WesterCon, Job Numbers, and Obamacare, Oh My!
July 2nd, 2010 | by Sqotty |I am sitting in the hotel lobby of WesterCon, in Pasadena, CA. Kind of a slow convention thus far, but there are some good science panels slated for today and tomorrow.
Meanwhile, watching CNN, they talk about the “2 million” jobs that the stimulus has created or saved. How do they count this? They claim a direct job, the guy building a house for the example, indirectly creates other jobs, like the guys producing lumber or concrete, and then more indirect jobs via spending his hard earned pay. Can we say “shell game”? Maybe a little hocus-pocus misdirection is more accurate. Meanwhile, CNN ignores the fact that unemployment is still hovering near the 10% mark, over 6 million jobs lost, the fraud of over-reporting new jobs by the Census.
Now we learn that ObamaCare isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. From The Hill:
The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured.
Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the program sunsets and health plans can no longer discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.
Administration officials insist they can make changes to the program to ensure it lasts until 2014, and that it may not have to turn away sick people. Officials said the administration could also consider reducing benefits under the program, or redistributing funds between state pools. But they acknowledged turning some people away was also a possibility.
All in all, you get what you pay for, and when you put government in charge of your health, expect the worst.
Tags: American Politics, Jobs, Obamacare, Unemployment, WesterCon
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