Obamacare Stories to Laugh About

Obamacare is becoming rather entertaining:

1. The much-touted Obamacare "first enrollee" was a fraud. Chad Henderson took Politico, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post (among others) for a spin, then subsequently admitted he hasn't enrolled after all.
2. The Obamacare national hotline phone number 1-800-F**KYO
3. The official Obamacare Facebook page is "riddled with people expressing sticker shock over the government's high cost premiums."
4. An HHS-run website of the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) "was apparently hacked as long as two months ago," and dozens of pages hawking retail merchandise have been uploaded to the SAMHSA site, ranging from NFL jerseys to Ugg shoes to Armani fragrances. Screenshots here.
5. Few of the Obamacare exchange websites are functioning as they are supposed to. Now we learn a Canadian tech firm -- "a darling of the Obama administration, which since 2009 has bestowed it with $1.4 billion in federal contracts, according to USAspending.gov" -- "is behind the glitch-ridden United States health care exchange site healthcare.gov." With all the bright tech minds in the U.S., the Obama Administration chose to outsource enrollment in his only legislative achievement!
6. By law, Congress and its staff are required to move from the federal employees health insurance system to the Obamacare exchanges on Dec 31. They howled about the cost differential (and some staffers threatened to quit), so the Obama administration arbitrarily granted them a special government subsidy to offset the high cost even though most of them earn far too much to qualify for a subsidy under the law. Now they learn the administration will only grant them a government subsidy if they purchase one of the "gold-tier" health plans with much higher premiums than the silver and bronze plans. It's delicious that Congress will have to live under at least one law that it foisted on the rest of the country!