America is NOT Dead: Move along, everybody, nothing to see here

[chronovore]

I'm sick of caving to the right every single time. Good job.

Yeah, I want to take it a step further.

I'd like to see them docked pay for the days in which they're refusing to do their job, and/or be written up and fired, or whatever the equivalent is for government employees who are refusing to perform the duties in their job description.

Alternately, under the PATRIOT Act, I'd like to see the republicans declared "unlawful combatants," rounded up, and shipped to Guantanamo.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I think it's time to bring back the English and sort things out, playtime is over cowboys.

[Joe Molotov]

We've got enough welfare queens over here, thanks!

[Steve Contra]

We could use a lot more queens though

[Diunx]

This is pure anarchy!!!

[Great Rumbler]

36 hours to default!

[Diunx]

Will the dollar plummet or something?

[Joe Molotov]

The default has already shutdown NeoGAF. Thanks, Obama!

[Human Snorenado]

The default has already shutdown NeoGAF. Thanks, Obama!

Well, it's not all bad.

 

[Phoenix Dark]

The default has already shutdown NeoGAF. Thanks, Obama!

[Mupepe]

Holy shit.  I've never seen that gif, PD. 

[Joe Molotov]

They were attending the funeral of white america.

[headwalk]

paul mccartney was invited as the sole representative of all white people.

[brob]

Michelle w/ glasses

 

[Great Rumbler]

-Boehner's last ditch effort fell apart
-McConnell will accept a bill that gives the GOP essentially nothing

Everybody pack up and go home, it's over.

[Great Rumbler]

It's hilarious, really. The whole point of the shutdown was to damage Obamacare, but in the end all it does was draw attention away from the shaky first few weeks of the federal exchange.

[Diunx]

Well at least I got to rape some white people.

[Phoenix Dark]

Republicans continue to save Obama's ass 

People believe the Obamacare website isn't working due to the shutdown

[Mupepe]

Republicans continue to save Obama's ass 

People believe the Obamacare website isn't working due to the shutdown

I've been getting that damn "verification system is down" message for 16 fucking days   The worst part is that I have to go through the ENTIRE application every day just to find out at the end that it's down.  Please tell me as soon as I log in "Hey by the way, our verification system is down so your application can't be processed." 

I don't even qualify for a subsidy, I just want to view the damn marketplace.

[Mupepe]

You have started an application for health coverage, but our verification system is temporarily unavailable. Without completing verification, you cannot submit your application for an eligibility determination.

We will save your information and expect to resolve the problem within 24 hours. When you return, please review your entire application from beginning to end in order to receive your online eligibility results

Goddammit!

[Phoenix Dark]

You can actually just look at it without signing up now
https://www.healthcare.gov/ (click the Start Here button)

Fucking trainwreck though. I've heard calling works, but the site should be working by now. I've heard some people dismissing this as a temporary issue...but this greatly damages the law. The only way Obamacare will work is if enough young people sign up. But if your state hasn't set up its own exchange/website you're pretty much fucked.

Personally I would not have even opened an exchange in Texas, given how obstructionist the government has been there. They're systematically attempting to ruin it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

You can actually just look at it without signing up now
https://www.healthcare.gov/ (click the Start Here button)

Fucking trainwreck though. I've heard calling works, but the site should be working by now. I've heard some people dismissing this as a temporary issue...but this greatly damages the law. The only way Obamacare will work is if enough young people sign up. But if your state hasn't set up its own exchange/website you're pretty much fucked.

Personally I would not have even opened an exchange in Texas, given how obstructionist the government has been there. They're systematically attempting to ruin it.

It is a trainwreck, but I think it's one outside the scope of what was predicted (though, perhaps it should have been predicted...) The federal exchange was meant to be a backup to the individual state exchanges. However, fully 34 (!) states opted out of creating their own exchanges. So there's a huge burden at the federal level that was not anticipated.

That said GET YO SHIT TOGETHER, BARRY

[Mupepe]

You can actually just look at it without signing up now
https://www.healthcare.gov/ (click the Start Here button)

Fucking trainwreck though. I've heard calling works, but the site should be working by now. I've heard some people dismissing this as a temporary issue...but this greatly damages the law. The only way Obamacare will work is if enough young people sign up. But if your state hasn't set up its own exchange/website you're pretty much fucked.

Personally I would not have even opened an exchange in Texas, given how obstructionist the government has been there. They're systematically attempting to ruin it.

Well son of a fucking bitch.  I've been trying every day multiple times a day.  Thanks a lot, man!    Prices are a hell of a lot cheaper than I thought. 

[Phoenix Dark]

You can actually just look at it without signing up now
https://www.healthcare.gov/ (click the Start Here button)

Fucking trainwreck though. I've heard calling works, but the site should be working by now. I've heard some people dismissing this as a temporary issue...but this greatly damages the law. The only way Obamacare will work is if enough young people sign up. But if your state hasn't set up its own exchange/website you're pretty much fucked.

Personally I would not have even opened an exchange in Texas, given how obstructionist the government has been there. They're systematically attempting to ruin it.

It is a trainwreck, but I think it's one outside the scope of what was predicted (though, perhaps it should have been predicted...) The federal exchange was meant to be a backup to the individual state exchanges. However, fully 34 (!) states opted out of creating their own exchanges. So there's a huge burden at the federal level that was not anticipated.

That said GET YO SHIT TOGETHER, BARRY

While that's true, the Supreme Court decision that led to it occurred in the early summer of 2012. There was one entire year to get this right, and 90m was allegedly spent to do it. There were always going to be glitches of course, but nearly a month of the site not working...I didn't think that could happen.

I don't think the law should be delayed, but at this rate they should extend the deadline to sign-up from March to April or later.

I will say this though: we've received quite a wave of new patients due to the Medicaid expansion/increase in quality care; before the law we didn't accept Medicaid due to how poorly it pays providers, but that has changed for the better. And we've had many older white patients with southern drawls call up and almost whisper "...so uh...does Obamacare cover my kids' dental now?" 

[Mupepe]

The problem with delaying the deadline is that it will make 2014 pretty much exempt because of the requirement to have insurance for 9 out of the 12 months.  It's the same as what Republicans were basically suggesting with moving it to 2015.  Hopefully it all gets ironed out relatively quickly.

[Steve Contra]

I had to disengage from a converstion where someone was complaining that Obamacare didn't cover their dental and vision

[Great Rumbler]

I had to disengage from a converstion where someone was complaining that Obamacare didn't cover their dental and vision

It's almost like people don't understand what Obamacare actually is...

[Steve Contra]

Yup.  Most people who are against it it seem to think it is single payer

[Phoenix Dark]

The funniest thing is that some on the right who hate the law/view it at socialism actually want some type of single payer system. You can't have it both ways!

[Steve Contra]

Of course they do.  Fuck who doesn't want single payer, except for the wealthy?

[milchs evil twin]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-you-live-in-an-embarrassing-country,34238/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

[hampster]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/pandacam-is-coming-back-government-shutdown-national-zoo-98408.html

Pandacam saved

[Phoenix Dark]

TLDR recap of the last couple weeks

[benjipwns]

Of course they do.  Fuck who doesn't want single payer, except for the wealthy?

I'm not wealthy. 

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Steam trading cards are changing that. 

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