"The Manhattan Institute received over $31 million in grants from 1985 to 2012, from foundations such as the Koch Family Foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, the Scaife Foundations, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. The Manhattan Institute does not disclose its corporate funding, but the Capital Research Center listed its contributors as Bristol-Myers Squibb, ExxonMobil, Chase Manhattan, Cigna, Sprint Nextel, Reliant Energy, Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, and Merrill Lynch. Throughout the 1990s the Tobacco industry was a major funding source for the institute."
"He is a contributor to National Review Online, where he was described as a member of Mitt Romney's Health Care Policy Advisory Group."
I'm sure the assumptions are fair and balanced though
How very RJ of you to refute the source without addressing or refuting the content.
That article also makes a lot of assumptions.
Inside the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the main agency responsible for the exchanges, there was no single administrator whose full-time job was to manage the project.
On Aug. 17, about six weeks before the launch date, a company employee sent an e-mail to a CMS staffer — with copies to more than a dozen other CMS staff members — detailing an “updated schedule” for work on the exchange. The e-mail, obtained by The Post, said that, for the tasks that CGI was responsible for, the exchange was 55 percent complete.
White House officials say they were focused on whether there would be enough insurance plans for sale in the new marketplaces and on whether enough people would enroll. They say they didn’t have a clue how troubled the Web site’s operation was.
Only during the weekend after HealthCare.gov’s Oct. 1 opening did the president’s aides begin to grasp the gravity of the problems, the White House official said. Obama soon began getting nightly updates on the performance of the Web site, which has still been unavailable to Americans for hours at a stretch over the past week.
But that was still to come. A month earlier, on Sept. 5, White House officials visited CMS for a final demonstration of HealthCare.gov. Some staff members worried that it would fail right in front of the president’s aides. A few secretly rooted for it to fail so that perhaps the White House would wait to open the exchange until it was ready.
Yet on that day, using a simplified demonstration application, the Web site appeared to work just fine.
The NYT editorial board said Obama "misspoke" when he made his "If you like it" statement. Well, yeah, if you call saying something over two dozen times misspeaking.
Do you really want to go down this road?
You're not actually gonna spin that bullshit are you?
CH, why so few carriers on the NC exchange? Are these really the only folks offering individual plans up to this point? I don't know, but I do know that in the past few years I had to purchase on the individual market and did so not via BC/BS or Coventry. So are some carriers that did supply now not able to on the exchange? Or what???
I assume all this varies state to state. And I'm wondering if there are places where some large/national companies are in a position to lose out under the exchanges??? Or not?
Question?
Policies for peeps who now have no insurance will have co-pays and deductibles??