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Obamacare's Success In Enrollment Numbers: 6 People By End Of Day One; 248 By Day Two
It is now clear why according to the Obama administration there were no glitches plaguing the Healthcare.gov website administering Obamacare: because a whopping six people managed to sign up on the first day it was launched - the same day the government proudly reported previously it had received 4.7 million unique visitors - a conversion factor of, well, Div/0. By the end of the second day: 248 happy participants in a socialized healthcare ponzi scheme. It is also clear why there was nobody happier than the president when the republican party decided to shut down government on the same day as Obamacare was rolled out: because if public attention had focused on the absolute and now confirmed, disaster that the healthcare law's rollout had been, then everyone, not just the Tea Party, would be demanding a substantial delay in Obamacare.
The enrollment data comes even after the Obama administration has said it cannot provide enrollment figures from HealthCare.gov because it doesn't have the numbers. "We do not have any reliable data around enrollment, which is why we haven't given it to date," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told lawmakers on Wednesday. Turns out she did - as Reuters and ABC report, the documents, which are labeled "war room" notes and appear to be summaries of issues with the problematic website beginning on October 2, indicate a mere six enrollments had occurred by that morning - the day after the website was launched and almost immediately crashed.
You can read the documents HERE, HERE and HERE.
So how is Obamacare like Facebook, or any other dot com special du jour - only the pageviews matter. Actual user conversions... well, that's another matter entirely.
To date, Obama administration officials have refused to publicly provide any estimate of successful enrollments, though they have said the site received 4.7 million unique visitors on its first day and has now generated more than 700,000 applications.
An internal administration memo obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by ABC News revealed that the administration projected half a million successful sign-ups by Oct. 31.
Good luck with that. And we mean it: after all like any authentic Ponzi scheme, Obamacare works only if wave after wave of signs up "foot" the costs for everyone who doesn't. As such, unless massive amounts of people enroll, the program is assued to be a failure. Pardon: even more of a failure than it is now.
Naturally, the government was quick to downplay the figures:
HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters stressed tonight that the enrollment figures presented in the “war room notes” are unofficial figures. The agency has said it intends to release its first official report on enrollments by mid-November.
“We will release enrollment statistics on a monthly basis after coordinating information from different sources such as paper, on-line, and call centers, verifying with insurers, and collecting data from states,” she said.
It gets better. Because after finally admitting there is nobody quite capable of messing something, anything, quite like the government, the administration finally agreed to get private sector help. In this case Oracel and... Google - the same firm that it was revealed earlier this week was furious at the government's spying agency for illegally tapping its confidential user data streams.
The Obama administration said it has brought in experts from top technology companies including Google Inc and Oracle Corp to fix the HealthCare.gov website, as Republicans press for details about the botched October 1 launch.
Health and Human Services said it had added dozens of technology experts and engineers to its round-the-clock effort to fix the technical glitches on the site that is key to the implementation of Obama's healthcare restructuring law.
Giving some of the first details of who might be leading the tech fix, HHS officials identified two experts by name: Michael Dickerson, a website reliability engineer on leave from Google, and Greg Gershman, a Baltimore-based innovation director with the firm Mobomo and who previously worked for the White House and the General Services Administration.
"We are doing everything we can to assist those contractors to make HealthCare.gov a highly performant, highly reliable, highly secure system," Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Thursday in Redwood City, California. There was no comment from Google.
No need for a comment: the NSA already knew what they would say.
Finally, get your popcron because Darrell Issa is preparing to make a super spectacle out of the Obamacare flub, after yesterday he subpoenaed Sebelius, who previously took full responsibility for the "debacle", for more information.
Issa said he had subpoenaed Sebelius for more information on the website's technical problems, including how it was tested, and enrollment data. The subpoena requires the documents to be produced by November 13.
"The evidence is mounting that the website did not go through proper testing, including critical security testing, and that the administration ignored repeated warnings from contractors about ongoing problems," Issa said in a statement.
Needless to say, this is all a short-term distraction: sooner or later the website will be fixed. It is only then that all those people who still have no idea what a complete disaster Obamacare is and will be for the US economy, will finally get the long overdue rude awakening.
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John Galt is a character in a fairy tale.
Nobody's going galt in real life.
I really wish people would stop calling it 'socialized medicine' it isn't! If it were it would cost half as much and only citizens and legal immigrants would be covered. Look at the rest of the OECD, my insurance costs $61/mnth for total coverage.
This un-ACA is merely the continuation of an obscenly profitable and extremly dysfunctional system.
Lol. You know the EU is literally falling apart right? I mean we're talking 58 percent UE rates 18-25. Broke as shit and now neo nazi parties forming in Greece (the economy is THAT bad) . Deposits and pensions being confiscated. Any idea how much gets taken out in taxes for "free healthcare" Nigga puhlease, that is what you WANT? Fuck
You Americans have been so propagandized about universal care you can't even do simple math. The OECD on average pays ~8% of GDP for h/c, the US currently pays 16% and with the ACA will pay 24% by 2015 (say some).
Knee jerk much? Nigga?
The great Obama Revival came to town. The stadium for a million was rented. Millions of cases of Barack's Snake oil were delivered. The flyers were posted everywhere. And with the choir within the stadium singing halleluiahs, only six entered and were saved. Their god's salvation was rejected. The mighty Obama has stuck out
Based on this, the gov numbers will show 40x daily growth projected out
The Day ObamaCare Died - American Pie Parody
While that parody is amusing, I don't think we have any hope of seeing this monster die.
one concern i don't hear being voiced is the bloomberg type steps the .gov will take now that they are on the hook for our medical treatment. limiting how much we can eat, drink, mandating exercise, fucking food poice coming to my house to make sure i'm not eating too much bacon or sweets. it sounds paranoid to write out like this but i don't put anything past these lunatics.
My dog ate it. HA!
What saddens me the most about this is how quickly the American public has sat on both their hands and their reasoning abilities while the debate has been shifted at breakneck speed from:
"Why should every American have health insurance?" to
"Why should the government be the provider of said insurance?" to
"What have you - the supposed opposition party - proposed to provide insurance to everyone? to
"What are you going to do to fix the computer system and how quickly can you get the government to provide insurance to all Americans?"
WHAT...A...FUCKING...JOKE
What else to expect when the "debate" was crafted by the duopoly. The public is not permitted to hear truly dissenting views. No differerently than when the Presidential "Debate" hosts get to decide exactly who stands behind the podiums.
Freedom of the press is only free to those who have a fucking press, and considering that 95% of what you hear or see is consolidated into the hands of 5 corporations (who by cohencidence are owned and kontrolled by the same incesuous groups of satanic sociopaths), it should come as no surprise that you are spoonfed only the pablum that concentrates their kontrol even further.
Here in OH the duopoly passed a bill that effectively shuts out 3rd parties and genuine dissension permanently. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/ohio-senate-passes-new-third-party-ballot-rules-despite-concerns-from-libertarian-and-green-parties
In Nov when you "pull the lever" take a look up and down the ballot. How many names do you see that do not have a (D) or an (R) behind their names? Having one of those is just one more mark of the beast. Go Team Red! Go Team Blue! Yeah, right. The halfwits are polarized 24/7 on sham debates and issues while the end result is the same.
Obama committed to taking $500B out of healthcare spending in the first 10 yrs of his plan. My guess is rather than a loss of $500B in GDP we'll see an increase of $1.5T over 10 years. See! It's good for the economy!
Entire headline IRRELEVANT.
It doesn't matter how many people signed up on day one, or two or even the first month. Get over it, Tyler. Single payer is coming to 'Merica! and it's a good thing. Why waste such a huge portion of our GDP on paper pushing and get worse results than other OECD countries in return? The only ones crying about this are insurance companies and people who have been duped by the "SOSHULISM=BAD" crowd.
Not even Oracle can "fix" Socialism.
I got a simple fix, since Congress lets the Fed run the show, Congress can come up with some mealy-mouthed mumbo jumbo about "health care'' being essential to a "healthy economy" and then citing the Commerce Clause they can then add a third mission to the Fed's two current mandate: affordable health care for all.
Then, no matter what it takes, Janet Yellen will be able to print up as much as they need.
In Ohio, small biz, no health plan. However our asst and I have indvidual high deductible plans that renew in December. Our options were to renew the current plans for one additional year, which we both opted to do. Effective 2015, well be forced to change to an Obamacare compliant plan. We could've opted to go that route now, but after reviewing the costs it wasn't wise. In my case, the premium would've jumped 70 bucks per mo and deductible increased by 500 to 6000 (oh and my network would change, providers changed and Rx change). Hmmm, yes sign me up for that. Hell, I never use my insurance, in fact I've only spent 130 of my deductible for this current contract year.
For amusement, I went to the exchange, Ohio elected to use .govs and got as far as entering in my data to get a list of monthly premium quotes for each plan level (bronze to gold). I found a few plans in the bronze tier that were equal to or less than my current monthly premium, but beyond a generic 60% "this is what you'll have to cover" no other details. The next step is to apply, so you can get an actual quote and I assume get full coverage info. However, this part was naturally not working. Quelle surprise! The insurance companies were provided deadlines they conveyed to policy holders, in my asst's case nov 15, in which a coverage election must be made. While talking to the insurance co I mentioned it's a little ridiculous one has to elect coverage, but are unable to make a complete anaylisis to make a decision since the freakin application system is not working and god knows when it actually will, the retort "the govt mandated the date, we have no control of the deadline nor the exchange website."
No shart, Sherlock. At any rate, my asst probably qualifies for a subsidy based on her adjusted gross income, which the insurance company estimated (using the same tool linked on obamacares site) to be about 170 per month. Interestingly the IRS will sort that out via tax return. If she overestimates her subsidy she repays when filing her 2014 return or gets a refund if she underestimates. The tool used to calculate the subsidy came up with an annual premium in the silver plan tier that was far more expensive than any plan preimum displayed on the quote tool. Thus, I question the validity of the subsidy calculator!
Suffice to say, we shall keep our bloated current plans for another year taking the obligatory annual rate increase. When 2015 rolls around, I'm uber confident we'll find affordable replacement coverage based on the successful enrollments thus far. Not to mention the fact that nearly all said enrollments will most certainly comprise the young/healthy citizens of this great nation.
What a joke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZI5t7w2U5g