sign-Ups"Stemmed From Two Modest Changes in the Law

The Hill: Obama: Future HealthCare.gov outages ‘won’t be news’

The Federalist: Can Anyone Tell How Obamacare Is Doing? - An interesting graph (I like graphs):

See any pattern here?

Wall Street Journal: Yes, We Can Wait: Want medical insurance? Get in line.

Stacy McCain: Yes, ObamaCare Kills Jobs

File this under “Not Exactly News.” Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of basic economics understood that the complex and burdensome system of mandates in ObamaCare would impede job creation. But nothing is true until the “experts” say so, I guess:

The Republicans just got a big gift from the Congressional Budget Office: It’s going to be a lot easier for them to call Obamacare a “job killer.”
That’s because the budget office’s new economic report, released Tuesday, says the health care law will cause Americans to work fewer hours — enough to be the equivalent of 2 million fewer jobs in 2017.
The latest number is nearly three times as high as the budget office’s previous prediction, and it’s supposed to rise in later years to the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs in 2024. . . .

There are two Americas. In one America, people understand economics. In the other America, people vote for Democrats.

It might help to read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. Just sayin’ . . .

The democrats war on cancer victims continues unabated:

HotAir: Anti-Obamacare cancer patient smeared by Reid now receiving death wishes from liberals

Die, because your experience is inconvenient to my “pissed off” ideology. Incidentally, Ms. Boonstra isn’t the only Obamacare victim who received a cancellation notice, and whose subsequent plan presents out-of-pocket hardships:

Washington Examiner: Harry Reid dismisses cancer patient Tom Coburn's Obamacare concern

Conservative Intelligence Briefing: Obamacare and how Democrats lost the senior citizen vote

But when Obamacare was debated and passed, the Democrats’ edge with seniors on Medicare quickly vanished. The GOP took a narrow two-point average advantage in the five polls that asked between 2009 and 2010. And although Democrats later reclaimed a small edge, the 2012 election was the first since at least 1996 (and possibly ever) in which senior citizens trusted a Republican nominee over a Democrat on the issue of Medicare. Mitt Romney enjoyed an average five-point advantage among seniors in 17 polls that asked about Medicare in 2012.

Obama may have won the youth for Democrats — at least for a brief moment, since that seems to be changing — but he’s also lost them the reliable support of older voters who are far more likely to turn out.

HotAir: DNC -No, I can’t think of a “specific bill” or  I would fix about ObamaCare

So much for "Mend it, don't end it."

And in the Continuing Follies Department: 

CBS: Covered California Sends Deaf Callers To Hotline Offering ‘Hot Ladies’

A page on the site where users can calculate the cost of coverage lists an incorrect phone number as 1-888-899-4500. The number, which was correct on the Contact Us page, is similar, but just one digit off: 1-888-889-4500.

White House Dossier: Expert Hacks Healthcare.gov in 4 Minutes

In what sense is a broken website “fixed” when it’s completely insecure?

Security consultant David Kennedy, who has testified before Congress about the flaws in Healthcare.gov that have made people’s information unsafe, revealed Monday he was able to gain access to the personal records of 70,000 Obamacare enrollees in four minutes.

“It looks like it’s continuing to get worse,” Kennedy said of the website’s security fiasco.

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