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khaoz
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24 Sep 2014, 7:09 pm

I live in a Republican state. People who were using traditional Medicaid were cut off beginning in July, even the elderly senior citizens so that the state could play their Obama rejection temper tantrum. The state implemented its own program at that time and is preparing now for open enrollment in the state operated system beginning in November. One of my sisters obtained a job as an "eligibility specialist" in the local office that administers to state rune programs such as SNAP and the replacement health care program, plus whatever other programs the state has for low income families.

My sister is still in training as she helps customers coming through the door on a daily basis. I visited her home tonight to look at some of her materials and training documents. This paperwork looks like someone put all the letters of the alphabet in a big tin popcorn container and just spackled them all over the pages. Nothing but confusion and ambiguity. Double talk mumbo-jumbo. I worked in health care administration, both civilian and military for a total of around eighteen years and consider myself reasonably literate in administrative gobbledygook, but this state run program is like hieroglyphs to me. She (sister) said they are getting ready to bring on 700 new "specialists" to prepare for new enrollment and the system has been going down 4-5 times an hour. This is a very small office, in a very small town, with two IT specialists located in the basement of a one floor building who cannot keep the system functional for 5 employees.

Where is the Conservative outrage at the supposed "incompetence?" Nowhere to be found. That is where. Of course there is not a nationally funded program trying to sabotage this program the way Obamacare has had to deal with.

And before someone says something about my sisters political leanings, I can tell you that she is politically vapid. 51yo and never even voted.

So, where is the outrage?



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24 Sep 2014, 8:13 pm

Republicans only complain about exorbitant spending when Democrats are in charge.



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24 Sep 2014, 9:11 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
Republicans only complain about exorbitant spending when Democrats are in charge.


And those are the blokes we called RINOs: Republican In Name Only. The truth is that the Republican party doesn't even have a clear set of ideologies, policies, and standards for it's members and it hasn't since Theodore Roosevelt (it didn't always before and in fact it started out a lot like the tea party or the libertarian party); don't get me wrong I have some mixed opinions but I seriously appreciate what Roosevelt did to wrest the country from the grip of labor bosses a.k.a. "trusts".

Btw, what did you comment have to do with the OP? Just sounds like irrelevant soapboxing on how hypocritical republicans are.


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