The Shining City Upon a Hill

[BillyCarpenter]

Biden encouraged by consumer interest in 'Obamacare' offer

President Joe Biden says it's an “encouraging sign" that more than 200,000 people have signed up for insurance coverage in the first two weeks after he reopened HealthCare


In a solid start, more than 200,000 people signed up for coverage the first two weeks after President Joe Biden reopened HealthCare.gov as part of his coronavirus response, the government said Wednesday.

Early consumer interest in the three-month special enrollment period shows pent-up demand for health insurance a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, with many people still unemployed or unable to work as many hours as before.

If the pace keeps up, “this special enrollment period could make a meaningful dent in the number of people uninsured,” said Larry Levitt, who tracks health insurance for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “The enrollment numbers so far are stronger than I would have expected.”



Biden called the sign-ups “an encouraging sign,” adding that “we can’t slow down until every American has the security and peace of mind that quality, affordable health coverage provides.”

Reopening the health insurance markets fits into Biden’s strategy of pushing the U.S. toward coverage for all by building on the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare.” HealthCare.gov offers taxpayer subsidized private health insurance, catering mainly to low- and moderate-income working people.

HealthCare.gov will be accepting applications through May 15, a stretch about twice as long as the regular annual open enrollment. The government has a $50 million advertising budget for the sign-up period, five times what the Trump administration would spend on annual open enrollment.

A lot of folks are barely hanging on financially due to the government imposed lockdowns. I'm sure socialist medicine is looking very attractive to them. In fact, one of the ways to get people to support socialismsis to force them to go broke and depend on the government.

[copier addict]

A lot of folks are barely hanging on financially due to the government imposed lockdowns. I'm sure socialist medicine is looking very attractive to them. In fact, one of the ways to get people to support socialismsis to force them to go broke and depend on the government.

You really should do some research on social democracy so you can at least sound intelligent when you speak about it. I'm sure you will ignore this advice and continue on sounding uninformed.

[BillyCarpenter]

You really should do some research on social democracy so you can at least sound intelligent when you speak about it. I'm sure you will ignore this advice and continue on sounding uninformed.

I don't need your salesmanship on socialism under any name. Thank you very much. Your country can't even produce it's own vaccine.

[slimslob]

You really should do some research on social democracy so you can at least sound intelligent when you speak about it. I'm sure you will ignore this advice and continue on sounding uninformed.

The best example of a Socialist Democracy I know of from history was Hitler's NAZI Germany.

[copier addict]

The best example of a Socialist Democracy I know of from history was Hitler's NAZI Germany.

You have the same affliction as Billy. It involves the unwillingness to actually do any research, but forging ahead and sounding completely uninformed on the subject. I certainly appreciate the laughs, but it is at your expense.

[bsm2]

A lot of folks are barely hanging on financially due to the government imposed lockdowns. I'm sure socialist medicine is looking very attractive to them. In fact, one of the ways to get people to support socialismsis to force them to go broke and depend on the government.

YOU don't know socialist medicine is do you.
The ACA is NOT. If you don't work for a company you can buy Repeat BUY insurance. From private Healthcare companies.

Try google just once

Socialized medicine in its strictest sense, is a single-payer government-run and -delivered system. In a socialized medicine model, the government provides all services from your doctors and providers to the hospitals and other facilities, and all payments for those services.

[bsm2]

I don't need your salesmanship on socialism under any name. Thank you very much. Your country can't even produce it's own vaccine.

Keep bragging your States 44 out of 50 on vaccine distribution.
No offense

[BillyCarpenter]

Keep bragging your States 44 out of 50 on vaccine distribution.
No offense

That would be #1 in Canada's socialist country.

[bsm2]

The best example of a Socialist Democracy I know of from history was Hitler's NAZI Germany.

Failed history too
Unitary Nazi one-party fascist state under a totalitarian dictatorship

[BillyCarpenter]

Failed history too
Unitary Nazi one-party fascist state under a totalitarian dictatorship

Hitler was elected, dummy. Do you know why he was elected?



"It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too. The title of National Socialism was not hypocritical. The evidence before 1945 was more private than public, which is perhaps significant in itself. In public Hitler was always anti-Marxist, and in an age in which the Soviet Union was the only socialist state on earth, and with anti-Bolshevism a large part of his popular appeal, he may have been understandably reluctant to speak openly of his sources. His megalomania, in any case, would have prevented him from calling himself anyone's disciple. That led to an odd and paradoxical alliance between modern historians and the mind of a dead dictator. Many recent analysts have fastidiously refused to study the mind of Hitler; and they accept, as unquestioningly as many Nazis did in the 1930s, the slogan "Crusade against Marxism" as a summary of his views. An age in which fascism has become a term of abuse is unlikely to analyse it profoundly."