Reason #2: Obamacare Bonuses For Failed System And Cost Increases
Stop The Incompetence. Stop Mark Dayton.
Democrat Mark Dayton fully embraced Obamacare, creating an expensive and broken exchange known as MNsure. The rollout of MNsure was a disaster; the $155 million website was broken when it launched, and it has caused health insurance premiums to skyrocket. Dayton deceived the public about the problems, and on top of it all, MNsure managers received bonuses in spite of the failures.
Reason #2: Obamacare bonuses for failed system and cost increases
Dayton’s administration needs to take responsibility. His only answer? In the debate last Friday, he said they are “working around the clock” to make sure MNsure is ready for the upcoming November 15th open enrollment period. (Almanac, 10/31/14)
Seriously, after 18 months and now up to $189 million dollars, the website still doesn’t work right, so people have to work around the clock? That is mismanagement and incompetence on a scale we can’t allow to continue.
- Obamacare executives were given bonuses for their broken website. “As the state rolled out its troubled health insurance exchange, MNsure managers received bonus pay totaling $26,354 for work done in the three months leading up to the Oct. 1launch.” (Star Tribune, 1/30/14)
- Mark Dayton hid MNsure’s problems from the public. On September 19th, 2013 Mark Dayton was informed of MNsure’s broken website. Then on October 22nd, 2013 Dayton tried to hide it with a statement claiming MNsure was performing “phenomenally well.” (WCCO, 10/22/13)
- Dayton’s administration created a broken Obamacare website, increasing the cost of health insurance for Minnesotans. Dayton’s health insurance rate increase was “misleading” and it is much higher than he reports. In fact, “the vast majority of MNsure clients should expect a rate increase anywhere from 8 to 43 percent.” (KSTP, 10/8/14)
The absolute height of the incompetence? Through all of this, Mark Dayton has not proposed one single fix to the MNsure program. Not one.