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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on October 10, 2013, 04:43:10 PM
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Daily Mail UK
EXCLUSIVE: Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the website's first week, out of tens of millions of Americans in 36 states
-Obamacare's main signup engine attracted just 6,200 new customers on its launch day and 51,000 after the first week
-At the same rate, the 6-month open enrollment period would sign up just 2 million Americans, including 14 states and D.C., which have their own insurance exchanges
-The Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare needs at least 7 million customers to stay afloat financially
-Numerous Obama administration officials have denied seeing any enrollment figures at all
-MailOnline's sources are two Health and Human Services workers who have access to the data as it's crunched
-Texas congressman says anemic national enrollment numbers are 'roughly the population of a small town in my district'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2452537/Administration-sources-Obamacare-website-received-just-51-000-completed-insurance-applications.html#ixzz2hMUHtZVz
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By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor
PUBLISHED: 14:29 EST, 10 October 2013 | UPDATED: 15:44 EST, 10 October 2013
Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the first week the Healthcare.gov website was online, according to two sources inside the Department of Health and Human Services who gave MailOnline an exclusive look at the earliest enrollment numbers.
The career civil servants, who process data inside the agency, confirmed independently that just 6,200 Americans applied for health insurance through the problem-plagued website on October 1, the day it first opened to the public.
Neither HHS nor the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would comment on the record about the numbers. Enroll America, the president's organization of health care 'navigators' who are charged with helping Americans sign up, didn't reply to a request for information about its level of success so far.
The White House also did not respond to emails seeking comment.
But several administration officials have claimed this month that they didn't have access to the kinds of raw figures MailOnline obtained from the people who work for them. And the anemic totals suggest a far lower level of interest in coverage through the Affordable Care Act than the Obama administration has hoped to see.
Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican who chairs the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, said that 'if the numbers are accurate,' they show 'that relatively few people have navigated the challenges of the first step of the process – roughly the population of a small town in my district.'
'The White House and HHS have continually claimed they did not have these figures,' Brady told MailOnline. 'If they do, they have misled the Congress and the American people.'
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I read somewhere that Hawaii had ZERO people sign up. and my home state of Iowa had just 5 people sign up.
:popcorn: Crash and burn, ACA.
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I read somewhere that Hawaii had ZERO people sign up. and my home state of Iowa had just 5 people sign up.
:popcorn: Crash and burn, ACA.
Um, WRONG. No less of an authority than ED SCHULTZ assures that THERE ARE NO GLITCHES. Don't believe me? Observe:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1i876b0-dk[/youtube]
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I can't wait for tax return season. Those refunds are going to be $95.00 less than they could be. $95.00 can buy a lot of Cheetos.
BTW, DUmbass goons, I am insured through a huge huge huge corporation's gold-plated platinum plan that's never heard of the ACA. In fact, our medical insurance got better this year. Much better. We love it!!
Piss on ObamaCare and it's namesake.
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I can't wait for tax return season. Those refunds are going to be $95.00 less than they could be. $95.00 can buy a lot of Cheetos.
BTW, DUmbass goons, I am insured through a huge huge huge corporation's gold-plated platinum plan that's never heard of the ACA. In fact, our medical insurance got better this year. Much better. We love it!!
Piss on ObamaCare and it's namesake.
Hey, where've you been?
You know you're missed when you're gone.
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Hey, where've you been?
You know you're missed when you're gone.
I read every day. I just don't have too much to add. Everyone is already saying what I am thinking.
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If the DUmmies were to see this, and comment on it, they would totally disregard what they read, saying something the effect of "Pshaw! That rag? Only good for wrapping fish."
The only reportage that the DUmmies give credence to is that which says something their whole hive agrees with.
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Obama said 30,000,000 Americans needed insurance.
51,000 in 1 week
So we only need 588 weeks -- just over 10 years-- to get them all enrolled.
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Obama said 30,000,000 Americans needed insurance.
51,000 in 1 week
So we only need 588 weeks -- just over 10 years-- to get them all enrolled.
My understanding is that it is just 51,000 applicants. There is no guarantee that any or all of them will choose to sign up. They've just been "approved".
Assuming every person out of the 51,000 actually followed through and signed up, then yes, we're only 10 years or so away!
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My understanding is that it is just 51,000 applicants. There is no guarantee that any or all of them will choose to sign up. They've just been "approved".
Assuming every person out of the 51,000 actually followed through and signed up, then yes, we're only 10 years or so away!
WOW !! Thats only what, eight or nine business weeks ?