The Affordable Care Act is running into its fair share of problems in
terms of its web presence due to a rush-job of a website, but overall
the act appears to be succeeding at its intended job of helping American
citizens find affordable health care insurance options. CNN interviewed
Kentucky governor Steve Beshear about how the program was working in
his home state, and evidently it's doing rather well with approximately
1,000 people signing up daily through Kentucky's own program.
When CNN then interviewed North Carolina Representative Renee Ellmers,
the facts of Kentucky's success could do nothing to dissuade her from
the talking point that Obamacare is "[A] failure at the greatest level
and should be an embarassment to the president and his administration."
The only legitimate complaint that Ellmers used was how abominable
the Obamacare website actually is. The rest of her arguments were either
hopelessly vague, such as having a nameless constituent whose premiums
allegedly increased by 400% - though from what to what was not disclosed
- or just flat-out nonsensical. Governor Beshear made mention that
Medicare took a good two or three years to work out the kinks when it
was implemented 50 years ago, which Ellmers somehow twisted into
indignant outrage that she is not going to wait 50 years for Obamacare
to be functional.
CNN host Carol Costello deserves a fair amount of praise for holding
Ellmers feet to the fire and calling out the representative's
mealy-mouthed attempts at civility, responding to Ellmers' "I appreciate
the governor's remarks," with an emphatic, "You don't!"
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