Only 5% to 15% of Obamacare applicants have actually paid...

The final number is expected to be 50%. So, you should divide those dismal numbers the administration is touting by 2.

“There is also a lot of worrying going on over people making payments,” industry consultant Robert Laszewski wrote in an email. “One client reports only 15% have paid so far. It is still too early to know for sure what this means but we should expect some enrollment slippage come the payment due date.”
Another consultant Kip Piper, agreed. “So far I’m hearing from health plans that around 5% and 10% of consumers who have made it through the data transfer gauntlet have paid first month’s premium and therefore truly enrolled,” he wrote me…
Blue Shield of California said it has sent out thousands of payment request letters…
While saying it is difficult to guess what will happen, Piper said he believes “a plan will be lucky if half of applicants pay first month’s premium on time for January coverage start but that perhaps three-quarters will pay in time for coverage start by February or March.”

Scott Brown's pickup truck is in New Hampshire...

The RINO is strong in Scott Brown, but he would be better than demo Jeanne Shaheen.

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — The trademark pickup truck rolled up to the Harold Square restaurant here one rainy night last week and out popped Scott P. Brown, the former senator from Massachusetts. He had been a senator for only three years, but that was long enough to whet his appetite for more.

But for more what, precisely? Mr. Brown, a noncandidate in perpetual campaign mode, is not saying.

He is openly toying with some options, like running for the Senate next year in New Hampshire. He has also visited Iowa to test the presidential waters and may be positioning himself as a potential vice-presidential pick. Not under consideration, apparently, is any office in his home state of Massachusetts, where a Senate seat is also up next year.

“I know there’s a lot of curiosity and interest as to what my future plans are,” he told reporters waiting for him in Londonderry, where he was the main attraction at a meet-and-greet with local Republicans. “Nothing’s really changed since the last time we’ve seen each other, which is more often than not.”

That is to say, while he has made numerous visits recently to New Hampshire, where he has long owned a vacation home, he still has not decided whether to challenge Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, who is seeking re-election.

Fantasy Land: Ryan-Murray budget deal delays spending cuts until 2022...

If you don't understand these proposed future spending cuts won't ever happen, just consider what the current deal does to the current Sequester cuts. They are being gutted. These proposed cuts would have to survive another 8 budget years and several new budget deals. It all a fantasy and Ryan is an idiot for agreeing to it. No wonder Barack Obama approves.

Via Breitbart:

The budget deal announced Tuesday by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) would boost federal spending by around $65 billion over the next two years. This new spending is offset by increasing user fees, boosting pension contributions by federal employees and the military, and other minor changes. Ryan and Murray also say that the deal will reduce the deficit by $23 billion over the next 10 years. This reduction, however, doesn't start until 2022.

According to a 4-page summary document of the deal obtained by Breitbart News, "[t]he budget proposal saves $28 billion over ten years by requiring the President to sequester the same percentage of mandatory budgetary resources in 2022 and 2023 as will be sequestered in 2021 under current law."

Sen. Landrieu’s first ad claims she made Obama stop lying about people keeping their healthcare plan...

Seriously? Obamacare would never have been passed unless Landrieu took the Louisiana Purchase option and voted it into law. Harry Reid refused to bring her bill up for a vote. As for Obama now honoring his promise, that is a baldfaced lie. His rule changes only delay the lie for a few of those losing their healthcare plans.

When Sen. Landrieu learned that individuals who liked their health insurance could no longer keep it, despite the President’s promise, she wrote legislation to insure that the promise was kept. As a result, the President issued guidance allowing states and insurance companies to renew individual health plans for another year.

Video: 5th Obamacare Navigator fired after James O'Keefe ambush

Great!

Interesting: Capitol Hill staffers told not to trust healthcare exchange information...

Well, doh!

Via The Hill:

Capitol Hill staffers who signed up for ObamaCare through the Washington, D.C., healthcare exchange, called DC Health Link (DCHL), are being told to confirm their enrollments in person, and not to rely on data provided by the website.
The Hill obtained an email sent to staffers on Wednesday warning them, “it is essential that you confirm your coverage in DCHL through the Disbursing Office.”
“Do not rely on your ‘My Account’ page or other correspondence from DCHL,” the email reads.
“Please do not assume you are covered unless you have seen the confirmation letter from the Disbursing Office,” the email continues.
Capitol Hill workers had until Monday to sign up for healthcare in D.C., where members and their staffs are eligible for a generous employer healthcare subsidy from the government.
DC Health Link, the online healthcare portal for the District, has experienced a number of technical issues over the last few weeks.
According to the email obtained by The Hill, those staffers who were not able to enroll because of technical difficulties now have until Dec. 16 to sign up. The extension was granted because of problems with the website.
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Your Volunteer Fire Department is another thing you may not be able to keep under Obamacare...

The more we find out what is in Obamacare; the more we hate it. 

Via FOX Nation:

Volunteer fire departments all across the U.S. could find themselves out of money and unable to operate unless Congress or the Obama Administration exempts them from the Affordable Care Act.
'I thought the kinks were worked out of Obamacare at the first of the month, Central Florida volunteer firefighter Carl Fabrizi told Sunshine State News.
'Man, oh, man, this could potentially destroy some real good companies in Florida.'
The U.S. Department of Labor takes the term 'volunteer' literally, but the IRS says volunteer firefighters are technically employees if they're on the job more than 30 hours per week, making them subject to Obamacare's employee-mandate rules.
Since the Obamacare law doesn't specifically carve out an exemption for them, fire departments where 50 or more people work – either as volunteers or officially as employees – are expected to provide health insurance for every one of them.
In towns with more than one volunteer fire department, all the staffers will likely be lumped together for tax purposes, pushing many municipalities above the 50-worker threshold.
That could cost departments of life-savers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Those that dump their volunteers into the federal insurance exchanges would still have to pay an annual $2,000 fine for each 'employee' after the first 30.