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OH, AGAIN? – AT 11:21 A.M. ET:  How many months, years, have the Obamacare brigades had to get it right?   If they can't handle the administration, how will they handle the medical care?  From The New York Times: 

About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected.

The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from congressional Democrats, also announced that it would give several million people more time to buy health insurance so they could comply with federal law and avoid tax penalties.

The incorrect insurance information is used in computing taxes. Consumers can expect to receive corrected data in the first week of March. With the new data, officials warned, some taxpayers will owe more and some will owe less.

Officials said they did not know why the error had occurred.

COMMENT:  It is true that many Americans who were formally uncovered before are now covered under Obamacare.  But it is also true that millions and millions of Americans who were satisfied with their medical care under previous plans are now very unhappy.  They're paying more, getting less, and getting less choice.  Obamacare is basically a wealth transfer scheme. 

Capable, non-ideological people could have corrected the problems in our health system without coming in like homewreckers.  But homewrecking is the Obama way.  Wreck the home first, then wreck the world.

February 20, 2015