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yesterday we talked about how the
logic seems to have completely escaped
the discussions about the Obamacare web portal and the phone number both the
which because it's such high interest levels
in the Affordable Care Act programs are
not working well right and and I made a couple different
analogy saying that no win no other area would we say that because something is
to popular we would cancel it entirely
and that they would it would be determined to have no merits will bill
or our good friend old friend to the show bill share
as a great article in the week which I encourage you to look at where he talks
about how there are actually
even if we put aside for second the absurdity
above it's so popular that there's
there's problems with access so we should cancel the whole thing
putting that aside for second-lowest they're actually he cites five different
examples of government programs that we now consider to be just
we would never consider canceling them that all during the initial rollout
phases had problems I'm gonna tell you about
three of these programs and this is again
you need to be armed with backed data
logic and rational analyses when you talk to people who increasingly
are totally divorced from any semblance the reality on these issues and the
Obamacare website thing
to me Lewis right now is the epitome ove
absolutely no critical thinking going on now now now but it's just a all part of
this
I fear mentality everyone's afraid a bit they think it's going to destroy the
world
so if they have to try and find flaws with a wherever they can
so is bill share rights social security in the social security programs early
days
many employers failed to include worker names and their new social security
numbers in their earnings report
and this left the government without the basic information needed to calculate
benefits and actually cut checks
of course now that crisis the social security crisis that took place at the
beginning
is completely dismissed as a blip on the radar
while Social Security historians you the effort to build a nationwide social
insurance program from scratch before
computers were even used as
amazing but again in those first weeks and months considered a disaster
what a terrible idea because employers didn't break down the social security
numbers another example medicare
initially with the medicare program up more than 700,000
eligible seniors initially refused to sign up because they
mistakenly believed that if they signed up for medicare they would give up
their social security benefits that's not the case
some southern cities were left without a single participating hospital
because the Medicare law required hospitals to comply with the with the
then-new
Civil Rights Act many in the south at the time were still segregated
again wow what a disaster what a terrible launch
now medicare is widely considered a
an establishment of american society seniors
love it seniors overwhelmingly believe that medicare is a
excellent program and the third example that bill share sites
is the Medicare prescription drug benefit which back in 2005 the Bush
administration rolled it out
medicare part d- any provide seniors with coverage for prescription drugs
something medicare previously not
due to a large extent the debut was bi de Velde
by website problems the Washington Post noted
at the time that the launch was delayed twice over the course of course
only one month and on the day that it actually launch quote
listen to this visitors to the site could not access it
for most of the first to hours when it finally did come up
it operated awfully so what slowly widespread popularity now
no one now saying we never should have started Medicare Part D
because when it launched the website wasn't working properly
so when you come across people whether whether it online whether it on Facebook
Twitter
at the water cooler at work in your personal life in your family life
be armed with data and Bill share up
expertly presenting this Louis yeah
nice article and it as if we should even have to be a deep on
yes I L i'd like it's like a tactical technical glitch or hold up has anything
to do with that the merits of the program