{"id":39797,"date":"2013-11-24T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/its-a-debacle-a-debacle-i-say.html"},"modified":"2013-11-24T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:06:46","slug":"its-a-debacle-a-debacle-i-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/its-a-debacle-a-debacle-i-say.html","title":{"rendered":"It's a DEBACLE, a DEBACLE I say!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Except, it seems, when you poke at a lot of these stories that make for such great headlines and URGENT BREAKING NEWS LIVE BROADCAST segments on the (hey, aren't they supposed to be left-wing?) media, they turn into something quite other than a "debacle."<\/p>\n

I'm fine with running stories about how the ACA is actually falling short, from the (federal) website problems to the problems facing working poor in states that chose not to extend Medicaid. But a lot of the breathless commentary on supposed problems with the ACA that really aren't (see also\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/Um2E3J<\/a>,\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/9eH8yN<\/a>, http:\/\/goo.gl\/j8FlwK<\/a>, http:\/\/goo.gl\/5nwkXm<\/a>) does little to actually help anyone … except for politicians that want to bash the White House and Democrats.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Debunking Obamacare sob story<\/a>
\n That horror story of the Obamacare fail for the Federal Way mom isn\u2019t the horror it was made out to be. They usually aren\u2019t. \n <\/p>\n

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Except, it seems, when you poke at a lot of these stories that make for such great headlines and URGENT BREAKING NEWS LIVE BROADCAST segments on the (hey, aren't they supposed to be left-wing?) media, they turn into something quite other than a "debacle." I'm fine with running stories about how the ACA is actually … Continue reading “It's a DEBACLE, a DEBACLE I say!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/the-problems-with-sex-offender-registry-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":39797,"position":0},"title":"The problems with sex offender registry laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Aug-14 12:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems like a great idea: keep a system of state databases of convicted sex offenders so that police, and even parents, can keep track of these predators, and force them to both check in with the cops regularly and restrict their access to children. \u00a0What could go wrong?Well, just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41409,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/b5-rewatch-s2e10-gropos.html","url_meta":{"origin":39797,"position":1},"title":"B5 Rewatch: 2×10 "GROPOS"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Mar-14 10:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After the WHAMfest that was \"The Coming of Shadows,\" \"GROPOS\" couldn't possibly measure up. 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