BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!

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This just in from CBS News. The numbers have been released by the administration and the total number of people signing up for Obamacare on day one is 6. Yes, 6 people. But not to worry. The numbers are getting better. By day 3 we're way up to 248 people. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57610328/obamacare-enrollment...

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obsession /ob·ses·sion/ (ob-sesh´un) a persistent unwanted idea or impulse that cannot be eliminated by reasoning.obses´sive

Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

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ob·ses·sion (b-sshn, b-)

n.

1. Compulsive preoccupation with an idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.

2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

ob·ses·sion

noun \äb-ˈse-shən, əb-\

: a state in which someone thinks about someone or something constantly or frequently especially in a way that is not normal

: someone or something that a person thinks about constantly or frequently

: an activity that someone is very interested in or spends a lot of time doing

Full Definition of OBSESSION

1

:  a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly :  compelling motivation <an obsession with profits>

2

:  something that causes an obsession

— ob·ses·sion·al adjective

— ob·ses·sion·al·ly adverb

See obsession defined for English-language learners »

See obsession defined for kids »

Examples of OBSESSION

1. He was fascinated by the actress and tracking her every move had become an obsession.
2. She has an obsession about cleanliness.
3. Her concern about cleanliness approaches the level of obsession.
4. Money has become an obsession for him.

First Known Use of OBSESSION

1680

Related to OBSESSION

Synonyms

fetish (also fetich), idée fixe, mania, fixation, preoccupation, prepossession

Related Words

monomania; complex, hang-up, problem, trip; appetite, cacoëthes, compulsion, craving, desire, drive, enthusiasm, fascination, hankering, hunger, infatuation, itch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, urge, yearning, yen; idiosyncrasy, quirk; bent, disposition, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency

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Or as this group is named, CURRENT EVENTS and POLITICS. Can't get much more current than this. I/m sorry that you don't like anything that exposes Obama Problem, but this is a bulls eye of what this group is suppose to be. You might not like it, but it is fact.

[ProblemAgain]

notice the word placement...."Obama Problem"....yep, it's an obsession....same as it was for him on eons and has been since obama was nominated. while he may not be the best we could have, he is the best we do have when the absolute trainwreck of gop candidates is considered. and to claim that he knows everything that happens in his administration is as patently foolish and offensive as to claim you knew everything that happened in your own dollar stores. and the absolutely obnoxious thing about you, cod, is that you know it and still persist in trying to portray yourself as a sentient being unclouded by bigotry and prejudice.  yes the rollout of obamacare has a glitched website.....but to scream that the whole program is a failure and  that everyone in the administration knew it would be is like declaring the movie a disaster cause it had a bad poster

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What is interesting is that the site did enroll anyone, much less 6, so...maybe the number was just what happened at the successful state exchanges...which actually makes this...well, even more interesting.

Remember, the start out plan was that initially, based on RomneyCare...enrollment activity will be low as people shop...oh, wait, most can't, yet.  

As to whether 6 or 258, or whatever the October number will be, means that there is a way to go to get 7 million enrolled in ObamaCare, which is the actuarial, critical mass that has been set as the needed launch number.  However, even 7 million needs to have a certain demographics, of which, if the immortals are not enrolled the whole thing teeters on solubility.  Worse, if the many of the new enrollees are Medicaid eligibles that have been not been previously identified, and now enrolled, the numbers for ObamaCare are even more problematic.  

And yes, it still is too early, but then again was speculating not a part of the media's daily Joe.....

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Only the Fed.  The states that have their own are doing pretty good.

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Obamacare's Disastrous Debut Hasn't Changed Americans' Feelings About the Law

By John Tozzi November 01, 2013

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Photograph by Yoon S. Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Cathey Park of Cambridge, center, watches President Obama speak at Faneuil Hall to bolster support for his national health care law in Boston on Oct. 30

You’d think the bungled debut of healthcare.gov—turns out only six people managed to enroll in health plans on the first day—would sour Americans’ opinion of health reform. Not so much, according to the latest poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The chunk of Americans who didn’t like the Affordable Care Act before the launch still don’t; no surprise there. That number has consistently been a bit above 40 percent since early 2011. The slightly smaller share of people who support the law also didn’t budge, coming in around 38 percent, consistent with the past two years. Both numbers are statistically unchanged since last month, given the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The opinions split predictably along political party lines, with most Democrats supporting and most Republicans opposing. It’s likely that some of those who view the law unfavorably are liberals who think it doesn’t go far enough: 40 percent of Democrats want the law expanded.

BLOG: Obamacare's a Mess. Why Are Republicans So Nervous?

Kaiser researchers randomly called 1,513 Americans from Oct. 17-23, on the heels of the 16-day government shutdown. The polling period ended before the news that dominated headlines this week: that insurance companies are canceling individual health plans that don’t meet the law’s new standards.

The White House evidently got a pass for October’s ugly rollout from supporters who still like Obamacare. But healthcare.gov is still crippled a month after opening. If the problems aren’t fixed soon, the administration may find the law’s supporters running out of patience. Nearly half of all respondents said the federal government is doing a “poor” job of implementing the law.

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I got another theory about why Rs are so nervous...

After 8 years of planning, scheming, and deliberately bankrupting the country in order to try to blame and defund Social Security and Medicare by Cheney/Bush43, this was supposed to be the year(s) the Rs could get rid of what they call "the evil socialist communist entitlements".  Instead they got a new entitlement.

I almost makes one believe in God, man.....

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"the total number of people signing up for Obamacare on day one is 6. Yes, 6 people. But not to worry. The numbers are getting better. By day 3 we're way up to 248 people." Base2Final

 Actually...

Under the Affordable Care Act, states are encouraged—and financially incentivized to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars—to expand Medicaid eligibility to a wider swath of low-income individuals and families. In the enlightened states [those with Democrats in the Governor’s mansion and/or a Democratic majority in their states’ legislatures] that have not blindly rejected Medicaid expansion, new enrollments in Medicaid are trending up and are expected to grow.

Overall, in 24 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that are going ahead with Medicaid expansion, more than 8.7 million people are expected to be newly enrolled, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Click here for a chart that shows the status of Medicaid expansion state-by-state.

Think Progress  surveyed news reports from the states that have chosen to expand Medicaid under ACA and found that “the program is responsible for thousands and of new enrollments and appears more successful in enrolling uninsured Americans than private insurers operating in the exchanges.”

CONNECTICUT: Of the 3,847 individuals who signed up for coverage, 1,857 qualified for Medicaid, 1,897 signed up for plans with one of the three private insurance carriers, and 93 qualified for the Children’s Health Insurance Plan. Of the individuals who signed up with private carriers, 772 won’t receive a subsidy and 1,125 will receive a federal subsidy to lower their monthly premium.” [CT News Junkie]

MARYLAND: “About 82,500 people had signed up for Maryland’s expanded Medicaid program as of Friday, more than 30 times the 2,300 Marylander’s who managed to enroll through the state’s insurance exchange.” [Politico]

OREGON: “Though Oregon’s health insurance exchange is not yet up and running, the number of uninsured is already dropping thanks to new fast-track enrollment for the Oregon Health Plan. The low-income, Medicaid-funded program has already signed up 56,000 new people, cutting the state’s number of uninsured by 10 percent, according to Oregon Health Authority officials.” [The Oregonian]

ILLINOIS: “The sign-up process apparently hasn’t been as difficult for Illinoisans poor enough to qualify for the health-care law’s federally funded expansion of Medicaid eligibility, which the General Assembly approved this year without a single Republican vote. Those applicants are routed to the state’s ABE website for Medicaid.” [The State-Journal Registrar]

WEST VIRGINIA: “More than 50,000 West Virginians have already enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program that was expanded under the Affordable Care Act….But most new Medicaid signups came through an auto-enrollment program DHHR began in the weeks leading up to the opening of the insurance marketplace.” [Charleston Daily Mail]

ARKANSAS: “After two weeks of enrollment, a total of 56,288 adults have told the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) they want to enroll in the “private option” health insurance program, [the state's Medicaid expansion] according to data released Tuesday. From Oct. 1 through Oct. 12, DHS received 1,509 applications through its state-run web portal and 1,119 telephone and paper applications. That is in addition to the 53,660* current DHS clients who have already been determined eligible and returned letters saying they wanted coverage.” [Arkansas Department of Human Services]

That’s good news in those states where the interests of all people are priorities. But it’s bad news for the hundreds of thousands of low-income people who are—once again—being left behind, in the 26 states where hating Obama and stopping his programs at any cost is more important than helping citizens gain access to the basic health services that they deserve. Because their states have rejected Medicaid expansion, an estimated 8 million people are expected to remain outside of the expanded healthcare coverage envisioned by the ACA.

Under the terms of the ACA, Medicaid coverage was intended to be expanded to all adults with incomes up to 138 percent above the federal poverty line (which amounts to $15,856 for an individual), money that would be covered by the federal government at 100 percent of cost until 2016, and at 90 percent thereafter.

However, under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the ACA in June 2012, the federal government was barred from mandating states to enact Medicaid expansions. As a result, an insurance coverage gap currently exists where millions of people making less than $11,500 per year ($23,500 for a family of four) will have too much income to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to receive federal subsidies when purchasing insurance on a state-run health exchange.

That is a sad commentary on the state of Republican state governance in America. We can only hope that the legislators who rejected Medicaid expansion will see the light–or the color of the federal money that they are turning down because it’s “tainted” by the President’s agenda–and get on board–or get voted out of power by the people they are screwing.