Coming from the
Daily News, this is . . . interesting.
www.aHugeMess.com
404s all around.When New York’s Obamacare website opened for business on Oct. 1, officials announced that it was flooded with 10 million hits — which was seen as a harbinger of massive demand.
Two-and-half weeks later, a more sobering picture emerges from a fog of secrecy. As of Friday, zero people were fully enrolled in a health plan through the site.
Here’s the breakdown on the operation:
Of the millions who have visited NYStateofHealth.ny.gov, 134,000 have finished identity, income and citizenship verifications, learned what tax credits they qualify for and begun to shop.
A smaller number of those 134,000 registrants have picked a plan and committed to paying premiums — though how much smaller is a mystery. Thousands, is all that New York exchange director Donna Frescatore would say.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/www-ahugemess-article-1.1490135#ixzz2iAQaylSnThe next paragraph has the money quote, at the above link.
This is a state that set up its own exchange. A
'progressive' state.
What a train wreck.
