{"id":60593,"date":"2016-10-13T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60593"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:37:13","slug":"blind-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60593","title":{"rendered":"Blind Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Dayton admits Obama care is a flaming goat rode<\/a>o.<\/p>\n

On its surface, the story is about one of the most left of center governors in America throwing Obamacare under the bus. And that’s all interesting, don’t get me wrong.<\/p>\n

But the governor \u2013 and depressed it’s been covering for him for six years \u2013 is counting on you,or at least the mainstream Minnesota medias audience,forgetting a few things. He overrode the legislatures decision to get out of the Obama care exchanges. Then, he presided over one of the two or three most botched attempts to build an exchange. MNSure’s gestation was protracted, obscenely costly, and a technical nightmare. And for all that, the products that delivers \u2013 with soaring prices, ballooning deductibles and lower availability and choice \u2013 are worse.<\/p>\n

The media coverage of the governors admission that the Minnesota state exchange, and Obamacare itself, has worked out very badly, tends to portray the governor as a kindly but well meeting fellowadmitting that his ministration’s signature product has had some teething problems.<\/p>\n

It’s much, much worse than that.<\/p>\n

Before Obamacare and MNSure, Minnesota had the best level of health insurance in the United States; between public and private plans, 92% of the states population was covered..<\/p>\n

Proponents of the state\/federal plans claim that number is up to 96%, today.  And that maybe true \u2013 but more and more people are hanging onto that insurance \u2013 policies much bigger than they need, with higher premiums, and deductibles that in many cases will bankrupt families  (What, you could pay her $12,000 a year deductible, along with 20% coinsurance?)<\/p>\n

And people wonder why the media obsesses about things Donald Trump said on the TV 11 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Dayton admits Obama care is a flaming goat rodeo. On its surface, the story is about one of the most left of center governors in America throwing Obamacare under the bus. And that’s all interesting, don’t get me wrong. But the governor \u2013 and depressed it’s been covering for him for six years \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mnsure-debacle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60594,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions\/60594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}