Bob's Rants......: Obama on the Offensive

President Obama went on the offensive (again) today, trying to put a different face on the flop known as the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Some say this is about the 12 time in his five year White House residency that he's had to go out and defend something.

This time the president is trying to show 'the good' Obamacare has done. The goal here is to take the sting out of what has been a disaster. Obama hopes his daily trumpeting of how great he thinks his signature law is will take people's mind off of how bad it actually is. Don't think it's going to work, Sir. Just ask the 5.6 million people you managed to kick off their current plans and are

now dangling out there in"no insurance land" because your health care web site's a bust also. The administration says the website, Healthcare.Gov is better than it was when it rolled out on Oct. 1. However there is still mucho problems with it, as many are finding. Obama thinks if 80 per cent of Americans trying to use the site get through it successfully in signing up for insurance than the site is a winner. Really? A 20 per cent failure rate is okay? Think those 20 per cent who can't get through are going to like their status as failures? Imagine if Amazon.com or Ebay.com had a 20 per cent failure rate. They wouldn't be in business long. But, we're dealing with the federal government here...not known for being very successful at running any type of program.

The website, over time will get better and , in fact, one day may be 100 per cent. The website alone isn't going to doom Obamacare. There is another little (now huge) problem that may just bring the

whole thing down. The success of Obamacare depends on young people coming on board. These are "kids" (my age allows me to call them that) 18 - 34 years of age. About 40 per cent of all enrollees were supposed to be the "kids." The administration was counting on them to fund the program. But guess what? It's not happening. Click the link to read why the Young'uns Ain't Buyin' It

The president and his 'minions' apparently were pretty short-sighted when they dreamed up this fiasco to think that strong healthy young people were going to come on board, especially when you factor in the 'extremely few number of visits to the doctor' by this group. Obama was planning on these people funding the health woes of people like me. Needless to say, our president blew it and somewhere down the road, soon, he'll have to go on the offensive (again) to defend this too.