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• Some people, I am not mentioning who, needs to just grow up and stop acting so childish.
• I will celebrate the holiday season for the simple reason that God's amazing grace has brought me through another year.
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Rev. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, PO Box 831313, Ocala, FL 34483. He lives with his wife, Martha, in Silver Springs Shores. Call him at 1-866-552-2543 or e-mail jamessnyder2@att.net. His web site is www.jamessnyderministries.com.

• Since the new healthcare exchanges opened on October 1, my office has received dozens of calls and letters from South Dakota families who are seeing their premiums skyrocket.   Some of the South Dakotans calling into our office have explained that even when their plans were grandfathered in, their premiums were not.
• One family had to triple their deductable from $2,500 to $7,500 in order to get premiums down to where they were before Obamacare.  That's just not acceptable and in many cases it's not affordable either.
• We learned earlier this month that just 27,000 Americans signed up for coverage on Healthcare.gov between October 1 and November 1.  Just 58 of those individuals were South Dakotans.  Much of the blame for low enrollment numbers has been placed on website glitches, but as the President has said on many occasions, the Affordable Care Act is more than a website and I agree.
• Even in states that ran their own exchanges and had a working sign-up website, enrollment was low.  Just over 75,000 enrollees entered the program in these states, falling well below expectations.
• The poor enrollment is more than a communications problem for the administration.  It is also a fundamental problem for the program.  The healthcare exchanges were designed with an understanding that large amounts of young, healthy people needed to sign up in order to balance out the costs of older and less healthy indi

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