Report: Obama Will Shed More Tears to Get Policies Enacted

Eager Beavers
Eager to maximize coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration has allowed large numbers of people to sign up for insurance after the deadlines in the last two years, destabilizing insurance markets and driving up premiums, health insurance companies say.

The administration has created more than 30 “special enrollment” categories and sent emails to millions of Americans last year urging them to see if they might be able to sign up after the annual open enrollment deadline. But, insurers and state officials said, the federal government did little to verify whether late arrivals were eligible.

That has allowed people to wait until they become ill or need medical services to sign up, driving up costs broadly, insurers have told federal health officials. (New York Times, 1/10/2016)

There has got to be a secret plan underlying Obamacare, right? Nothing this screwed up could ever be devised. Now we think we have a possible answer. Democrats purposefully created an unworkable law as a segue-way to what they really wanted: single payer. They will say: "Well, we tried to come up with a solution that utilized the private sector, but it was just unworkable. This is why we need a healthcare system run by government."


Monsters Ball
Four teenagers suspected of taking turns raping an 18-year-old woman at gunpoint at a Brooklyn playground after ordering her father to leave her side were taken into custody on Sunday, the police said.

The brazen attack on Thursday night, which the police said was carried out by the four teenagers along with another young man who remains at large, set off waves of fear and uncertainty in the Brownsville neighborhood where it happened. Elected officials also questioned whether the police notified the public quickly enough after the attack, a suggestion that the Police Department strongly contested.

Two teenagers, ages 14 and 15, were turned in to police custody by their parents; the two others, ages 15 and 17, were apprehended by the authorities, the police said. Charges against them were pending. (New York Times, 1/11/2016)

Prediction. Ten years from now Al Sharpton will succeed in getting these monsters released from prison. He will say there was a "rush to judgment." They will sue the city of New York and be awarded millions of dollars. Remember then that you read it here at RedStateVT first.