"We Don't Take Obamacare." Family was Told.. But at Least it Cost More

Yes the insurance appeared to be cheaper. But if nobody takes it and you get no return for your money, the cost-benefit ratio is sky high.

 But the Robinsons soon learned the HMO Blue Cross Blue Shield plan they pay about $375 each month for wasn't quite what they expected. 

For example, when it came to finding an obstetrician in Texas for their upcoming baby earlier this year, Rachel said she called all 28 practices listed as acceptable options for their plan, but could find none to take her as a patient. 

“Some would just come right out and say, ‘We don’t take Obamacare,’” she said. ”Or the best one was, ‘The doctor takes it here at the actual practice, but whatever hospital you use … does not take that insurance.’”

Obamacare doesn't work. All the cries of "Racism" won't help a couple pay for the baby they are trying to have, or pay for the hospital visits after a car crash or any number of other things. These are the realities and as John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things." 

New Site Name, Same Great Taste

We are now www.conservativeyoda.com. The old link will still work but we are looking to update a bit. We'll be doing a site redesign and maybe moving from here to Wordpress as they do better with the podcasting. Thanks for your support and if you like what's happening here, spread the word!

@Toure May Be the Most Hateful Stupid Person at MSNBC... and That's Saying Something

What makes me so upset? This twit.. I mean tweet:

The power of whiteness: RT @hope_and_chains: My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work.
— Touré (@Toure) May 23, 2014

Surviving the holocaust is skin color based now? Even if he means making it work coming over here was somehow a white power, I'd like him to go to some of the poor white areas and tell me all about the "power of whiteness."

Toure I would assume thinks that racism is bad. To use racism to fight it however makes him a grade A hypocrite. In our last podcast, we spoke of not moving the conversation forward because of tainted thinking. Jill Abramson couldn't get past the idea of victims and oppressors. In the modern era, this is outdated thinking. Sure, in Iran, Nigeria, Burma, and most of the Islamic dictatorships there are victims and oppressors, a cause Toure doesn't seem to muster a lot of enthusiasm for. But being white is not a superpower. I truly believe that Toure thinks this video is real:

It's not. It's satire Toure. It's damn funny satire showing that perhaps your view of a black and white race based world is absurd. Progressives like Toure haven't actually progressed. They are living in the past and cannot see past skin color. It's sad. At least free speech has let us identify this idiot for the racist he really is.

Obamacare Incompetence Roundup

Cover Oregon Director was shown the door after the mess that was Oregon's Obamacare website. His punishment? He still gets to collect his 14k a month paycheck.

The resignation was “effective immediately,” said officials in the governor’s office. 

Or so we thought. 

It turns out, Goldberg never really left and is now drawing a full-time salary from the state. Oregon officials confirm Goldberg returned to full-time status at the Oregon Health Authority on May 15 and will use his accrued vacation pay until July 18. 

He’s getting paid $14,425 a month.

The administration won't release enrollment numbers anymore anyway so Oregon's failure sounds like it's the tip of the iceberg.

During the initial open enrollment period, the Obama administration released monthly enrollment reports that — even if they were exasperatingly incomplete and/or doctored in what data they chose to reveal — gave us at least some sort of idea of what was going on with the president’s crowning legislative achievement. Now that the Obama administration has that alleged 8 million sing-ups number to tout, however, they evidently no longer feel the need to even keep up the pretense of releasing regular reports on the law’s progress.

Well we lied about the initial numbers so why keep giving them? It interrupts our being lazy.

One of the reasons they touted having Obamacare was that people without coverage would use emergency rooms since they didn't have insurance. Now that 8 million do (uh-huh) at least the frequency of visits would go down now, right? Nope.

The ObamaCare boosters in the mainstream liberal media are once again avoiding negative news on the health care law’s unintended consequences. According to a study released Wednesday by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), emergency room visits are on the rise, in spite of promises to the contrary by supporters of ObamaCare.

Well don't worry. With all the money they haven't saved, they've used it to buy 21 helicopters for just one president. Like Mr. Burns said "I like to put my feet up."

There is much huffing and puffing by Navy officers and elected officials that such a debacle will not recur — and it may not. And yet… Gizmag reports that this is “initial US$1.24 billion contract is for six S-92 helicopters and two trainer simulators for the US Marine Corps as part of a development and conversion program that will see a fleet of 21 aircraft built for presidential use by 2023.” 

$1.24 billion is a lot of money.  For six helicopters and two simulators. 

Then, presumably, many more dollars to scale up to 21 “aircraft built for presidential use.” 

This columnist might find no sum excessive to protect the United States of America from (to appropriate and adapt a phrase from MoveOn.org) the three most frightening words in the English language, “President Joe Biden.” Yet … the delivery of these craft will occur much too late to fulfill such a noble mission. 

And… 21? 

To transport one president? 

Really?

Really. The boy king needs his carriages.

Carpool Conversations Episode IV (and V?) Double Sized #Podcast - New York Times, Batman, and Indiana Jones

Part 1


Part 2


So we went a little haywire and decided on a double sized podcast. We start out with the Time firing Jill Abramson (Yes, I looked up her name later.) She may have or not have a case regarding her pay but the point we are trying to make is beyond that, we are talking about the liberal mindset and how it taints these kinds of discussions.

Then we dovetail into the Agents of Shield and the differences between the DC and Marvel attempts at creating franchises, and finally into Batman, the Man of Steel, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

We'll get a little more into politics the next time. Maybe. Or not. Who knows, these aren't scripted folks. Enjoy!

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Krugtron proved wrong again! Said VA is model of Health Care in 2011

Ah Paul. What would we do without you. Oh right, we would be able accurately inform the public.

Oops, in 2011 Krugman pointed to VA as model for health reform. I'm making it a picture so more people will look. pic.twitter.com/O47JXbw85U
— Robert P. Murphy (@BobMurphyEcon) May 22, 2014

How does this man continue working?

Here's the point: No matter how good a government run service starts, it will always descend into chaos because, as George Will said, when there is no penalty for failure, failure will run rampant.

How Many Misstatements can Obama Make In One Article? Let's See....

Via Breitbart:

“The problem is not that the Democrats are overly ideological -- because the truth of the matter is, is that the Democrats in Congress have consistently been willing to compromise and reach out to the other side,” Obama said.

Sure they have.

“All of you look the same and I look like Morgan Freeman,” he said after pointing out some of his old friends from his days in Chicago.

Let's link me to a trusted actor whose played a president with gravitas in the movies. Let's put that false equivalence in your mind.

“There’s a tendency to say, a plague on both your houses. But the truth of the matter is that the problem in Congress is very specific,” he added, citing the Republican Party.

Yeah, it's all Republican's fault. No fault on your side at all. You didn't just overhaul the health care system and make it worse completely on party lines.

Obama explained that he was committed to addressing climate, but Republicans continued to “deny the science.”

Only science I agree with is accurate.

 “And I know it's hard to talk about global warming here in Chicago after this winter,” he joked. “But everybody here understands that it's changing weather patterns that are at stake here, with potentially devastating, catastrophic consequences.”

We know it's been colder lately, like for the last 2 decades, but really. It's warming. Trust me.